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Bill_Satellite
Jan 26, 2018Explorer II
The Dish satellites are actually widely spaced and spread across 20 degrees of sky. But, not matter, the pointing must still be done very precisely. You will not get all of your programming with that antenna since, as mentioned above, there is only 1 LNB and Dish uses 3 satellites. Your best bet is likely to point at the 129 satellite for the most HD programming. A signal meter can help locate the satellite but that older antenna can be very finicky to point. Have you ever been able to use it successfully with DirecTV or Dish? You will want to go into the receiver setup menu (used to be Menu 6-1-1, not sure about the Wally) and get to the screen where you can select a satellite and there is a signal meter. Move the antenna slowly as there is a delay as when you get a signal from the right satellite you can peak up/down/left/right. Now you could run a check switch to receive programing from that one satellite.
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