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I'm hearing that the new Bell satellite launch in May 2012 means no more signal south of the most northern states. Anyone out there know anything about it? If true there will be a mass migration of Ca...
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Hi Glaidlaw, Thanks for the input,appreciate it, I have mine setup in Sebring in Tanglewood and the Skew is much different from what you suggested I will paste in mine from Dishpointer below, however at channel 700 as directed by the Shaw setup I have at the bottom of the screen beside T1: CH 700 one green block and all white across the bar. So no Signal yet but if I move the dish the Green Block turns red so something is close but without changing anything but the Azimuth the block turns red to the south & red to the north, will play with it tomorrow. Here is my info from dishpointer for Anik F2 Wildblue;
Your Location Satellite Data Dish Setup Data
Latitude: 27.5186°
Longitude: -81.5078° Name: 111.1W Anik F2 | Wildblue 1
Distance: 37469km Motor Latitude: 27.5°
Declination Angle: 4.6°
Dish Elevation: °
Elevation: 44.2°
Azimuth (true): 230.8°
Azimuth (mag.): 236.4° using Compass
LNB Skew: 43.5 (Is this possibly wrong & throwing me off?)
I could try your skew of 121.8 if you think it is good & see what happens, its dark now so will try tomorrow, please let me know how you got that skew.
Thanks....Ernie
Your Location Satellite Data Dish Setup Data
Latitude: 27.5186°
Longitude: -81.5078° Name: 111.1W Anik F2 | Wildblue 1
Distance: 37469km Motor Latitude: 27.5°
Declination Angle: 4.6°
Dish Elevation: °
Elevation: 44.2°
Azimuth (true): 230.8°
Azimuth (mag.): 236.4° using Compass
LNB Skew: 43.5 (Is this possibly wrong & throwing me off?)
I could try your skew of 121.8 if you think it is good & see what happens, its dark now so will try tomorrow, please let me know how you got that skew.
Thanks....Ernie
GLaidlaw wrote:
I have just switched from Bell to Shaw and am also learning. Have not used Shaw in Florida yet but have a lot of experience with Bell. Using dispointer.com I found the following:
Put in your location which would be Sebring, Florida, choose multi-lnb setup, select Starchoice 107.3W and 111W.
This produces the following:
El 45.6
Az Mag 234.3
Skew 121.8
This seems a more appropriate number based on my skew in Toronto of 118.
I do know that using a mounting post that is vertical is critical. I tried playing with it without that and it is futile. I would appreciate any Shaw users posting here to help the rest of us learn how to aim Shaw dishes. They seem to be much more critical than Bell. I will be setting one up at the cottage in the next few days so will report back on my success or failure. I wonder if one did not need the HD channels on F1 if it would be possible to just use the one satellite F1R without skew. Will have to play with that. I did order a heavy duty tripod, fully adjustable to make level to make the job easier. Good luck.
