Galileo - VSAT Installation Training
CHAPTER 3
Hardware
Installation
POINTING THE DISH - Page 1 of 2
With the pointing parameters, let’s point the dish.
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Weight down the non-pen mount in its permanent location.
Locate your pointing parameters you wrote down from the Galileo Work Order.
Raise Elevation to 44 degrees roughly. Use the Fine Elevation Adjustment bolt to do this. Pull back on the top of the dish to prevent binding.
Use the elevation indicator on the Right side or "B" side of the the mounting bracket to locate 44 degrees.
With a compass, locate the bearing of 134 degrees. This is the direction you will be aiming the satellite dish toward.
Rotate the dish on the Non-Pen post to roughly aim the satellite dish toward 134 degrees on your compass.
The Birdog is a satellite finder. Make sure that you have a good charge on this unit for each installation.
Use a 10' length of coax cable and connect one end of it to the input connector of the Birdog.
Connect the other end to the LNB Reciever connection. You only need to finger tighten everything right now.
Turn on the Birdog by pressing and HOLDING the "ON" button.
Scroll right until you come to KH AMC4 (K stands for KU band and H stands for Horizontal Polarity)
With a free arm slowly sweep the sky by rotating the dish and looking (and listening) to the birdog. You may need to slighty raise or lower your Elevation to find the satellite. Take your time in this and trust your compass bearing.
NOTE - You can use the Birdog's satellite setting of Gallaxy 11 KH (Galaxy 11 has a longitude of 91 degrees instead of 101 degrees for AMC4) to find AMC4 KH. Watch that you don't connect to the wrong satellite... trust your compass.
The Birdog will show the satellite is found when the dish is properly aimed.
At this point, lock down the sleeve nuts on the Mounting Bracket over the Non-Pen sleeve. You will use the fine adjustments for Elevation and Azimuth to improve your aim.
Next... place an Inclinometer on top of the transmitter and rotate it to approximately negative -25.57 degrees (from your work order).
The inclometer must face away from the dish for an accurate reading.
Negative numbers only mean that you are using the numbers going counter clockwise on the inclinometer.
Make sure that you skew the dish before you use the Birdog (next).
