info correct installation and configuration of the motorized dish

Your quality of signals are good , but must be better on 16 E. Try to up elevation of your dish and check frequency 11554 V 30000.

This frequency is the strongest on this satellite. Signal must be near 100% , with my dish 85 is about 97 - 99 %.

He does not want to align to 0.8W!

He wants to align it with his southmost sat.

Think about it like this: Someone in Asia or Americas wont even see 0.8W.

0.0 degrees does not equate to 0 on the motor. The software sets 0 at his centre, which looks to be 16.0E.

This is how USALS works

Go here. Put the marker where your dish is. Go through the sats and see which is most south. I think it will be 16.0E.

Whatever has most straight line on map is your centre.

It doesn't matter what you use, you just need to figure out which is the highest sat in your arc.

So 17E is your centre/southmost/highest sat.

While I think 17E is technically your centre, can you actually view it? If you cant, you pick the next closest one.

Southmost = most south direction

Highest = the highest sat in the sky

Amos 17 at 17.0°E - LyngSat

I made this to show the importance of setting your middle.

This image is rotated 1 degree around the 0.0E point...

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See how there is the same error at both ends of the arc where they don't line up?

But if I rotate around 42E the error becomes much more serious on the right side of the arc...

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Remember this is just 1 degree of error. This is why it is important to get the centre for your location.

They are supposed to be blurry to show the error.

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Quote from Chris230291

I made this to show the importance of setting your middle.

This image is rotated 1 degree around the 0.0E point...

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See how there is the same error at both ends of the arc where they don't line up?

But if I rotate around 42E the error becomes much more serious on the right side of the arc...

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Remember this is just 1 degree of error. This is why it is important to get the centre for your location.

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All images are blurry and blurry, nothing can be read

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That's the point!

Nobody is going to align their dish perfectly.

Its better to align to your centre because then everything within ~40 degrees either side is likely going to be acceptable.

Forget Amos 17 E. This satellite is for Western Africa and cannot be watched in Europe. For you is Eutelsat 16 E. I will quoted here

what I found on one forum on my language. Copied and translated for better understandig how to adjust motorized dish.

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The simplest way is to enter usals parameters into the receiver. switch to a manual and then turn the whole system manually until you get a signal. then just fine-tune the elevation of the antenna and charge the maximum signal you can - check the end satellites and it should work.

- set the engine to 0,

- mount it on the antenna so that it stands directly behind it when you look from behind, neither to the left nor to the right.

Tighten those antenna screws that hold the motor all the way. You don't touch them after that.

- after that, put everything together on the vertical column 100% vertical, and lightly tighten the screws on the column just so that the plate stands.

- after that, type in the usual coordinates in the receiver and save,

- when you have saved usals coordinates, click on one channel with 16.0E satellite, find a weaker one,

- when you chose that, the motor will rotate a little to one side and when it stops, then the whole system moves together (antenna and motor together) and gets the best signal, that means by moving the whole system around the pole and adjusting the elevation of the dish itself, you get a signal,

Also, when you find the strongest signal, the life of the motor on the pole itself begins to shorten,

- be careful, because just by tightening the screws, the signal also varies, so follow it,

- when it reaches the maximum of 16.0E, then turn the engine to say 3W, 7W and 30W in the west and 54.9E and 70.5E and check the signal there.

So you adjust it in 3 points.

- center

- the far east

- far west

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