About 9 months ago I replaced my SG-2100A which I was never totally happy with with a PowerTech DG-380.
Up until yesterday I never managed to get good tracking from the DG-380 - pole is plumb (measured with calibrated digital level) and I'd get a booming signal on 7°E (my closest satellite to due south) but performance rapidly dropped off away from 7°E. It was already noticable poorer at 19.2°E and by 28.2°E I was getting nothing. Periodically I used to go out and fiddle with it (less so...
motor setup idiocy
Up until yesterday I never managed to get good tracking from the DG-380 - pole is plumb (measured with calibrated digital level) and I'd get a booming signal on 7°E (my closest satellite to due south) but performance rapidly dropped off away from 7°E. It was already noticable poorer at 19.2°E and by 28.2°E I was getting nothing. Periodically I used to go out and fiddle with it (less so...
motor setup idiocy