Installation and alignment of TVRO systems
 
        How to align a TVRO dish     Alignment issues for small offset systems        On Line Declination Calculator   Offset angle Calculator    

USNO web page to give sun angles, to help find true south.   This is especially useful in early March and late September/ early October, when the sun is close to the Clarke belt, as it will show you approximately where the sats are in the sky.

Some computer programs to help understand TVRO system alignment
TVCALC   Calculates sat positions, sun and moon positions, time calculations, more....   {Note, due to a bug that I haven't found yet, the sat positions calculated are slightly off, usually less than a degree, but the other calculations are quite accurate.}
{Also note, you need to download satellite elements that are not obsolete.  See the  Kelso  site for current KEPs  Note the Kelso file is named geo.txt, so  you should rename this file tvro.tle..  See the page on  Satellite Tracking   .}

Dish Calc   and  DishCalc2    Small calculator and graphic program to calculate F/D gain and other dish parameters.

satal.gif   SatView   A small graphic graphic file and a program that helps you to understand how declination affects tracking. 

MODIFIED DECLINATION METHOD   A page that tries to explain the difference between alignment using the traditional method and the so called "MODIFIED declination method. 

Misc    Lubrication hints   

                     From other sources
GEOMAG    From NOAA web page.  Program, to calculate magnetic deviation for any location.  Old version no longer available.
  NEW-GEOMAG-VERSION-53  More accurate for 2005-2010 

Online GEOMAG  An online version of the above GEOMAG program from NOAA

Sun Outage Calculator     I've never tried this, but downloaded it, and can't find the url link now.

GEO-ORBIT WEB PAGE     This has to be the best site on the web for installation of TVRO systems.

SADOUN INSTALLATION PAGE     This has a lot of good info and calculators, mostly specific to 1M Ku dishes and DVB reception.  Note, they use traditional south declinations instead of the preferred "modified" declination of a western sat, so I don't recommend their declination values.