New motorised installation would you please help?

[morpheus883]

Neither me, I've never used zero position..... The best result is to maximize SNR with your reference sat (closest to your Long., in your case 5°W): it's the sat at the middle of your horizon, the highest sat at your position and the closest to zero posizion on your motor.

 

[specialized]

I've put mine up 3 times (moved 3 times) in about 14 years.
Looking at the picture you've identical brackets same setup. I used a satfinder gizmo and plugged into Sat with a beeper and set it to zero but my tip my huge massive tip
Plumb and level brackets.
Seriously one time I faffed around to the point I was pulling nose and ear hairs out as I had no head hair left till I checked all my levels and it was that ever so slightly moved.
I slid a tiny bit of offcut of stretch exercise bands under the U clamps to get grip.

Also the degree on the motor make sures that's absolutely bang on. I did it perfect then I put a TV in the bedroom window (pointless buying a TV gizmo for 1 installation) then I slightly loosened the U clamps, put the Zgemma on 0.5 and spun it till I got a FTA on 0.5 then tightened it.

That's worked twice for me, is it the right way ? I don't care if it works it works. I'm no expert but you suddenly learn when your quoted £150 - £200 to line up

 

[Joe_90]

I've put mine up 3 times (moved 3 times) in about 14 years.
Looking at the picture you've identical brackets same setup. I used a satfinder gizmo and plugged into Sat with a beeper and set it to zero but my tip my huge massive tip
Plumb and level brackets.
Seriously one time I faffed around to the point I was pulling nose and ear hairs out as I had no head hair left till I checked all my levels and it was that ever so slightly moved.
I slid a tiny bit of offcut of stretch exercise bands under the U clamps to get grip.

Also the degree on the motor make sures that's absolutely bang on. I did it perfect then I put a TV in the bedroom window (pointless buying a TV gizmo for 1 installation) then I slightly loosened the U clamps, put the Zgemma on 0.5 and spun it till I got a FTA on 0.5 then tightened it.

That's worked twice for me, is it the right way ? I don't care if it works it works. I'm no expert but you suddenly learn when your quoted £150 - £200 to line up

I presume you are referring to my photo posting to show the OP an example of my southernmost satellite? I have coverage from 45E to (at one time) 60W, although I don't think there's anything receivable from 60W now. I just set my motor on zero, centralised the dish and roughly pointed south. Then put in my coordinates and had USALS drive to 5W, which only moved the motor a degree. Then I peaked the signal by swinging the motor and dish slightly and adjusting the dish elevation and focusing the LNB etc., same as other posters. The motor latitude/elevation setting is critical (checked the angle with my phone) and, once set, shouldn't be changed. It's important to get the mounting pole absolutely plumb. This is a good guide for installation with nice annotated photos - https://world-of-satellite.com/threads/fruitballs-motorised-installtion-guide.18087/