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K - Alignment / Satellite dish orientation
• At the end of the step K, you will receive the Hotbird reference channel on the television
screen. Do not go to step L (adjusting the alignment) if you do not receive this channel.
1) Put the receiver on the Hotbird reference channel then display the signal indicator
(8)
.
2) While checking the level, sweep slowly (for 20 seconds) a quarter of a turn on the right,
then a quarter of a turn on the left while pivoting the whole (satellite dish + rotor) around the
mast. If the level is not going up, increase the satellite dish incline of 2° and do the same
manual scan. Carry on as above by steps of 2° followed by a sweep until the level increase.
When you are on the right satellite, the image will appear in the background. Adjust it to
obtain the maximum level and quality (bar as long as possible). In some area, it is normal
that you will turn up to 20 sweeps, be patient.
3) Block temporally all the nuts.
L - Orientation adjustment
• Put the receiver on the Atlantic Bird 3 reference
(1)
channel. This satellite doesn’t
broadcast popular or interesting channels. However, its position in the sky makes it an
interesting one for dish and motor alignment.
• Check in diagram L the Atlantic Bird 3 angular reading of your geographical area.
• Give
(6)
a satellite number to Atlantic Bird 3 (put 01 in case of hesitation).
• If the motor does not stop at the right value, bring it with a continuous research
(4)
step by
step
(5)
.
• Store
(7)
this position for Atlantic Bird 3. Exemple : Edingburg = 2°W
Leave all the menus and check that you correctly receive the Atlantic Bird 3 reference
channel
(3)
. If it is not the case, you have 2 cases:
First case
: You do not receive anything at all, even when you slightly move the satellite dish
alignment. In that case, it means that a big error has been made during the installation (mast
not vertical, error between east and West, bad reading of the angle…). Restart the installation
from scratch while checking each detail very carefully.
Second case
: You have a bad reception and you have to adjust slightly the satellite dish posi-
tion angle (1 or 2 degrees) to receive correctly Atlantic Bird 3. In that case, the design curve of
the motor is out of line with the real curve. We then advise you to go back to the step K while
putting 2° more for the Hotbird position in your area. If the result is worse, try 2° less.
(1)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
see related paragraph page 13
