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How to read the elevation of a dish with no degree measurements shown on the bracket?

  • 11-11-2012 11:43pm
    #1
    FREETV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭


    I was offered and I gladly received a very large satellite dish a few weeks back and I was trying to get reception this afternoon of Badr 4 and Badr 5 satellites at 26 degrees East near Balbriggan. The elevation angle is approx 22.1 degrees here, however there is no scale of measurement for the elevation in degrees for the elevation bracket. What do I do? Never had a problem aligning up to a 90CM, dish before, this offset one must be double that size. Should I measure another smaller dishes elevation bracket degrees separation and compare it to the bigger dish and make the necessary distance calculations and plot them on a strip of paper that divides out the larger nut slide on the huge dish? :o:) The elevation hex bolts heads on the inside also seem next to impossible to reach to stop from moving when trying to tighten the nuts on the outside as the huge U bolts are in the way. Stupid design. :(
    The pole/ pipe supplied is only five and a half feet from the ground and there is a wall of three feet high several feet away. Is the dish high enough to receive the signal? Any suggestions or help please? :)


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  • #2
    swoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭swoofer


    its actually harder to align a big dish! your best bet is align it on 28east first and then move it ever so slowly to the right, its only a smidgin. use MBC or such like to get 26. Once you have MBC at least you know you are pointing in the right area. the rest of 26 is hard to get in ireland.

    how big is the dish and the make?


  • #3
    FREETV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭FREETV


    GBCULLEN wrote: »
    its actually harder to align a big dish! your best bet is align it on 28east first and then move it ever so slowly to the right, its only a smidgin. use MBC or such like to get 26. Once you have MBC at least you know you are pointing in the right area. the rest of 26 is hard to get in ireland.

    how big is the dish and the make?
    I was told that it was 2.15M in diameter but I will measure it later, probably more like a 1.8 metre dish, I got it off a nice Lithuanian Man for free, just gave him 20 for petrol, he who no longer required it he said as his channels moved to a satellite unreceivable now in Ireland and he doesn't know how to align it. I tried earlier, no luck, I will move the barrel, pole and dish further back and more to the right tomorrow morning, my head was wrecked earlier. No make on the dish and the back of the dish is galvanised and has a different type of elevation bracket. I was confused as a result when trying to use the Inclinometer. I tried 28 E earlier but could receive nothing, there is an old farm building with a fifteen feet high roof, twenty or so feet away towards the left. The cable is fine, I had the main MBC transponder stored but no signal quality yet. There were a few dents on the dish but they levelled out easily when I used my Karate chop and a rubber mallet. I will respray the dish if I can get it to work. :D


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