Fc-90, with rotor sat hh90?

[fishtj]

Could someone please help me out with thus setup. Never had to set-up one with a motor, from what I've read, you have to point it to the due souther sat, what would that be for me, zipcode-72462. Ant help would greatly be addreciated. Thank you...

[JimMrBass]

Here are a couple of sites you might be interested in

http://www.dishpointer.com/

http://www.lyngsat.com

[Gary Gnu]

If you are using USALS to control the motor, you set the dish to your true south.

If using Diseqc control you can just aim the dish to the closest sat to your longitude.
Myself I prefer diseqc control because you are able to fine tune east/west

Most importantly, you need to make sure your mast is completely level all the way around or you will have issues with the weaker linear sats...etc

[dishdigger]

"If you are using USALS to control the motor, you set the dish to your true south.
If using Diseqc control you can just aim the dish to the closest sat to your longitude. "
Which is, of course the definition of the true south satellite.

Your true south bird is 91W, Galaxy 17 . I'd use tp 12050 V 13354 as the default on the screen while I was tuning.
The basic initial setup for a motorized system is as follows:

1. On the motor scale, set the latitude of your location.

2. On the dish elevation scale, set the elevation determined by your motor manual calculations, ( sometimes furnished by a web site calculator ) .

For example, My motor , an HH90 is set to 43 degrees, because my latitude is 42.7 degrees.

The dish elevation setting for my location is 38.4 degrees, so that's my starting point on the dish scale.


Now, with the motor "loosely " attached to the perfectly plumb mast, the entire assembly is pointed as close to true south as I can determine. The motor is snugged in place to the mast and I start up the TV and receiver. Using USALS mode, I enter my latitude and longitude into the "set location" menu area. Now the receiver knows its precise location.

I select the southernmost satellite to my position and set it up in the antenna menu screen with a strong active transponder. In my case, that in ***** 2 @ 82 degrees.

The motor moved just slightly to it's 82 degrees position . Now that the reciever "thinks" it is pointed to Nimiq2, I have to loosen the motor mounting nuts until I can barely turn the whole assembly east and west, a tiny bit at a time, while watching the quality indicator on the receiver. When I have the best quality I can get this way, I tighten down the bolts on the motor again.

The next adjustment is to slowly change the dish elevation setting, to get even more quality. Move only 1 degree at a time, and allow time for the receiver to respond to the new location. Once you've optimized that signal , you should be done. Tighten everything down solidly .

Setup a western satellite and have the receiver go to it. The motor should go there, and your quality should be good. The same is true of eastern satellites.

In your case, use the tp above on Galaxy 17 and make small movements allowing the receiver to catch up , and you should nail it just fine.

[fishtj]

Thank you dishdigger, but I'm still not really sure about things. How can I use the SF-90 950-2250MHz satellite finder to set it up, would it not be easier?

[dishdigger]

No it's much easier to setup a motorized dish with a small tv and your receiver out the dish. Those little sat finders can help tune a fixed dish, and maybe even optimize your signal on a motorized setup, but it won't tell you what sat you're picking up and optimizing. The best tool you have is your own receiver and it's quality meter for optimizing the signal.