Setting the longitude and latitude of a Direct TV satellite is a true guess-and-check endeavor that could give an installation specialist a headache, let alone an untrained, unprofessional do-it-yourself consumer. However, this longitude-latitude adjustment can be done successfully, as long as the Direct TV satellite receiver and the signal-meter screen are fully utilized and if you know the location of the nuts and bolts for the elevation- and azimuth-positioning arms.
Instructions
1. Plug in your satellite receiver to your television, and power it up. To do so, use the included standard A/V cables---these are three-pronged wires that are red, yellow and white in color. Plug them into the color-matching sockets on the back of the television and the satellite receiver box. With these connections made, make sure that the wiring from the satellite dish itself is led down to the satellite receiver, but do not use splitters on this wire, as it will deaden the signal.
2. After plugging the satellite receiver in to your power outlet and turning the receiver on, wait for the receiver to initialize and for the signal-meter screen to come up on your television. Have someone watch the signal-meter screen as you stand by the dish.
3. Make sure that the dish is structurally sound and that it is already pointing toward the southern sky. If it is not, make this correction immediately.
4. Adjust the elevation, which is the up and down movement of the dish that accommodates for the longitude. Loosen the nuts on the elevation bolts and then move the dish up and down slightly, waiting for reports back from your partner at the signal-meter screen. Use this meter as a guide to see how much change you must make for the longitude.
5. Adjust the azimuth of the dish, the left-right movement of the Direct TV satellite that accommodates its latitude. To do so, loosen the nuts at the LNB arm of the dish. (For more on your specific dish and the elevation/azimuth adjustments for your specific location, refer to your Direct TV manual.) Then, move the dish slightly left or right, waiting for updates from the signal-meter screen.
6. Continue making these elevation and azimuth corrections until the signal-meter screen gives a reading of between 70 and 80, which is considered optimal for a Direct TV satellite. Once this reading is achieved, you will have correctly changed the latitude and longitude of your Direct TV satellite dish.
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