I swapped back over to the Linear port on the lnb, and swung over to Intelsat 5, since that was a strong one recommended for setup. I dinked around with the setting, and it picked it up with a 67 quality. I then ran a blind scan, and found 70 or so channels. However, once I saved and got out...

Ok, I tried Lak7's suggestion. First, since I realized that both my compases point South only when it is convinient to them, I broke out the ole' flight gps. I started at my dish pole, and walked toward several landmarks until I got one that hit 183deg (true south here). I then pointed my...

BTW, to answer Tron's question, I'm about 35 miles SouthEast of Birmingham, about 3.5 hours North of Mobile.

Thanks guys, I'll give all this a shot and report back again. One other crazy question. I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Viewsat 9000, but when I'm looking at the channels, is there a way to bump the sat right or left? The only way I've found to move the sat is on the antenna setup...

I guess I'm not understanding the elevation thing. The motor book, etc says I set to my lattitude on the mount, then 30 on the dish minus 5.4. That makes my elevation on an inclinometer 24.6. However, I look at the sat finders, and they're showing my elevation should be in the 50's. I'm lost...

Yes, it is the quad with 2 L's and 2 C's. glen4cindy: Thanks for the suggestion. I'm researching how to do that now, ha. I searched for Lyngsat and found a page with all kinds of sats, but no real info on active xponders. Iceberg's thread on "I need a strong transponder" lists this for AMC3...

Wow, thanks for all the quick replies guys! I very much appreciate all the help. It sounds like my mistake might have been trying to aim true south, then trying to swing over and find Intelsat 5. All the literature I read said to try and find it first instead of trying to find a true south...

Hi everyone, I'm in Alabama, and I'm new to the FTA arena. I seem to be having some trouble setting up my new system. Been at it for days now, and I'm starting to think something's wrong with me, ha. My setup is as follows: Viewsat 9000HD, Invacom universal LNB, Winegard 31" dish, and SG2100...