Aiming directv dish

I have a multi-LNB Dish dish, but Direct would be the same. Pretty much any time you relocate the dish any distance the elevation and skew settings will change. Along with the azimuth of course.

Which one of azimuth, elevation or skew is 'tilt'?

skew

Ok. I adjust it back to 90 to shoot the 101. Then I put it where the screen tells me to.

So, every time.

Rarely.

Correct me if I'm wrong but a few definitions;

Elevation is the up and down.

Azimuth is the left-right.

Tilt or skew is what you twist your dish to.

I think Dish uses different terminology.

The settings change in relation to how far you travel from the last time you set up. I camp often in a hundred mile radius and never change the tilt. Elevation and az are hand tuned anyway after getting them close enough to get a signal.

If you are going to move 300-400 miles a day I have readjust every 3-4 days.

Every time that you aim your dish, tilt/skew needs to be set. The good news is that of the three settings, skew/tilt is the least critical.

haddy1 wrote:
Every time that you aim your dish, tilt/skew needs to be set. The good news is that of the three settings, skew/tilt is the least critical.

Why? I rarely change mine if I'm in Florida. I peak the 101 at high 90's and my HD sats are always in the high 80s. I never change them.

If you know the answer, why did you ask the question? There is a big difference between what may work for you in FL and what may work in another part of the country.

I have installed well over 100 DTV systems in RV's and stick houses and the answer that I gave you is the correct one. If you don't believe me, post your question on one of the DTV installer forums.

on my older manual Directv TRIPOD dish I just keep tabs on the signal strength on the setup page. If it is around 60%-80% good I am good to go...

Most of the time it runs around 90%-100%

I guess if you are dealing with HIGH DEF Digital TV it is more critical perhaps... I see alot of HOME HDTV setups tilted to side sometimes.

Roy Ken

haddy1 wrote:
If you know the answer, why did you ask the question? There is a big difference between what may work for you in FL and what may work in another part of the country.

I have installed well over 100 DTV systems in RV's and stick houses and the answer that I gave you is the correct one. If you don't believe me, post your question on one of the DTV installer forums.

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I didn't ask the question; I'm not the OP.

I agree you have to set the skew on the initial install but if you take it down and set it up in the same location plus or minus a few hundred miles you don't have to change the skew. Doesn't matter where you live.

When you go to set it back up, you have to level it and set the compass heading and angle but the skew will be fine until you move east, wedst, north or south more than several hundred miles.

And only a hundred setups? I have done hundreds and hundreds. All over the country. In heavily treed canopies with tiny holes. In the rain. With heavy cloud cover.