New (to me) Dish Pointer App

[drago_master]

What's with the Dish Pointer app at DishPointer - Align your satellite dish on my PC using Firefox.

It is clearly not the same format as when I used it in April to get the altitude, skew and azimuth for our 1000.2 antenna.

When I enter the required numbers – 32.956616n, 95.99.5933 and click Multi-LNB Setups, I do not get any output in the satellite data that looks useful.

I get 250.7mag, 135.8skew, and -31.8elevation with a red line pointing ENE. I finally figured to click the box with all the sats in it and scroll to the bottom 1000+ (110w, 118.7w, 119w, 129w). Mine is a 1000.2 w/3antenna on the LNB.

Then I get 215.8mag, 121.1skew & 44.4elevation which looks what I might guess it should be. Does that seem correct?

Can someone help me out?

Kenneth Drake

 

[HipKat]

What's with the Dish Pointer app at DishPointer - Align your satellite dish on my PC using Firefox.

It is clearly not the same format as when I used it in April to get the altitude, skew and azimuth for our 1000.2 antenna.

When I enter the required numbers – 32.956616n, 95.99.5933 and click Multi-LNB Setups, I do not get any output in the satellite data that looks useful.

I get 250.7mag, 135.8skew, and -31.8elevation with a red line pointing ENE. I finally figured to click the box with all the sats in it and scroll to the bottom 1000+ (110w, 118.7w, 119w, 129w). Mine is a 1000.2 w/3antenna on the LNB.

Then I get 215.8mag, 121.1skew & 44.4elevation which looks what I might guess it should be. Does that seem correct?

Can someone help me out?

Kenneth Drake

Huh... You're not wrong. I put in my city and the only sats that show up to choose from are Asian.
North here is straight up on the map

 

[Foxbat]

The dishpointer.com domain isn't based in the USA now, it appears to be owned by some entity in Germany.

They're not volunteering much info.

 

[NYDutch]

Huh... You're not wrong. I put in my city and the only sats that show up to choose from are Asian.
North here is straight up on the map

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Did you click on "Multi-LNB Setups" and then in the sat box to see the list? And clicking on "All Satellites" and then scrolling down the list finds all of the individual sats listed from east to west. The Dish and DTV sats are quite a ways down.

 

[Jim5506]

After you enter your location, you must click on the satellite data box and scroll down to the satellites that are "W" west. Satellites are listed by latitude beginning at 180 degrees east to 180 degrees west, so USA visible satellites are quite far down in the list. So, 61.5 is about 2/3 of the way down the list110 and 119 are more than 3/4 of the way down.
If you zero in on an Asian satellite you are looking down through the earth.
This new site is actually easier to find Dish satellites by using the Multi-lnb setups , whereas before you had to dig through all of the satellites.