How easy is it to get a signal from my sky dish,builders had to take it down to do the?
Question:plastering on the outside of my house so we have lost the signal,so when they go this evening i need to know weather or not it is going to be easy to find the signal,is it a case of pointing the dish in the correct direction and the signal will pick up or am i going have problems
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As a prior satellite technician for the military and now a satellite controller, believe me, you won't find it. You need to call your provider to come out and put it back up. Sorry!
Most dishes point to the South. Then you have to fine tune them while someone watches the signal strength on the TV. If you are lucky, the up and down position may not have been moved and simply using the existing holes to remount it may work. Good luck.
You probably will have some difficulty getting the dish repointed correctly unless the mounting is going back in exactly the same position.AND the dish support has not been moved out of alignment. My TV satelite dish will loose signal if it is moved more than an inch or two in the vertical or horizontal direction. The good news is that you can probably find directions on line or from you satelite provider for the exact direction and angle to align the dish. Then all you need is a compass and a protractor to get it in the ball park. Once you do that, follow your installation manual to align the dish. If you don't have one, go to the website and find out how to set your reciever to the signal strength/alignment setting.
Once you have it correctly aligned, be sure to put permanent marks on boths side of the adjustment in case the dish is accidently bumped or moved due to wind.
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