[MTJR]

Back again after all this time with my trusty (?) Ross box. This one has left me completely clueless.

Originally I had the dish mounted on a basketball pole in the garden. However, I recently tired of standing the thing up again after it was blown over by the wind so made the decision to hang it on the wall being more secure, etc.

I made the decision to invest in a Sat Finder to help me with alignment and set about the job in hand. The position the dish is in now is approximately 2 metres back and 1 metre higher than it was on the basketball pole.

Elevation set to 25 degrees and ensuring as much as humanly possible that the thing was level I then slowly rotated the dish to find my satellite. No matter what I do I can't seem to get anything other than the Astra 1 sat with all the German/French/Austrian stuff on it. And stranger still I find that same signal (Astra 1) in two places (admittedly not far apart). The Astra 1 signal is very strong giving me a maximum reading on the Sat Finder on the lowest dB setting (turned all the way to the left).

To check the equipment I put the dish back where I originally had it and hey presto, there's Astra 2 again. Back up on the wall and we have the same situation again with Astra 1.

After consulting with DishPointer I notice that Astra 1 is 10 degress more south and 2.8 degress less elevation. So I drop the elevation and turn ever so slightly to the left and.......NOTHING. Where is the damn thing? Why does someone keep moving Astra 2 when I'm not looking? Why have I been up a ladder for the last three days?

It's driving me nuts! Any guidance/help/advice gratefully received before I lose the plot completely and stick a mallet through the thing.

Yours, ever so calmly,
John