Installing a hotdish90

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Ok I need some help on the install of this dish. I do want to add a motor in the future.
hotdish90 offset dish, Standard ku lnbf. openbox S10
for starters. :greed:
How long of a pole do I need? I do know that pole must be leveled.

Thanks for the help in advance.
 
Thanks el, I downloaded the file
I have a spot picked out which I think will work. I have a tripod for a dish in the shed maybe I can hook things up temp so I can find the best spot. I'm a newb at this lol I'm going to ask all the dum :omfg: ?'s I have lmao. This should be fun. :bigahh:
I want to do this install step by step so other members can learn as well.

Thanks for the help.
 
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IMO, No questions are dumb when a person is trying to learn.

Setting the dish on a temporary tripod has lots of advantages. You can move the dish around and see what satellites are available at a given location. In a way, this is extra work but it may save you from digging a hole and planting a dish pole that you need to move.

For me, a good motor pole will be about 2.5 inches in outside diameter. It will be black steel pipe with a schedule 40 wall thickness. I expect my ku motor poles to hold up to 50 pounds of weight.

Motor poles can vary in length. Here in Atlanta and the surrounding area, we have a clay type of soil so digging down real deep and using a lot of concrete is not really necessary. 2.5 to 3 Feet deep is about as far as I care to dig for a ku motor pole.
The length of the pole is decided by the area where the dish will be installed. In almost all installations, about half of your dish will be above the top of the pole. this means that you could probably get a 5 foot piece of pipe and put 2 feet of it in the ground, leaving 3 feet to run your 3 foot dish. This would be cutting it close but it would probably work with a ku motor.
For my installations, I like to get a pipe that is between 8 and 9 feet long. This length gives me plenty of pipe to stick in the ground and the completed installation leaves me with 5-6 feet of pipe to work with. I do not like to go any higher than 6 feet because the pole is easier to move on its own, plus you may need a ladder to make adjustments.
In December of 2007, I wrote an article on installing a motor pole. Some of the things I did are overkill but I have not had any problems with that pole. The motor pole .pdf file can be found in the link. http://www.legitfta.com/forum/showthread.php?p=161#post161
 
I will mess with the tripod we have the same clay base as you do in NC so anchoring the tripod wont be a problem lol it might be more work but its a good way to learn & the wife will kill me if I put to many holes in the yard.

I have been playing with the sat angle app you posted. I am at Lat- 36, 8.6 min N & Long- 80, 8.5 min W. Still learning the app. I will go with a pole like your talking about. I downloaded the pdf & will go over it in the morning.
Thanks bro
 
I now have the dish mounted on the tripod. What sat should I go after to test? What are the LNB settings?
 
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What lnb do you have?? What is the make and model number?
If it is standard, the l.o. will be 10750.
If it is universal, use 10600 and turn the 22KHz tone ON. OR use the universal setting of 9750/10600.
An easy satellite to get will be SES1 at 101 West. Look at Lyngsat: http://www.lyngsat.com/ses1.html

Goto dishpointer.com and enter your address and your aiming information will be displayed when you select the SES1 satellite.
 
The bracket that mounts on back of dish does the arrow point up or down was no instr. with dish?
 
I'm done for today its raining. The best I got using the S10 was S-45, Q-6. :swear: Will mess with it tomorrow. Thanks for the help El
 
We need to know what kind of lnb you have.
You need to be using the correct antenna settings for your lnb or you will get nothing.
You need to look for a signal on a transponder that actually has a signal. Some transponders are dead. If you are looking for a signal on a dead transponder, you will have big problems finding the satellite!!!
It should get easier after you catch your first bird. EB
 
Bellboy said:
Ok I need some help on the install of this dish. I do want to add a motor in the future.
hotdish90 offset dish, Standard ku lnbf. openbox S10
for starters. :greed:
How long of a pole do I need? I do know that pole must be leveled.

Thanks for the help in advance.
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First post Bro lol, Well it stopped raining so I went back outside but I took the old Pansat 2500. As soon as I hook it up I started to get single. so I went tru the sat list & pick the strongest one with single & quality. It was satmex5, so I played with the dish & got 88% single & 45 quality. I then did a scan for the hell of it. It was getting late.

I pulled in 6 channels they were Chinese. So I am at 116.8w & now have a starting point. Will mess with it tomorrow, I'm glad I got something. :clap: LOL

THe ? I have is on the lnb & the mount have numbers do I set this to zero & what does this do? Its the lnb skew.
Thanks El
 
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Adjust the lnb skew for maximum signal strength. Dishpointer.com tells you how many degrees of skew you need for a certain satellite. A satellite that is directly South of you should have 0 degrees of lnb skew.

Out of curiosity, What transponder frequency did you find the 116.8 Chinese channels on???
 
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Adjust the lnb skew for maximum signal strength. Dishpointer.com tells you how many degrees of skew you need for a certain satellite. A satellite that is directly South of you should have 0 degrees of lnb skew.

Out of curiosity, What transponder frequency did you find the 116.8 Chinese channels on???
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I was going to check the transponder but it was getting late & the bugs were hitting me good lol. I will check it in the morning & adjust the skew. I want to make sure I'm on the right sat.

Thanks
 
Those Chinese channels are on Satmex 6 at 113w. That's the only ku tp I pick up on that sat.
 
Nice, glad you see you are getting somewhere now Bellboy. The Pansat does have a better signal meter, so I would stick with that until you have found the sats you want, then switch over to the openbox so you can scan in any available DVBS2 and HD channels.

I belive you are using a Standard so as el said should be 10750 MHz LO frequency.
 
Ok this what I am getting.

TP 12080H 25.634
Channels- Da-A1, cctv4$, Hwazan, MacTV, BVN-TV, Reuters wns$

Thanks costa will take a look at that sat. Yep satmex6
 
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Bellboy said:
Ok this what I am getting.

TP 12080H 25.634
Channels- Da-A1, cctv4$, Hwazan, MacTV, BVN-TV, Reuters wns$

Thanks costa will take a look at that sat. Yep satmex6
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Your are on 113 satmex6 for sure. So at least you know what direction to move the dish now, if your going for 101W, Go to the menu page of 101W AND TP 12119 V 30000 then move the dish east till you see a good signal, that is a strong transponder. Not sure if your using a motor so you may have to go to dishpointer and find the correct elevation for 101w.
 
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Your are on 113 satmex6 for sure. So at least you know what direction to move the dish now, if your going for 101W, Go to the menu page of 101W AND TP 12119 V 30000 then move the dish east till you see a good signal, that is a strong transponder. Not sure if your using a motor so you may have to go to dishpointer and find the correct elevation for 101w.
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No motor yet, Thanks for the info will do. Got the info for 101w. back outside lol
 
I got 101w. I'm getting 76 channels. I'm going to adjust some more for max single. If things go well this will be the site for my pole.
by the way Viper didn't have TP 12119 V 30000, I used TP 12120 used S10
Thanks for the help.
 
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