Motor in Dublin

Manc-Red

Would any of you good people have the motor co-ordinates so I can drive her correctly to sat by my DM please?

Lost all my info in a crash last week on my receiver

Bogger77

O'Connell Bridge is 53.347541N, 6.259385 W

Manc-Red

Can't imagine Lucan is way off that

Thanks very much

tapfit2004

Google maps or google earth or any other good mapping sites should be able to give you fairly accurate coordinates for your address.

Manc-Red

Bit of twigging eventually got it 100%

Cheers all

pelisor2000

clonee...
53.3N
63.3 W

fat-tony

Might be a decimal place error there;) Try 6.3W

Manc-Red

fat-tony wrote: »

Might be a decimal place error there;) Try 6.3W

Thats correct, tried my exact position according to google but that proved to be a problem when driving the motor.

fat-tony

The nearest tenth of a degree is usually accurate enough. So if you have your USALS settings in your receiver as per google maps / google earth and it's not driving correctly to any particular satellite, then you have a positioning error on your dish and motor. Get the receiver to go to (say) 5W - Atlantic Bird 3, which is your southerly satellite for your location. The motor should be almost at its mid-position (the zero on the scale). The French channels are very strong on that satellite. Loosen the clamps a little where the motor attaches to the mounting pole (not the dish clamps on the motor) and swivel the whole motor/dish combo slightly until you peak the signal. Then adjust the dish elevation (not the motor elevation) until you again peak the signal. You may need to swivel the LNB slightly in its clamp to finally peak the quality. This is a good starting point. Then work outwards from there.

Manc-Red

fat-tony wrote: »

The nearest tenth of a degree is usually accurate enough. So if you have your USALS settings in your receiver as per google maps / google earth and it's not driving correctly to any particular satellite, then you have a positioning error on your dish and motor. Get the receiver to go to (say) 5W - Atlantic Bird 3, which is your southerly satellite for your location. The motor should be almost at its mid-position (the zero on the scale). The French channels are very strong on that satellite. Loosen the clamps a little where the motor attaches to the mounting pole (not the dish clamps on the motor) and swivel the whole motor/dish combo slightly until you peak the signal. Then adjust the dish elevation (not the motor elevation) until you again peak the signal. You may need to swivel the LNB slightly in its clamp to finally peak the quality. This is a good starting point. Then work outwards from there.

Working fine with Pelisior's positioning. - cheers anyway Tony.

fat-tony

Manc-Red wrote: »

Working fine with Pelisior's positioning. - cheers anyway Tony.

So you're actually living in Newfoundland, and not in Clonee, then :rolleyes:

Manc-Red

fat-tony wrote: »

So you're actually living in Newfoundland, and not in Clonee, then :rolleyes:

I have some kop on Tony.