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Find a satellite by line of sight

  • 16-09-2015 3:17pm
    #1
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering is it possible to find a satellite by line of sight, there a was a dish on the house when I moved in, today I realized it was pointing wrong direction with help from a satfinder website using line of sight on google maps.

    I'm still trying to search and finding nothing


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  • #2
    MBSnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    levitronix wrote: »
    Just wondering is it possible to find a satellite by line of sight, there a was a dish on the house when I moved in, today I realized it was pointing wrong direction with help from a satfinder website using line of sight on google maps.

    I'm still trying to search and finding nothing

    Yes - I do it fairly regularly with a 2nd sat dish I have on a scaffold pole concreted in a bucket (would you believe). I used Dishpointer.com to get the elevation and skew angle, plus an idea of what to point it at. I'm in a rural location and luckily have a good view to the horizon, so can be fairly sure of getting it close 1st go. Also my dish has degree's marked on the back of it to aid lining up.

    It's tricky though if you're up a ladder....


  • #3
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    Can be done by hand but takes a bit of skill and to be precise you need a meter to messure signal and noise ratio. Also its possible the dish that was on your premises was pointing to another satellite and may not work for Astra 2 in the location its currently in..


  • #4
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    If you had a pretuned box it would be easier.


  • #5
    Vic_08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    It was much easier with analogue, never bothered with a meter then.

    Can't see why anyone would bother now, meters are hardly a big financial outlay.


  • #6
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    If you had a pretuned box it would be easier.

    I have a pci e tuner card in a pc


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  • #7
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    A sat meter is very handy. I used it a couple of weeks back to put up a dish.

    If you search "How to Setup & Align a Satellite Dish for Sky / Freesat" on youtube the website freetv.ie has put up a great instructional video on how to do it.

    You don't need the sat meter but it makes the job so much quicker and easier!


  • #8
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    Well today I managed to get it dialled in, just by line of sight, but once I had the signal I was able to dial it in better checking the signal strength in media portal

    but yeah I meter would of helped and saved some time but didn't want to spend any money because the dish was on the house when I moved in and bracket on the LNB was damaged but just needed a new screw.


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