Aiming directv dish

Big Katuna wrote:

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.

My bad. I guess that I didn't scroll to the beginning.

I'm talking complete installs, not nightly setups.

Big Katuna wrote:
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.

Dish uses exactly the same industry standard terms.

Big Katuna wrote:

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.

The skew setting for a Direct 3 LNB dish using the 101W, 110W, & 119W sats in Jacksonville, FL is 50.9 degrees. The same dish when used about 345 miles (a typical RV travel day) away in Miami should have the skew set at 44.1 degrees. Do you really think an almost 7 degree skew error doesn't affect the signal strength from the outer LNB's?

I set skew to 90 for each new location to shoot the 101, because I seem to remember that's how you are supposed to do it.

Bill-R wrote:
How often have you adjusted the tilt on your swm dish?

i see you're getting answers from A to Z. But there is zero information on the question.
Under what conditions?

Dutch_12078 wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:

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.

The skew setting for a Direct 3 LNB dish using the 101W, 110W, & 119W sats in Jacksonville, FL is 50.9 degrees. The same dish when used about 345 miles (a typical RV travel day) away in Miami should have the skew set at 44.1 degrees. Do you really think an almost 7 degree skew error doesn't affect the signal strength from the outer LNB's?

It will affect it but by tweaking the elevation you will still pull in a usable signal high 70's or low 80S.

SCVJeff wrote:
i see you're getting answers from A to Z. But there is zero information on the question.

Meh.. that's what we're here for. :)

Bill-R wrote:
How often have you adjusted the tilt on your swm dish?

Every time I move 400-500 miles, so countless.