Of course, who says you need fancy motors and computers to point a satellite dish anyway? If you work on your arm muscles a bit, you could become the satellite pointer.

For fine dish-pointing adjustments, I was guided by watching the signal in the frequency spectrum analyzer built into SatDump, an open-software package designed for decoding satellite ...

If your satellite picture becomes frozen ... Dish has moved There can be problems even if the dish is pointing only slightly in the wrong direction. Strong winds can cause this.

The dish needs to point to the satellite whose signal you want to receive. The dish can move in high winds, so it's worth checking it is pointing in a similar direction to your neighbour's.