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Hotbird 13°E dish alignment

Eutelsat's flagship position and the most channel-dense in Europe: Italian networks, a very large free-to-air selection and broadcasts across the Middle East and North Africa.

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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 Hotbird 13°E at 13.0°E.

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

1. Set the skew on the ground, before the dish goes up — rotating the LNB afterwards is awkward and easy to get wrong.
2. 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.
3. 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

Elevations here run between roughly 23° and 42°, low enough that a hedge or a neighbouring roof can block the path entirely. Check the sight line before drilling.