How to read and adjustelevation for 26E when no measurements shown on the bracket?

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I was offered and I gladly received a very large satellite dish a few weeks back and I am 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? 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?

Peter Rhea

You could make an inclinometer (or buy 1, for that matter). You won't get Badr 5 (or 6), unless you have a dish the size of a house.

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Peter Rhea wrote: »

You could make an inclinometer (or buy 1, for that matter). You won't get Badr 5 (or 6), unless you have a dish the size of a house.

Thanks, I have heard of the device before and knew of it because of the term inclination angle but the link you have given me is exactly what I need as I wanted to try to make one rather than wait to buy one. Thanks Peter Rhea, I will try it today at some stage. Fingers crossed for Badr 4

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As the dish seems to be a 22 degree offset type, lnb arm is bolted on to the bottom of the dish below will the pole of around five and a half feet high which the dish is mounted on be sufficiently high to receive Badr 4?

excollier

One way to do it is to find 28.2e and then you will be very close to 26e, then you will need to raise it fractionally, and from behind the dish, move it incrementally to the right, but only slightly. It will be tricky with a large dish, even one of those really cheap squealer meters would be better than total guesswork.
The wall shouldn't be a problem.

Peter Rhea

FREETV wrote: »

As the dish seems to be a 22 degree offset type, lnb arm is bolted on to the bottom of the dish below will the pole of around five and a half feet high which the dish is mounted on be sufficiently high to receive Badr 4?

How far is the bottom of the dish below the top of the wall & how far back from the wall?

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Peter Rhea wrote: »

How far is the bottom of the dish below the top of the wall & how far back from the wall?

The bottom of the dish is about foot and a half approximately from the ground and about six to seven feet back from the wall. It is mounted in a steel oil barrel with four bags of ballast so far mixed with cement in the ratio of four trowels of all in one ballast to one trowel of cement and water. It is rock hard. It will be difficult to move the dish and barrel further back from the wall but I could try with all my might. I will bend the top rim part of the barrel backwards with vice grips and use a hammer also, I have an old towel around the top rim of the barrel protecting the paint work of the back of dish, no damage to it yet. I would have to get a four inch hollow pipe or short pole of steel in order to raise it higher or make a mount out of a cast filled with concrete.

Peter Rhea

Assuming the ground level doesn't fall from the wall to the dish mounting, the wall won't be causing problems for 26 east reception.

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Peter Rhea wrote: »

Assuming the ground level doesn't fall from the wall to the dish mounting, the wall won't be causing problems for 26 east reception.

Thanks Peter, I will give it a lash as they say.