Analog Satellite Signal Finder Strength Meter with LNB to REC Connector and dB Level Control

Update: I had some time to play with this meter and finally figured out how to use it. Once you've got it hooked up to your receiver and lnb, you turn the attenuation knob till the meter starts "squeezing". Keep adjusting the knob until it reads 5 or a bit more. Then aim your antenna until the reading jumps. You should be pretty close.You really need to have your antenna pre set to the elevation and skew angle (assuming multiple lnbs) and have the pole the antenna is mounted on as close to vertical as possible.Bought this to help align my Dish system while on the road with my RV. Could never find a satillite with it. I ended up guessing and running in and out of the camper until I got a decent signal on two birds. Hooked meter back in and it still did not do anything even when the dish was aligned and I was receiving programming.This is my third one of these cheapo meters that were completely useless. From now on I'm bringing my receiver our with an extension cord and a 5" HDMI monitor. I'll point the dish with the receiver.WHen I look at some of the "higher end" satilite finders ($100 and up), virtually all the reviews say "Does not work in North America"

This meter is excellent. I didn't know what I was doing since I did not use the meter before. The instructions help very little. I don't know who wrote them, but they look like a direct translation from Mandarin to English. I found a great You Tube video for installing a Dish 1000.2 where the installer is using one of these meters. After watching the video, it call came together. After I peaked the Dish outside, I went inside the house and check my Dish receiver. It was showing a 90% signal strength reading on satellite 119 and then 67-70% on satellites 110 and 129. As some wise person once stated: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.". I left it right where it was.

A couple of years back Dish Network sent a tech to convert my HD two dish system to a one dish system. The installer mounted the dish on the old second dish pole which was just beside and behind a Bradford Pear tree. Fast forward two years and the tree has grown out so much that it had begun to shadow the dish and I start getting rain fade in a sprinkle. So I decide to move the dish to a mount on the side of the house. Worked OK but still not good and still with easy rain fade.Rather than pay the $15.00 fee to have a technician re-aim my dish (and possibly get charged the full fee for having moved it myself) I decide to buy this meter. The meter arrived today and in 30 minutes I had the dish aligned and working perfectly again (azimuth and elevation were both off). The meter is easy to use and the tone is loud enough to hear outside some distance away. I highly recommend this product to all the other DIYers.

after someone had fun removing the bolts and nuts from my dish... and then bending the arm with the LNB down, I found it rather hard to aim while listening to the droning tone of the receiver. This made adjustment SO much easier. With Dish, go to satellite pointing > menu - 6 - 1 -1, choose 110... aim dish the best you can. Then choose 129 (if you have HD, and I hope you do), then adjust the skew (4 nuts, and rotate like a steering wheel) until you have good signal on 129. if the arm isn't bent all to hell (like mine) 110 shouldn't change at all. Enjoy.

This works. Just be careful with your connections. The needle is a little too bouncy and there is not a good way to attach the unit to something while using. Two hands are needed to move the dish and one to hold the unit. Since I only have two hands I was thinking of using Velcro backing to attached it to my pole when using. That may reduce the bouncing and I can mount it at eye sight.

Works but the noise will drive you, and any neighbors at a park, nuts. A couple pieces of tape helps. It does tell you A satellite is there, just not which one. Use it in conjunction with a phone app for direction and you have a good combination. TV will work with it in place, just remember to turn down the volume on the finder. RV shops sell theses for double or triple the price.

Not really what I wanted. It would find a satellite. It would not tell you which, or align 2 of them. It confirmed I have a signal, but my problem is that 61.5 is good while 72 seems off by a little.It requires the receiver be connected to power the meter. The scale jumps for 0 to 100%. Never in between.I would give it 2 stars, but it does tell you if there is a signal or not.

This item worked great, I had to set up a receiver and dish at my cabin in northern WI. It's remote everything runs off a generator. I had the elevation and azimuth setting from Directv. You have to have these to get some idea where your at. I hooked up the SF-95 and adusted first the azimuth, moving the dish alittle at atime until the needle hit 10, then I turned it down to 5 and adjusted it again until it wouldn't go any higher, then locked that setting down. I did the same with each adjustment on the dish, went inside my cabin and saw I had 95% signal strength. It doesn't get any simpler then that