Eutelsat 16°E dish alignment

A Balkan and central European position with regional platforms, and beams serving sub-Saharan Africa.

Where to aim from your city

Azimuth is the compass bearing measured clockwise from true north, elevation is the angle above the horizon, and skew is the LNB rotation in degrees clockwise seen from behind the dish. Values are for Eutelsat 16°E at 16.0°E.

City	Azimuth	Elevation	LNB skew
Belgrade	186.3°	38.2°	-4.5°
Zagreb	180.0°	37.3°	+0.0°
Sarajevo	183.5°	39.4°	-2.5°
Skopje	188.1°	41.2°	-6.0°
Sofia	190.7°	40.2°	-7.9°
Bucharest	194.3°	37.8°	-10.1°
Athens	192.4°	45.2°	-9.8°
Tirana	185.8°	42.1°	-4.3°
Ljubljana	177.9°	37.0°	+1.4°
Budapest	184.1°	35.3°	-2.8°
Vienna	180.5°	34.6°	-0.3°
Istanbul	199.4°	40.8°	-14.5°

Not on the list? The pointing tool works these out for your exact coordinates and then guides the dish onto them with your phone's compass and tilt sensors.

Setting the dish

Set the skew on the ground, before the dish goes up — rotating the LNB afterwards is awkward and easy to get wrong.
Set the elevation against the mounting tube. Remember that an offset dish points roughly 20 to 25 degrees higher than its face is tilted, so the tube angle is smaller than the elevation in the table.
Sweep the azimuth slowly, a couple of degrees at a time, pausing a few seconds for the receiver to lock.

Take the compass bearing a few metres away from the dish. The reflector and mount deflect a phone's magnetometer by ten to twenty degrees at close range, while the tilt sensor is unaffected.

Dish size and elevation

The satellite sits comfortably high across this region — 35° or more — so obstructions are rarely the problem and aim accuracy dominates. A 60 cm dish has a beam about 3° wide at Ku band; 2° off already halves the signal.