aiming my upgrade dish for Expressvu

[Cracker Jack]

I'm having so much problem aiming my dish to get it to work with both
satellites. I just bought a 6020 system. I live in San Francisco and
had my old dish with the 4700 working fine. I can get some signal for
the 91 sat, it varies between 55 and 75 but disappears after a while.
I cannot get any signal on the 82 sat. Can anyone help me out here
and tell me what I'm doing wrong? The instructions from Bell are bad
and only talk about aiming at the 91. Are we not to aim at the 82?
I've skewed the dish, but not sure which way is the right way! help!

Thanks

CJ

[Roger Moncrief]

CJ,

I recently added to my capability and had to aim for the 82 sat. I used
2 dishes and an SW44 since I have 3 receivers. The 82 sat was very, very
hard to locate. Many of the transponders don't work. By trial and error
I eventually discovered that transponder 20 was OK but most are
extremely weak. I have personally installed many, many DSS systems and
have never had such a hard time locating a satellite.

I also learned that where the SW44 is concerned, the 82 sat needs to go
into the sat 1 inputs and the 91 needs to go into the sat 2 inputs. I'm
afraid I can't help you any with the skew business. You might check out
http://ekb.dbstalk.com/. That's the Echostar Knowledge Base. They make
ExpressVu gear and use the skew feature of their antenna so, if you dig
around, you may find something useful.

Hope this helps.


Roger

Post by Cracker Jack
I'm having so much problem aiming my dish to get it to work with both
satellites. I just bought a 6020 system. I live in San Francisco and
had my old dish with the 4700 working fine. I can get some signal for
the 91 sat, it varies between 55 and 75 but disappears after a while.
I cannot get any signal on the 82 sat. Can anyone help me out here
and tell me what I'm doing wrong? The instructions from Bell are bad
and only talk about aiming at the 91. Are we not to aim at the 82?
I've skewed the dish, but not sure which way is the right way! help!
Thanks
CJ

[Observer]

Post by Cracker Jack
I'm having so much problem aiming my dish to get it to work with both
satellites. I just bought a 6020 system. I live in San Francisco and
had my old dish with the 4700 working fine. I can get some signal for
the 91 sat, it varies between 55 and 75 but disappears after a while.
I cannot get any signal on the 82 sat. Can anyone help me out here
and tell me what I'm doing wrong? The instructions from Bell are bad
and only talk about aiming at the 91. Are we not to aim at the 82?
I've skewed the dish, but not sure which way is the right way! help!
Thanks
CJ

An aiming site, http://www3.telus.net/rampage/skew.htm , gives these results
for aiming a Dish500 type antenna to the two Nimiq satellites from San
Francisco:

Azimuth = 130.4 deg True (about 117 to 118 deg magnetic)
Elevation = 32.4 deg
Skew = 57.8

The sites calls itself a beta site, read the comments there and use these
results with some doubt, but others have reported good information. Let us
know if the numbers worked.

Thanks,
Observer

[Cracker Jack]

I tried for hours to aim at the two satellites with this dish. I
could get one sat or the other but not both. Finally I put up a
second dish (old single LNB directv) and aimed it at one sat and the
other dish at the other sat. Everything works fine now. Perhaps I
need a bigger dish than the one I have ?? who knows. I've never had
such problems aiming at satellites before.

So good to get US network feeds on HDTV with expressvu. I doubt if
Directv will ever offer them.

Thanks for the help. Perhaps I'll give it another try in the future!

CJ

Post by Observer

Post by Cracker Jack
I'm having so much problem aiming my dish to get it to work with both
satellites. I just bought a 6020 system. I live in San Francisco and
had my old dish with the 4700 working fine. I can get some signal for
the 91 sat, it varies between 55 and 75 but disappears after a while.
I cannot get any signal on the 82 sat. Can anyone help me out here
and tell me what I'm doing wrong? The instructions from Bell are bad
and only talk about aiming at the 91. Are we not to aim at the 82?
I've skewed the dish, but not sure which way is the right way! help!
Thanks
CJ

An aiming site, http://www3.telus.net/rampage/skew.htm , gives these results
for aiming a Dish500 type antenna to the two Nimiq satellites from San
Azimuth = 130.4 deg True (about 117 to 118 deg magnetic)
Elevation = 32.4 deg
Skew = 57.8
The sites calls itself a beta site, read the comments there and use these
results with some doubt, but others have reported good information. Let us
know if the numbers worked.
Thanks,
Observer

[Ian]

Hi CJ,

This is probably a moot point, now that you have the system working, but it
really sounds like the skew is not set properly.
Cheers,

Ian

Post by Cracker Jack
I tried for hours to aim at the two satellites with this dish. I
could get one sat or the other but not both. Finally I put up a

[Cracker Jack]

I did put the skew from 55 - 65 in real small increments, but still
couldn't get it working. I'll try another day.

Post by Ian
Hi CJ,
This is probably a moot point, now that you have the system working, but it
really sounds like the skew is not set properly.
Cheers,
Ian

Post by Cracker Jack
I tried for hours to aim at the two satellites with this dish. I
could get one sat or the other but not both. Finally I put up a