@OP
The ONLY sure fire way of aligning a dish is to get a sat signal meter, even being 1 degree out can mean the difference between a working or not working signal
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See this thread for details about setting up a dish and pointing it in the right direction (might be a freesat thread but it basically is the same group of sats)
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...hlight=freesat