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I agree that the mechanical inclinometer is best avoided.
Tilting it backwards can stop the swinging but it is easy to restart the swing when reinstating it.

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It may be be that your loss of calibration, when using the "clinometer" app., is because you inadvertently touch the recalibrate button.

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If you cannot be bothered to make the gadgets that Vin & I use then use it on the LNB arm & make an arithmetic correction to the elevation angle.

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Quote: Originally posted by Swizz on 19/6/2013

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Whilst criticising the mechanical inclinometer I had forgotten that Vin uses it !
Vin have I got a bad example or how do you cope the undamped swinging.?

David

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It's probably because on both my off-set and cassegrain dishes the little steel "elevation" brackets are mounted at the back and more or less centre of the dish so "swing" is almost eliminated.

See Picts here - http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=552 

On my old 37cm Maxview dish (permanently embedded in bushes in the garden) the bracket slots into a small slot on top of the dish and yes, the inclinometer needle swings like a whip aerial on a ship in a gale!

Fortunately, that dish is a permanent fixture supplying a signal to the caravan when it's parked up in the garden. 

Makes a nice TV equipped "Summerhouse"!

See my "gallery" pictures.

Vin Blanc

Quote: Originally posted by Manty on 20/6/2013

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Hi David mine is not quite as good yours but it does seem to operate anywhere quickly

John

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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 19/6/2013

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Could not agree more with Sool more, even though I spent 7 years working for Sky and 5 years previous to that installing motorised satellite systems.

When it comes to my fortnight campings in the South of France, I leave all my Pro Meters behind at home, some £2.5k's worth of kit, and take along with me a cheapy Digisat Pro meter that is around 10 years old, it's the size of a fag packet and does the job required.

Of course as some are finding now, that there Dish is now not big enough for getting a signal in the South of France when it did in the past, because of recent satellite changes.

And if your dish ain't big enough it does not matter how much you have spent on a meter, you won't get a picture.

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Just decided I might just give the Ardeche a miss this year!

Vin Blanc 

Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 20/6/2013

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Hi Bloke.
        Satellite is not just about telly, when we are in the South of France during July, I quite often listen to UK radio via my satellite system, without even turning the telly on.

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Hi Bloke, my radio is a tiny Sony SW100 shortwave had it for years, and it was great for down in the South of France, until the BBC switched of the Southern Europe SW transmissions a few years back, I can still get BBC on LW down as far as Lyon, but any further South than that it has to be satellite, or tune the wireless into Radio America or Radio Japan etc.

Probably the best analogue radio that Sony ever made, just a pocket version of the 7600.

http://www.mwcircle.org/mw_rec_sw100.htm