You can tune a dish and you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren buntemeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] How to tune a Satellite Dish >I purchased a few years ago a headset with a tone modulator that would >start > making a tone when you had the dish lined up with the satellite. It made > things simple and could be done by a blind person. The more in line you > had > the dish, the higher the pitch was. You could buy them from your local > company, but that took away business. I purchased it from OPM satellite > on > line. > > Loren > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Boyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 12:37 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] How to tune a Satellite Dish > > > Hi > Your new dish is installed, and now you just need to get that antenna > tuned > for perfect reception and the maximum number of channels! > > Steps: > 1. > Ensure that your satellite antenna meets three conditions: The > line-of-sight > view to the particular satellite is free of obstacles and obstructions > that > will block the incoming signal to the antenna; the mast supporting the > antenna is rigidly mounted and level; and the reflector part of the > satellite antenna > (the dish) is not warped. > > 2. > Adjust the antenna reflector azimuth angle to the position given by the > manufacturer for that particular satellite. This adjustment is the > east-west > movement > of the reflector on the mount and is given in azimuth degrees. > > 3. > Adjust the elevation-look angle to the position given by the manufacturer > of > the satellite of interest. This adjustment is from the horizon to the sky > and > is given as elevation in degrees from that point. These two degrees form > the > orbit degree slot or window of the satellite to be received by your > antenna. > > 4. > Ensure that the antenna signal line is connected to the receiver and the > receiver is turned on and positioned on a beacon channel (a beacon channel > is a > channel being transmitted from the satellite to allow you to peak your > antenna to it). > > 5. > Begin tuning by slowly moving the reflector first to the east in > one-degree > increments for a total of three degrees, then in the opposite direction > (west) > while monitoring the receiver's signal meter. > > 6. > Peak the signal to the highest scale at this point. Peaking the signal > using > a signal meter is most recommended due to the meter's signal sensitivity. > > 7. > Snug the antenna azimuth adjustment slightly on the mount once the signal > level is maximized. > > 8. > Perform the same procedure as in steps 4 through 6, using the elevation > adjustment first up and then down for peaking. Snug the antenna elevation > at > this > point. > > 9. > Ground the antenna and the signal line entrance into the residence to > electrical code standards. > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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