[SBE] sat finder

[Jeff Carter]

That's the way I do it, too.

I consider a spectrum analyzer to be indispensable to the process,
too.  I *can* do it without one, but I *won't* do it without one.

Jeff
Atlanta

---- Original message ----

>Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:26:06 EDT

>From: A9xw at cs.com

>Subject: Re: [SBE] sat finder

>To: sbe at sbe.org

>

>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