Latitude value on motorized dish

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  • Hello dear friends, I have a question about installing a motorized dish. If the value in my area is latitude 51.60. What number should I put on the frame of the rotating dish motor for the value latitude so that it is without problems? Should I put 51 or 51.6 or 52 ? Which of these numbers should I put? I would appreciate your help.

  • Exactly 51.6
    But keep in mind that if, like me, the motor support is made of 1 - 1.5 mm galvanized sheet metal, you will have to set this value by approximation on a graduated scale that if it goes well shows you only the degrees.
    The advice is not to tighten the screws to allow you to make slight corrections during the antenna start-up phase and to tighten them well only after having verified that everything is ok

  • Hello dear friends, I have a question about installing a motorized dish. If the value in my area is latitude 51.60. What number should I put on the frame of the rotating dish motor for the value latitude so that it is without problems? Should I put 51 or 51.6 or 52 ? Which of these numbers should I put? I would appreciate your help.

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    Hi Bayernstar
    
    Here in Cologne, I set it to 50.9, not a rounded up or down number
    I have a rod motor and to set it correctly you don't have to set it to 0° south but to 7° East south, that means Astra 19.2° is 12.2° from Cologne, remember that the absolute 0° point is in Greenwich, England and from there Astra is 19.2°, that means Astra would be positioned at 12.2° from Cologne, so you have to added 7° from the motor
    I have set my motor to exactly 7° east as the center
    From my perspective Hispasat would not be at 33° but at 40° west
    Greenwich 0° hispasat 33° W , cologne 7° E , that is 33+7= 40 , Astra19,2 that is 19,2-7= 12,2
    This means that if you set Cologne as 0° south and then 19.2° on your antenna, you would actually be at 26.2° east

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