This afternoon I adjusted my 6' stationary dish from AMC 18 to Galaxy 17. I must be getting good after all these years of adjusting dishes. Without using a signal meter, signal generator, satellite receiver and monitor, etc I simply "eyed" where I believed Galaxy 17 would be 14 degrees away, adjusted the azimuth, adjusted the elevation and came inside to perform a scan. WAM the DMX music channels appeared with a 70% signal with no video channels. I then went out adjusted the elevation higher and came inside and saw that the signal was no near 85%. Performed another scan and received the CW channels, EWTN and all the others. Went outside and tightened all adjustments. I started at 2PM and had the job completed by 2:15PM.
This spring I'm going to replace all the rusted hardware with stainless steel hardware and add an additional c band LNBF to receive Galaxy 16 which is 8 degrees away from Galaxy 17.