I hope ya'll missed us. We did move to our new location at South Markum, space 125 and set the dish up in three locations and could not get a passing signal. We moved to a space where there was more open sky and still could not get a signal. We spent the night and packed up our stuff and came back to South Sandusky, space 118.

We moved in here around noon and setup and we are here for a while. And it has rained the whole time. And it has been raining this morning. A good hard rain. We came back to a place where we had gotten our last passing signal. And we did learn a lesson on dish setup and signal strength and having a problem.

Here is the problem.
We could get a signal strenght at SM of 65 but not a passing test score. The best we saw would be 54. We moved back to SS and we got a signal strength of 71 but not a passing score. We rechecked the numbers for our gps location, the angle, rotation and skew several times and never could get a passing score. I could understand that at SM with the tree canopy we were shooting thru. There was a hole in the trees we could get a signal thru but I guessed the canopy was diffusing the signal to the point of not passing. This still may be true and a problem. The only exception is at Superior, NE we where under the canopy and got a passing score. The hole in the canopy at our second location was much larger and we should have been able to get a passing score. The signal strength at all these locations was the best that we could get.

And now the solution.
We have adjusted the bubbles so they are in the middle of the glass. We found that the manual setting for the cros pol test was adjustable and involved the skew value. By adjusting the skew similar to sweepng the sky, the test number would and could be adjusted to a passing score. We found this information in the instructions from our supplier Dustyfoot. After making the adjustment, we have a passing score of 74 when we were looking at mid 40's prior to adjusment. So, if your having similar problems, try adjusting the skew for a better number.