[SBE] sat finder cheap and dirty method

[Gary Stewart]

The cheap and dirty part I basically understood, but I need more help on
two things.  

1) I think I need an example for the skew being the inverse of the
longitude between you and the sat.


2) Your reference to the rectangle went over my head. I tried to put it
on paper but I didn't understand how it applied to the problem. Can you
explain in more detail?

Gary Stewart
Cornerstone TV



-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:26 AM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: Re: [SBE] sat finder

I've put in a lot of dishes. My cheap and dirty method is to set the 
elevation first, since that will intersect the sat arc in two places
(unless at Zenith 
at your location) then rotate for signal, then peak with the receiver.
Fine 
for fixed sat dishes, Vsats, etc. Skew is the inverse of the longitude
between 
you and the sat. I always use cross pol to set skew since the null is a
lot 
easier to see than the peak. 


Think of the arc at zenith, the sat, your longitude 
and the sat longitude as a rectangle.  

Henry   
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