After moving my family 350 miles west of our previous location, I called HughesNet to ask which direction to point my antenna to. I called in the early afternoon, so I was a little surprised to find my call being answered in Mumbai. I asked the technician to give me the magnetic azimuth of the HughesNet satellite closest to about 225 degrees from zip code 93955. I offered him some possibilities that I had found on a list of HughesNet servicing satellites:
AMC3, AMC9, G3C, G11, G16, G26, G28, HOR1, SM5, SM6.
There were other birds listed, but some required a "Vertical Shim Kit", and others only listed one transponder each for broadcast and receive, which didn't sound like enough to me. At first he said that I needed to point at L1ZR, or something like that, but before I could verify the name, he said that I needed to call in a qualified HughesNet technician. I told him that I didn't want to call in a tech, because here in Monterey County, that could easily cost over $200.00. He went on to tell me how hard it is to point an antenna, but I cut him off and told him that I had already pointed a 10' C-band antenna for my oldest son, and a 1.2 meter Ku-band GeosatPro for my wife's FTA shows, but he was unimpressed. He just repeated the whole noise about requiring a HughesNet tech. I finally told him thanks but no thanks, and got off the phone.
We live on part of the street that is down in a wide gully, so to speak. I have a decent compass, so I determined the lowest area of sky that I could see was from about magnetic 215 degrees to about magnetic 240 degrees. Can somebody tell me which magnetic azimuth to point at in order to hit one of those satellites mentioned above from 93955? OR, am I totally off base, and the only satellite that will work for me is the one that was aimed at during my modem's commissioning?
Thank you for your help.
AMC3, AMC9, G3C, G11, G16, G26, G28, HOR1, SM5, SM6.
There were other birds listed, but some required a "Vertical Shim Kit", and others only listed one transponder each for broadcast and receive, which didn't sound like enough to me. At first he said that I needed to point at L1ZR, or something like that, but before I could verify the name, he said that I needed to call in a qualified HughesNet technician. I told him that I didn't want to call in a tech, because here in Monterey County, that could easily cost over $200.00. He went on to tell me how hard it is to point an antenna, but I cut him off and told him that I had already pointed a 10' C-band antenna for my oldest son, and a 1.2 meter Ku-band GeosatPro for my wife's FTA shows, but he was unimpressed. He just repeated the whole noise about requiring a HughesNet tech. I finally told him thanks but no thanks, and got off the phone.
We live on part of the street that is down in a wide gully, so to speak. I have a decent compass, so I determined the lowest area of sky that I could see was from about magnetic 215 degrees to about magnetic 240 degrees. Can somebody tell me which magnetic azimuth to point at in order to hit one of those satellites mentioned above from 93955? OR, am I totally off base, and the only satellite that will work for me is the one that was aimed at during my modem's commissioning?
Thank you for your help.
