Setting Up your motor

[arboristman]

C/P
Setting Up your motor
Before you install a motor, I would suggest that you aim the dish at a satellite such as IA5 and familiarize yourself with the operation of the receiver. Scan in a few channels and verify that your equipment is working. You probably will need to reconstruct the portable base (made to fit a Dish Network or DirecTV foot plate) to fit the larger foot plate of the DS2076. Be sure to weight this base with sandbags or blocks. The first stiff breeze will upset this base with its small footprint.

Setting the mast to perfectly vertical is the most critical!!!! Once you have set the mast plumb and level, set the motor mount latitude scale to match the installation site latitude and set the dish elevation angle to an angle between 20 and 30 degrees (determined by the chart in the motor manual). Aim the dish and motor towards true south compass reading (magnetic south pls or minus your magnetic declination). Don't get to concerned about this true south thing .... it's just to get your dish headed in approximately the right direction. Set the LNBF rotation (SKEW) to zero. The motor will set the LNBF SKEW as it rotates to the satellite position.

Next input your Longitude and Latitude into the USALS menu of the receiver and save the setting. The dish will rotate into the correct motor setting then stop. Next go into one of the preprogrammed channels and activate the signal feature to display signal strength and quality or select an active TP of the satellite in the installation menu (if IA-5 try 12.177GHz) . Slowly pan the motor on the mast left or right up to 10 or 15 degrees of estimated location of the satellite. If no quality appears, increase the dish elevation angle by a degree and sweep again .... repeat .... repeat .... repeat as many times until you have a quality reading and peaked for highest quality reading (not signal level). Never use the motor to nudge the position of the dish or the DiSEqC 1.2 mode at this time or your USALS aiming will not be correct and the motor will not track the arc of satellites.

Next enter a second satellite. Try G10R KU and set up your LNB type, activate USALS and select and active TP (11.800GHz). The dish will move to the motor position for G10R. You should have a quality reading, but if not or the quality is low make slight adjustments by panning of the motor on the post and/or dish elevation angle. Once you have quality on this TP, scan the satellite to program channels that you can return to monitor the signal quality. Return to IA5 and check the signal quality. If it has dropped, make minute adjustments to peak.

Return to G10R and check the quality on those channels. You may have to go between several satellites a few times to peak the quality to be high on all at the same time. Careful initial installation will result in less frustration the next time you bring the portable dish out and level the base and point at one satellite. All should track correctly if you have made sure the post is PERFECTLY level!!!