struggling setting up 1.1 metre dish

make sure the pole is 100% plumb
before mounting the motor
use your receiver to drive the motor to 0
mount the dish on the motor arm perfectly square
then mount the dish and the motor onto the pole
use 11862H 28000 BBC World for thor

Regards
jcl

Quote from pgtips

the lnb is a black inverto twin
box a vu duo

What dish is it m8

Do you have any kind of meter ?

Can you see the tv screen from the dish position ?

What is your longitude ? roughly ?

If you are struggling, try and find 28.2e first. Before you drive the dish from zero the dish should sit vertical (almost).

Send the dish to 28.2e, then try East/West and when thats peaked peak the elevation. If you still have problems consider checking your cables, connetions, lnb, reciever settings and then reciever.

You dont need to have marking on the side of the dish, never used them never had too.

Also as discussed upload a pic of the back of the dish.

its nothing to do with cable mate your just out of alignment !

if you have got dish on motor all correctly and straight + not changed any settings all you need to do is
1st
select 28.2 east and let motor drive to that position !
2and align dish by moving motor left right + dish elevation up and down (all very slowly) and line it up to 28.2e using duo meter if poss !
once you get it aligned tightenup slowly and check arc !

Your almost there m8

just drive motor to astra2 = 28.2
align dish Azimuth(left & right) by moving motor
align dish elevation (up & down)
Peak signal on 28.2
tighten up ! check arc !
Do it all slowly and you will get it !

In my opinion ou shouldn't have loosend motor then you would have only needed to adjust elevation on dish as the rest was set !
Doesn't matter now anyhowz cos you'll probably line it up better this way

you should only need to adjust dish elevation (up and down) not the motor ! Only move the motor left and right !
Bring on the morning !

Also the bigger the dish the more accurate your setting up has to be - the bigger the dish the narrower is the dish acceptance angle. Good luck.

28.2 east 10714H 22000 Film-4 - channel 5 gives me 100%

Quote from pgtips

tweak the motor left and right ! AND up and down on the dish

Just do it all slowly m8 ! especially if your using the Vu's signal meter ! Slow and sure ! Good Luck :confident:

Ill throw my 10 pence worth in, i set the motor to 0 , them mounted up on pole to face true south and the dish perfectly square to the motor arm using a decent compass, then move to 0.8 and with a sat meter adjusted to the highest whistle and checked the signal on the vu+ (2 people is easier) , once done tightened all up (while still checking meter and signal) and if all that stays the same the arc should be perfect as long as the pole is level Maybe i was just lucky? , I get 57% signal from thor @ 53N , 3W so cant be far from you , My dish is an orbital 1m + Black Lnb. When i had issues was setting the dish up on the motor to 28.2 is ok but if its not square to the 0 point of the motor and you adjust you can miss the arc at either end of the turn (eg 30w)

Hello pgtips
if you look at my post #2 this is by far the easiest way to set it up.
if you are using usals, written on the side of your motor it should say latitude.
set this to number 53 a couple of notches below 55 make sure the little arrow is
spot on 53. make sure the motor has been driven to 0. make sure the dish is in line with
the motor arm. in other words if you are stood behind the motor looking at the back of the dish your lnb should be in
line with the centre of the motor arm. use a compass to mark the pole with exact true south.put the
motor and dish on the pole and centralise the motor exactly in the middle of your mark
on the pole. now to find the satellite 0.8west move the dish up and down slowly until you get a signal.
if you do not get a signal then your motor and dish are not set as stated above.
good luck
jcll