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**Chris** · 09-04-2011, 11:27

I wouldn't worry too much about the scale on the dish ... it's only any use if your bracket is perfectly vertical in the first place.

There are two ways of finding the sweet spot in the middle of the cluster of sats you need in order to get all the channels you want. You either buy a sat finder and whack it on the end of the arm (quick, but costs money) or you crank the thing round and round by hand, constantly checking and re-checking to see if your box is picking anything up yet.

I can't recommend the latter - I have just arrived at our holiday flat to find the dish has taken a real hammering from the coastal weather over winter. It took me 20 minutes to adjust the dish manually, and all I was doing was inching the bracket up and down (i.e. only moving the dish through the vertical plane). The dish mounts themselves are fine - rusted solid, in fact - but the bracket is ever so slightly loose. I got my channels back with the 'upright' part of the arm leaning forwards a fraction, which unfortunately means the weight of the dish and a few good storms will knock it out of line again. I'll be coming back in the summer with a selection of spanners and a sat finder, as I am obviously going to have an ongoing use for one.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,120	Re: B&Q Satellite - Ross freesat box and dish I wouldn't worry too much about the scale on the dish ... it's only any use if your bracket is perfectly vertical in the first place. There are two ways of finding the sweet spot in the middle of the cluster of sats you need in order to get all the channels you want. You either buy a sat finder and whack it on the end of the arm (quick, but costs money) or you crank the thing round and round by hand, constantly checking and re-checking to see if your box is picking anything up yet. I can't recommend the latter - I have just arrived at our holiday flat to find the dish has taken a real hammering from the coastal weather over winter. It took me 20 minutes to adjust the dish manually, and all I was doing was inching the bracket up and down (i.e. only moving the dish through the vertical plane). The dish mounts themselves are fine - rusted solid, in fact - but the bracket is ever so slightly loose. I got my channels back with the 'upright' part of the arm leaning forwards a fraction, which unfortunately means the weight of the dish and a few good storms will knock it out of line again. I'll be coming back in the summer with a selection of spanners and a sat finder, as I am obviously going to have an ongoing use for one.