Thor incline

[duffy]

My dish is currently on Hotbird. I intend to turn it to Thor tomorrow. I have checked the incline for thor on a well known site, using my Longtitude as 53.2 deg and my lat as -2.2 (south Manchester). the responce i am getting
is that for thor it should be 29.18 deg and for hotbird it should be 28 deg. This seems to high, my dish already on hotbird only appears to be about 10 to 12 deg. Can somebody check for me in case I have messed up some how.

Many thanks.

[echelon]

maybe you havent taken the offset your dish may have into account ?

you may have used the details for a direct focus dish and not an offset dish

[Gone_Fishing]

As echelon said your dish doesn't point directly at the sat its offset by about 22 degrees


TNT

[duffy]

Thanks for the quick replies. What amount do I count as offset is it about 22 deg.

thanks

[Gone_Fishing]

22 degrees was a gestimate on my part if your dish is already on 28E just move it round to 1W then see if it needs to be tweaked up and down a little

Much easier if you have a meter if not its trial and error :respect-050:


TNT

[kegnkiwi]

for the uk most dish's are verticle to the ground, so if your dish is way up in the air on pointing at the ground you are wrong. Look at our neightours sly dish's and it should look the same level as that.

ki

[duffy]

Done it thanks. Dish needed raising a midges D**k, which is about 1 deg.
Thanks for all advice.

[mrbleu500]

Q> How do you measure a d**k with a protractor?

:conehead:

[melling]

i am trying to find thor with a 80cm in melling by liverpool but to no avail. i am trying the trail an error method with my echolink set on the satelite in the menu an tweaking the dish til i find a strong signal strength, no look so far. i scratched the side of the dish pole at 19 degrees astra and 13 degrees for the hotbird so have guessed moving it another 14 degrees making 1 degree west , any help would be much appreciated