DIY sattelite dish fine tuning. (SOLVED--Thanks)

If you have a smart phone dish pointer pro is a good starting point.
From there I have an align a site.

I do recall someone posting their homemade dish mod, but I didn't find it with a couple of search tries. Here's a photo of that shows the OEM elevation fine tuning setup on our Dish 1000.4 dish that I moded with wing nuts for a no tools adjustment. It may give you some ideas for moding your dish. The 1000.4 also has a fine tuning nut/cam for the azimuth adjustment, although I rarely need to use it.

donn0128 wrote:
If you have a smart phone dish pointer pro is a good starting point.
From there I have an align a site.

OK, but I'm looking for the Added DIY fine tuning screws to make the elevation and Azimuth easier to tune.
Someone on here figured out a way with adjustment bolts and knobs.
It seems that Doc or Wizzard was part of th guys screen name.
I use a signal meter but it is aggravating to adjust for me.
Marvin

The DTV Slimline dish has fine-tuning bolts on it already. But, I guess you don't have that.

2oldman wrote:
The DTV Slimline dish has fine-tuning bolts on it already. But, I guess you don't have that.

Nope, Dish Network HD.
Marvin

Dutch_12078 wrote:
I do recall someone posting their homemade dish mod, but I didn't find it with a couple of search tries. Here's a photo of that shows the OEM elevation fine tuning setup on our Dish 1000.4 dish that I moded with wing nuts for a no tools adjustment. It may give you some ideas for moding your dish. The 1000.4 also has a fine tuning nut/cam for the azimuth adjustment, although I rarely need to use it.

Thanks, that helps getting me started. I'll post pictures as it develops.
Marvin
BTW, that bumper mount I made didn't work so good. Too much movement from walking around in the RV.

I did that with mine. I have an azimuth screw and an elevation screw. I used mostly hardware I had kicking around on my workbench so didn't have to spend much. I did, however buy a tripod.

Not sure if my posting on this is still available.

With a one time investment in one of these: http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=satlooklite

If you are looking for knobs/tripods, etc go look at: http://www.tv4rv.com/sunshop/

All your fine tuning issues go away. I do use a phone app like dishpointer to make sure there are no obstructions, then just start with a compass heading and setup the dish, and connect the satlook lite. Up and operational in about 10 minutes including dish setup.

My definiton of fine tuning ele. is sticking a shim under which ever leg needs it! And you only have 3 choices LOL

This is the reason I chose to get a tailgater, auto aligns at startup, and will adjust when changing channels.