Originally Posted by
lineland
Jules you will have substantially better success just scanning around. Those angle finders are useless as are the graduations on the bracket close to useless. The angle finder and the graduations on the bracket are only some good, provided your dish set-up is 100% level to a micro tenth of a degree. Forget all the gadgets - leave them at home. You will stuff around more with gadgets than just swinging the dish.
One of the most important things is to have an engraved LNB see they are sold out, but no doubt will be back shortly. Another issue if your LNB is a cheap and nasty unit, they don't have the sensitivity of quality LNB's. Another issue if the LNB has a serious knock can impair their sensitivity as an LNB is a precision device. In your case this won't be an issue, but travellers should change their LNB's every five years purely from being knocked around. I have helped hundreds travelling around Australia to set-up their satellite TV dishes..
On the WikiCamps App it gives you the LNB angle at the bottom of the screen. Make sure before you do anything else is to set the LNB angle.
What sort of dish do you have?
What sort of stand do you have for the dish?
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