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Testing the System
Picking Up the Satellite Signal
In this section, you’ll pick up the satellite signal by pointing the
dish toward the satellite. You’ve already set the elevation on the
dish, so now you’ll need to point the dish to the correct azimuth.
Keep in mind that for the system test, you’re only interested in
receiving a signal—the strength of the signal is not important.
When you mount the dish permanently, you’ll spend some extra
time fine tuning the signal to receive the strongest possible
signal.
Point the Dish
1. If necessary, loosen the nuts on the support sleeve so that the
dish and LNB support arm can rotate easily left and right.
2. Hold the compass flat in the palm of your hand away from
the dish. Hold your hand still until the needle stops moving
(the dark or colored half of the compass needle always points
north).
3 Rotate the compass so that the “N” (for north) is directly
under the dark part of the compass needle.
Your compass is now aligned with north. The tick marks
around the edge of the compass represent azimuth degrees.
If at any time during the test you
hear one continuous tone, or see the
message “signal locked” on the on-
screen signal meter, then you know
the system is working and you can
skip to Disconnecting Test
Components.
1
Rotate until N lines up with the
dark half of the arrow
2, 3
Support
sleeve nuts
Support Sleeve Nuts