Dish Aiming Instructions for Installers Meter Kit & Satellite Finders

Be sure that prior to beginning to align the dish that you have turned the gain knob up sufficient to activate the needle and tone.( Approx 4 to 5 reading on the meter scale. ) Get a good azimuth reading from the compass. Do not take this reading while near the dish as the metal will cause the compass to give a false reading. Stand back a few feet and sight in on something in the distance, like a treetop, house, rock, building etc. (You find the azimuth and elevation for your area by going to the install sceen from the receiver menu and entering your zip code.) Set your elevation setting on the scale on the dish mount. Dish should be loose enough to move up/down and side to side but should be snug enough to hold in place. Attatch one end of the Jumper cable to the output on the LNB and the other end to the Satellite finder LNB input. Then attatch the other meter output to the cable going to your receiver or to your battery pack if your meter comes with one. As you position the dish, move in very small increments(1/4" to 1/2"). The needle will rise up to 10 and you will need to turn the gain knob back down to below 5 or so again, but do no turn it all the way down. As you move the dish some more it will again bury the needle above 10. After two , three or four times, you will not be able to get the reading all the way up. At this point the reading should then fall to a lower position with each movement of the dish, side to side or up and down. When this occurs you know you have peaked the dish to it's maximum signal position. When finished, snug down the dish. You will need to check the dish aiming sceen on the TV to make sure the signal is locked. If it is not, you have peaked the dish on the wrong satellite. That is why the azimuth and compass readings are so important. If you are 10 degrees off you can be on the wrong Bird.

If you are aiming a Dish Network Dish 500(This is the one with the Twin Lnb with two outputs.One has 110w stamped in the side and the other has 119w.) You can attach your jumper cable to the 119w side for aiming your dish with the meter. Keep in mind this LNB also has the switch built in. It is not missing a part. It is set up to hook up one or two receivers. when you hook your receiver up, it does not matter which side you hook up to, either one will work. Make sure your receiver is configured to Dish 500-Twin LNB in the installation setup menu. If after aiming and peaking your dish, you get a "no switch detected" message or you do not receive both 110w and 119w, there is a 99% chance you have the dish mis-aligned by about 9 degrees. You are looking at the wrong satellite with the wrong LNB. In this case 1 LNB is just looking out into space while the other is on a satellite but not the right one. You will need to rotate your dish on the mast approx. 9 degrees to the side. It will fall into place very easily, just watch your meter while slowly rotating(spinning) the dish to one side or the other. This is very common and almost every one who ever aims one of the Dish 500's will make this mistake. It is just part of the alignment process.

If aiming a Dish 300 for Dish Network(Which is the same as a Directv Dish, you may have 1 output or a dual with 2 outputs. You can use either one of the two outputs. Again, make sure your receiver is configured for the dish 300 in your setup screen.