How to Use a Directional Compass to Install a Dish
- 1). Locate north on your compass. You can do that by rotating the compass until the needle is lined up with the north direction on the compass.
- 2). Find Texas. The satellites that you are looking for are in orbit just south of Texas. So if you are in the Northwest you will want to find southeast on your compass. Keeping the needle lined up north, look at the compass and locate the direction of southeast.
- 3). Point your dish in the direction your compass tells you to. Now that you have the dish pointed in the right direction you can adjust your dish with the coordinates you got from the receiver.
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