[Shop-talk] u-verse

[Arvid Jedlicka]

> Dishes tend to be poorly aimed.  adjust until the signal is "good enough"
> not adjust until it's as high as it can  be.  So a marginal signal will 
> get
> unusable in bad weather than a strong one.

I will agree with "poorly aimed" and the difference between "signal on the 
meter" and "maximum signal strength".. I have installed and aimed both my 
old dish and the new HD dish. The old dish was reasonably tolerant of aim to 
the point where I could aim it using the receivers signal strength meter and 
get good results. The HD dish not only required that I get an Acutrac III 
signal strength meter - but that was a 'tool purchase' - but the signal 
strength is very sensitive changes to the dish rotation, azimuth and 
elevation, especially on the most westerly satellites. I was very surprised 
at how small the changes were on the 'fine adjustment' as I went thru the 
alignment incantation multiple times refining the signal strength. I could 
not imagine a "paid by the job" installer having this much patience to do 
the fine tuning.

Arvid