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kn924
12-04-04, 10:40 AM
:confused: i just bought a dish 500 with a single dss lbn used from a dealer , my scenario is everything is installed , mounted plumb, elevation, azimuth set to required for my location in tx , im trying to get skyangel satellite 61.5W.L ...in the installation screen under ANGLES it show's input for zip code and also wether it's a 301 dish 500 dish e.t.c ...i choose 500 dish of course and put in 76539 for zip code ..nothing shows up next to elevation , azimuth , e.tc fields ..my question is there something wrong with the hardware ...im have signal at all

BobaBird
12-04-04, 09:23 PM
Choose Dish 300 to get the az/el. The Dish 500 has a skew setting, adjust it to 0.

SimpleSimon
12-04-04, 11:19 PM
BobaBird - not quite. The Dish 500 will be 4.5 degrees off in azimuth, and slightly off in elevation.

And didn't I already answer this question today?

jdspencer
12-14-04, 08:13 PM
Yup, you did. :)
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=35906
The forum must have burped. :D