Hi Austin
Apart from the strongly North American slant and quite a number of spelling mistakes your piece was quite entertaining.
Do yourself a real favour and get a cheap Sat finder meter to aid dish pointing. Then add your experience with it to your piece. Telling people it took you several days is not going to sell many dishes!
I used to carry a portable TV and my receiver down to the dish outside to play for hours but the little Satmeter has changed everything. You just use a short jumper cable to temporarily insert the meter in the coax cable going to your LNB.
Using this £20 meter I took me 30 minutes from scratch to fix up a 120cm dish on a difficult satellite, at extreme geographical range, well outside the accepted footprint and have it perfectly aligned for rock solid reception on both V & H polarised channels.
I don't like these rotor/motors due to the lag time when changing channels. The drive software kept being screwed up in my Nokia receivers which finally put me right off. My Nokia receivers are otherwise fine when not called on to move a dish. Say you have 2 favourites saved on your receiver. One might be at extreme West and the other at extreme East of your rotor range. Every time you change between these two the dish has to track right across. Life is just too short!
As an alternative to your rotor you could discuss the alternatives of multi LNBs on a single, fixed, larger dish. Or (even better IMO) a smaller Gregorian dish again with multiple LNBs.
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