miss my slimline setup already? New dish sucks!

[edugamer]

I finally bought a dedicated fta satellite dedicated dish.
So I set up the brand new 33" disk yesterday in the same spot I had the old one. and was so excited to play with it finally. I am a bit confused and frustrated a little. The lnb is installed in the little plastic cuff thingy and I am getting some action on both the receiver's builtin signal strength bar and my gauge which is good, but I am not getting any signal quality readings what so ever! I see an aro on the lnb head and scored it to be able to feel it as I have poor eye sight. The markings on the cuff and elevation couldn't be more vague! On the lnb cuff, I see 0center,,, 20 left, 20 right. No integers just some genarric lines which I tried scorring for marking places.
Elevation is a nightmare! I guess Im complaining now lol I gotta remember this is indeed a $79 budget dish. I imagine the geosatpro would have the nice stuff. But no fine adjustment rod, just friction! grrrr! The intintegers/segments/increments suck! All I got out of it so far is chipped paint from gravety dropping the dish on me repeatedly!
I was going to score the elevation later but I guess I will have to use puffy paint now as it will be like trying to read brail through aluminum foil.

 

[edugamer]

elevation markers are segmented by 5s!
so I need to imagine lines?
I guess I might need to be a little patient with it.
Guess that's what happens when you get into fta by a slimline. You are spoiled by it somehow lol.

 

[FTA4PA]

I finally bought a dedicated fta satellite dedicated dish.
So I set up the brand new 33" disk yesterday in the same spot I had the old one. and was so excited to play with it finally. I am a bit confused and frustrated a little. The lnb is installed in the little plastic cuff thingy and I am getting some action on both the receiver's builtin signal strength bar and my gauge which is good, but I am not getting any signal quality readings what so ever! I see an aro on the lnb head and scored it to be able to feel it as I have poor eye sight. The markings on the cuff and elevation couldn't be more vague! On the lnb cuff, I see 0center,,, 20 left, 20 right. No integers just some genarric lines which I tried scorring for marking places.
Elevation is a nightmare! I guess Im complaining now lol I gotta remember this is indeed a $79 budget dish. I imagine the geosatpro would have the nice stuff. But no fine adjustment rod, just friction! grrrr! The intintegers/segments/increments suck! All I got out of it so far is chipped paint from gravety dropping the dish on me repeatedly!
I was going to score the elevation later but I guess I will have to use puffy paint now as it will be like trying to read brail through aluminum foil.

elevation markers are segmented by 5s!
so I need to imagine lines?
I guess I might need to be a little patient with it.
Guess that's what happens when you get into fta by a slimline. You are spoiled by it somehow lol.

Yes, you need to kind of guess-timate between the actual markings for skew and elevation. Still once you get it set up correctly it should perform well for you. Hang in there!

P.S. You might want to try making this device that a member here came up with to keep the dish from falling while adjusting elevation. He used it with a motor but it should work without too.

Ku Band setup/tune-up tool\aide

 

[edugamer]

Yes, you need to kind of guess-timate between the actual markings for skew and elevation. Still once you get it set up correctly it should perform well for you. Hang in there!

P.S. You might want to try the device that a member here came up with to keep the dish from falling while adjusting elevation. He used it with a motor but it should work without too.

Ku Band setup/tune-up tool\aide

thanks!

 

[FTA4PA]

thanks!

You're welcome!

 

[Magic Static]

Did you get a new LNBF with the new dish that has a different L.O. setting?

 

[edugamer]

Did you get a new LNBF with the new dish that has a different L.O. setting?

no its same lo