4.
Acquiring the satellite signal
If you are aligning the dish yourself, you will need to do the following:
a)
Calculate your estimated dish pointing angles:
Visit
http://www.bentley-walker.com/dishpointer
This will return
azimuth,
which is the left and right movement of the dish;
elevation
, the up and down
movement of the dish; and the
polarisation
, which is the rotation angle of the feed assembly. Use these values
to point the dish in the right direction
b)
We recommend using a
Satellite Meter
such as a MaxPeak or Horizon to then find the satellite signal
c)
Once you have a lock on the signal, open up the “antenna pointing tool” in iSite, by right clicking on
the remote and selecting “Align Antenna” > “Antenna Pointing”
Click on the “Antenna Pointing” tab at the top then click “Start”
After a short period, the graph will start showing data; use this to adjust the dish to get the reading as high as
possible (
15v
or higher)
