wat direction should my satellite dish be facing?

Question

some how my image got busted and i need to fix it but i dont want to call the cable company.can somene tell me wat dirrection should my satellite dish be facing??????

i live in california

Answer 1

South west also go to your menus and look at the numbers where it tells you to point the dish. Once you get those numbers go to you dish and have a wrench then just adjust or you can have someone adjust while your inside yelling until you get a good signal around 80 and up is good.

Answer 2

Nope. The purpose of the dish is to grab the signal emanating from the satellite into the "eye" in front of the dish. If the dish can't point to the source then it isn't going to work. When an association gives you little option on mounting a satellite dish then the technician has fewer options too. Therefore, the only options that you might consider is if you can only mount a dish on a back patio. You can try to see if can get a long pole mount to get the shot over the building. It must be very secure. Most reputable techs won't go over 5 ft. for tipping hazards (indep. contractors' might). But don't bother if you live in a first floor trying to shot over a two story building. One more farther out option is to possibly set the dish indoors. I have actually seen this one time where a guy really...I mean really wanted his satellite TV. Had some mounting issues so they set it up inside a second story room to get the shot through a window. But I must say that if you think a satellite dish hanging off your house is ugly try one indoors. But it worked and that guy still has his HD channels. Good luck.

Answer 3

You do have a problem. Unless you are very lucky you won't fix this without knowing both what direction to aim and what elevation to select. Along with that you need a compass and a level with a protractor built in.

The satellite you are looking for is in Geosynchronous orbit above the equator. Don't quote me on the altitude but 23,000 miles sticks in my head.

Your dish should be pointed generally south but the exact direction depends on the satellite you are trying to hit and your exact location. Elevation will also be determined by how close you are to the equator and also by how many degrees from due south the satellite is orbiting.

Sorry, I know that isn't what you want to hear but it is the truth. Good luck on your attempt.

Answer 4

Many satellite dish recievers have a menu which allows you to enter the zip code and figure out what direction to point it in. If you can't figure it out call the satellite company. It will give you the degrees, so you need a compass. You'll also have to figure out how many degrees to point the dish up or down. Have someone watching the TV signal. Most satellite recievers also have a function which tells you signal strength. It will raise the closer you get to pointing directly at the satellite.

You have to POINT it at the satellite in geosynchronous orbit. That means that the satellite never moves relative to the earths movement.

Answer 5

A satellite dish is a type of parabolic antenna designed with the specific purpose of transmitting signals to and/or receiving from satellites. A satellite dish is a particular type of microwave antenna. Satellite dishes come in varying sizes and designs, and are most commonly used to receive satellite television.

The parabolic shape of a dish reflects the signal to the dish’s focal point. Mounted on brackets at the dish's focal point is a device called a feedhorn. This feedhorn is essentially the front-end of a waveguide that gathers the signals at or near the focal point and 'conducts' them to a low-noise block downconverter or LNB. The LNB converts the signals from electromagnetic or radio waves to electrical signals and shifts the signals from the downlinked C-band and/or Ku-band to the L-band range. Direct broadcast satellite dishes use an LNBF, which integrates the feedhorn with the LNB. (A new form of omnidirectional satellite antenna, which does not use a directed parabolic dish and can be used on a mobile platform such as a vehicle was announced by the University of Waterloo. [1])


Modern dishes intended for home television use are generally 43 cm (18") to 80 cm (31") in diameter, and are fixed in one position, for Ku-band reception from one orbital position. Prior to the existence of Direct broadcast satellite services, home users would generally have a motorised C-band satellite dish of up to 3 metres in diameter for reception of channels from different satellites. Overly small dishes can still cause problems, however, including rain fade and interference from adjacent satellites.

Motorised satellite dishes are still popular with enthusiasts, and three competing standards, which are often all supported by a set-top box, DiSEqC, USALS, and 36v Positioners.

A common misconception is that the LNBF (low-noise block/feedhorn), the device at the front of the dish, receives the signal directly from the atmosphere. See, for instance, this BBC News 24 [2] countdown that shows a "red data stream" being received by the LNBF directly instead of being beamed to the dish, which because of its parabolic shape will collect the signal into a smaller area and deliver it to the LNBF.

In Europe the frequencies used by DBS services are 10.7 - 12.75 GHz on two polarizations H and V. This represents a total of 4.1 GHz of spectral bandwidth which is split into 4 polarization/frequency bands. On the coaxial cable between the LNBF and the receiver frequencies 950 - 2150 MHz are allocated for the satellite service. Lower frequencies are allocated to Cable and Terrestrial TV, FM radio, etc. There are 4 bands - Vertical High, Vertical Low, Horizontal High and Horizontal Low, each of these bands needs a separate cable from the LNBF to the receiver or the receiver needs to select one of the 4 bands at a time.

In a single receiver residential installation there is a single cable and the receiver uses different power supply voltages and pilot tones to instruct the LNB to select one of the 4 bands. In a larger installation each band is given its own cable and there are 4 cables from the LNB to a switching matrix, which allows the connection of multiple receivers in a star topology using the same signalling method as in a single receiver installation.

The quality of a satellite dish is usually expressed as a G/T ratio. This is the "gain" (I.E.: signal amplification) of the dish divided by the amount of noise the LNB produces. The gain depends on many factors including surface finish, accuracy of shape, feedhorn masking, and size (the bigger the dish the better). The amount of noise an LNB produces depends on design, temperature, and losses in the cables.

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Answer 6

If you have a satellite dish, why are you calling the cable company? What direction you point the dish depends where in the country you are located. I am in Los Angeles, CA and my dish is pointed southeast.

Answer 7

The Southern sky

Answer 8

go ahead and call the company the exact path to the satelite is
not that general and they should have technicians over the phone with the exact degrees if u like to set it yourself provided you have the right equipment to shoot the path and test it too testing calibration and verifying through the co. can be important

Answer 9

towards where they send the signals!!!
the company you bought it from should tell you though.
I'm sorry but you need to phone the company

Answer 10

southern skies? I thougt specifically they had to face North.