So we had a couple of pretty windy (50-60 mph) days here recently, and I suspected it may have moved my dish ever so slightly. I was not getting the transponders on 65W with as good a signal as I had in the past (I had never been able to get any signals east of here, I assumed because of trees that were in the way). We had nice weather outside today so I went out to see if I could improve things at all.
My setup is a Geosat Pro 90 on a Staab HH-90 with a OS Mio running the motor. My longitude is about 84.3 so I used 87W as my south satellite when I set things up originally. I moved the dish over to 65W, and went outside to see if I could improve things. I found that my dish was actually aiming a bit high at 65W. I dropped the elevation just a bit and the signal improved there tremendously, better than it had ever been in the past. I did a scan there and picked up a few additional transponders that I was unable to see before.
I then returned to the house and moved the dish to see how reception had changed on other satellites. As I moved back to the west I noticed that I had lost about half of the channels on 87W and then had nothing as I moved on to 91W, 97W, 99W. At this point I moved the dish to the east and was actually able to scan in some channels on 58W and 45W, which as I said earlier I had never been able to do before. However, I don't know if this is solely due to the adjustment I made or due to the leaves all being gone from the trees.
At this point I knew something definitely was not right and it was going to be getting dark soon. I moved the dish back to 97W and brought the elevation up so that the wife could watch Positiv and the kids watch Smile tonight. How things currently are setting now, I cannot get 65W or anything to the east of it at all. I have lost the PBS stations on 87W and the news feeds there look a little weaker than normal. As I move west from there, things are pretty much back to the levels they were at prior to me messing with things today. I did however notice that the signals on 125W seem to be a little stronger than I recall, but it has been months since I've had the dish there since we get two PBS affiliates OTA.
Now I am wondering what all may be out of alignment. I plan to go outside tomorrow and try to get things re-aligned as best I can. I am thinking maybe the whole motor, dish and all could have got moved ever so slightly to the west by the winds coming out of the southeast? Would that cause the dish to be aimed slightly high for the one bird (65W) that is to my east? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, as always.
My setup is a Geosat Pro 90 on a Staab HH-90 with a OS Mio running the motor. My longitude is about 84.3 so I used 87W as my south satellite when I set things up originally. I moved the dish over to 65W, and went outside to see if I could improve things. I found that my dish was actually aiming a bit high at 65W. I dropped the elevation just a bit and the signal improved there tremendously, better than it had ever been in the past. I did a scan there and picked up a few additional transponders that I was unable to see before.
I then returned to the house and moved the dish to see how reception had changed on other satellites. As I moved back to the west I noticed that I had lost about half of the channels on 87W and then had nothing as I moved on to 91W, 97W, 99W. At this point I moved the dish to the east and was actually able to scan in some channels on 58W and 45W, which as I said earlier I had never been able to do before. However, I don't know if this is solely due to the adjustment I made or due to the leaves all being gone from the trees.
At this point I knew something definitely was not right and it was going to be getting dark soon. I moved the dish back to 97W and brought the elevation up so that the wife could watch Positiv and the kids watch Smile tonight. How things currently are setting now, I cannot get 65W or anything to the east of it at all. I have lost the PBS stations on 87W and the news feeds there look a little weaker than normal. As I move west from there, things are pretty much back to the levels they were at prior to me messing with things today. I did however notice that the signals on 125W seem to be a little stronger than I recall, but it has been months since I've had the dish there since we get two PBS affiliates OTA.
Now I am wondering what all may be out of alignment. I plan to go outside tomorrow and try to get things re-aligned as best I can. I am thinking maybe the whole motor, dish and all could have got moved ever so slightly to the west by the winds coming out of the southeast? Would that cause the dish to be aimed slightly high for the one bird (65W) that is to my east? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, as always.
