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Subject: Re: sat. set up problems...

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Date Posted: 05:20:34 12/10/03 Wed
In reply to: peter murphy 's message, "Re: sat. set up problems..." on 03:12:43 12/09/03 Tue

>I tried the dish in all the positions betwen south and
>east and only on one position, I get a sat finder
>audible signal ( it is around south south east) but my
>problem is that the grundig receiver doesn't show any
>kind of response in the signal strenght screen it just
>says " no signal being received".So I'm working
>"blind".
>I understood that the grundig should give a reading
>even if the dish isn't pointing at a satellite.

If you're just swinging the dish round(horizontally)then you should only find one satellite. You need to change the elevation for each satellite specifically. So if you've got the wrong elevation you'll find the wrong satellite. So unless you've got very accurate instrumentation for measuring elevation there's a good chance of picking up a another sat. The scales on dish mounts are pretty crude and only very small differences are required to pick another satellite nearby.

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