EDIT: This was something from a couple months ago, but if memory serves someone recently posted on difficulty finding G10R. That triggered this post, because it was a bear for me to find G10R the first time:
This tip may or may not be useful to help locate G10R. As always with free advice, you tend to get your money's worth.
Echostar 9 is only 2 degrees away from G10R, very strong, receivable with a linear LNBF, and at least from my location, at virtually the same elevation.
So I peaked the dish on Echostar 9 with a satellite signal meter, and tightened down the dish elevation setting enough to avoid slippage, then switched to 11800 transponder and slooooooooooooooowly moved the dish westward. A little while later, Bingo! G10R. A little horizontal and vertical peaking, (EDIT: virtually no vertical peaking) and it was spot-on.
The "sweet spot" on Echostar 9 is huge by comparison to G10R thanks to its high power. Getting the elevation almost right really helped.
I suppose an inclinometer could do the same job, although I'm unsure exactly how to compensate for the dish offset angle and where to mount the meter, and whether to subtract the angle from 90 or not. So this was the easy way for me.
No guarantees, but it helped me.
This tip may or may not be useful to help locate G10R. As always with free advice, you tend to get your money's worth.
Echostar 9 is only 2 degrees away from G10R, very strong, receivable with a linear LNBF, and at least from my location, at virtually the same elevation.
So I peaked the dish on Echostar 9 with a satellite signal meter, and tightened down the dish elevation setting enough to avoid slippage, then switched to 11800 transponder and slooooooooooooooowly moved the dish westward. A little while later, Bingo! G10R. A little horizontal and vertical peaking, (EDIT: virtually no vertical peaking) and it was spot-on.
The "sweet spot" on Echostar 9 is huge by comparison to G10R thanks to its high power. Getting the elevation almost right really helped.
I suppose an inclinometer could do the same job, although I'm unsure exactly how to compensate for the dish offset angle and where to mount the meter, and whether to subtract the angle from 90 or not. So this was the easy way for me.
No guarantees, but it helped me.
