Dish tracking and skew should be reasonably OK. I can use USALS to receive signals fairly well for the Ku band though there are limited tps to receive on Ku on the eastern half of the arc. I do touch up using diseqc commands for best signals. Since I'm using a H-H motor, skew is set a 0 and left alone.
I believe the correct way to position an LNBF and conical scalar on an offset dish is to first position the LNBF for maximum signal, and then position the scalar to improve that signal. This is what I did for the western half of the arc. Unfortunately, for the eastern half, this isn't possible since I can't get any signal from any satellite I've checked until I add the scalar.
So the position of the LNBF is a guess. What I can try, with conical scalar in place, is to adjust position of the LNBF in its bracket to see if I can improve the signal and the uniformity of circular signal levels across the eastern half of the arc. This is backward but it may help to receive signals better. I won't spend too much effort since I intend to soon move the dish back again to receive the western half which doesn't have FTA circular tps. Despite the many tps I am receiving from the eastern half, the only English I can receive is from 3W and I don't want to dedicate my best dish for that alone.
I believe the correct way to position an LNBF and conical scalar on an offset dish is to first position the LNBF for maximum signal, and then position the scalar to improve that signal. This is what I did for the western half of the arc. Unfortunately, for the eastern half, this isn't possible since I can't get any signal from any satellite I've checked until I add the scalar.
So the position of the LNBF is a guess. What I can try, with conical scalar in place, is to adjust position of the LNBF in its bracket to see if I can improve the signal and the uniformity of circular signal levels across the eastern half of the arc. This is backward but it may help to receive signals better. I won't spend too much effort since I intend to soon move the dish back again to receive the western half which doesn't have FTA circular tps. Despite the many tps I am receiving from the eastern half, the only English I can receive is from 3W and I don't want to dedicate my best dish for that alone.