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what way to point dish

  • 08-10-2008 11:37pm
    #1
    fatboymsport
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭


    hi all

    i am getting sky installed in the next few days and i am running the cables for the dish myself to save sky drilling holes all over my new house.

    what i need to know is the direction that the dish points in deg's if possible there are a few english sites but as we dont have post codes the are no use

    thaks


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  • #2
    biologikal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭biologikal


    Try www.dishpointer.com. It lets you select a satellite (28.2E in your case) and zoom in on your house using google maps, and it will give you the direction on the map, and the elevation and azimuth degrees you require (and also the LNB skew and a line of sight checker). Asking for the degrees is going to be fruitless, as it depends on your location.


  • #3
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    Aligning a dish from some values you have written down is going to be nigh on impossible ....a frustrating job at best.

    Your installer could just put the dish up for you and just leave you the job of connecting cables , why not do it that way ? He will have a meter for the job and it will take him no more than 20 minutes.

    Otherwise you going to need a meter of some sort , there are various ones available here.

    http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=satellite%20meter&source=15

    If you insist on mounting the dish and LNB yourself , then you should get one of those meters. Otherwise its going to be a long day , and your signal quality will always be suspect.

    Edit: Also , drip loops are very important , as your going to be bringing the cables in yourself I thought I'd mention that , just in case !


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭John mac


    south east is prob what you want to know.



    Try www.dishpointer.com. .

    but this is a great link.:D


  • #5
    fatboymsport
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭fatboymsport


    thanks for the replys the sky man will be installing the dish i just needed to know roughly what direction it would be pointing


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