John, Two suggestions. Find the closest US location and start there. If you have someone to help you, set the receiver by pressing"menu" the 7,4,5. This takes you to the signal meter. Now slowly rotate the dish while your helper reads the signal meter. You can approximate the necessary elevation by lowering the dish one degree for every 60 miles you are north of the starting point. It is kind of a hunt-and-peck approach but seems to work well for me. If you don't have a helper, you can purchase a satellite signal finder for about $20-$25. It is a meter which is temporarily installed in-line. It allows you to manipulate the dish and see the change in signal strength without even seeing the TV. This is probably similar to the device the DirecTV guy uses to fine-tune your installation at home. Regards, Randy Pickelmann MORNING STAR lying Calvert Marina, Solomons Island, MD

just raise the volume on the TV... the receiver signal meter has an audio tone which can easily be heard thru decks and bulkheads... with FMTV, you can usually watch the screen anyway while turning it, and just go to the dish to adust the elevation pascal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Pickelmann" <rwp_48@yahoo.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Cc: <john_pounder@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: T&T: Direct TV dish pointing > John, > Two suggestions. Find the closest US location and start there. If you > have > someone to help you, set the receiver by pressing"menu" the 7,4,5. This > takes > you to the signal meter. Now slowly rotate the dish while your helper > reads > the signal meter. You can approximate the necessary elevation by lowering > the > dish one degree for every 60 miles you are north of the starting point. > It is > kind of a hunt-and-peck approach but seems to work well for me. > If you don't have a helper, you can purchase a satellite signal finder for > about $20-$25. It is a meter which is temporarily installed in-line. It > allows you to manipulate the dish and see the change in signal strength > without even seeing the TV. This is probably similar to the device the > DirecTV > guy uses to fine-tune your installation at home. > Regards, > Randy Pickelmann > MORNING STAR > lying Calvert Marina, Solomons Island, MD > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.