FTA receivers, who uses them??

You are on your way. Using the http://www.dishpointer.com/ online, I found the line of site they give you is dead on to your actual bearing. I had a 12 degree declination on the west coast (yours may not be much less) and tried to factor that into their line of site they gave me. I was WAY off. I recommend lining it right up to their recomendation (they already factor the declination in) . I also recommend you bring a angle finder up there and mount it to your arm so as to find a true elevation, so much easier to scan left to right with the known elevation. I took a laser level (leveled) and pointed it at my dish. I took a round mirror out of wifes old compact and taped it to dish about in the middle. Hit it with the laser and lowered its elevation so it reflected back to the LNB cover, right in the middle. I looked at the angle finder and found the angle of the arm was -8.4 degrees lower than the actual dish convergence. The side scale was worthless. much too small to be accurate. So my actual dish elevation number of 44.9 (G-19) is actually 36.5 on the angle finder. ONce I got this down, finding G-19 was pretty easy, although it is just a pinpoint out there. I took a straw and glued it to the back of the dish at an angle so I can look through it down to my roof tiles. I put a little pushpin in the tile as an 'aiming stake' to tell me exactly where G-19 is. I swung the dish off it and just used the straw 'scope' to point the dish again, I was right on it. Ill have a few more pins once I find a few more FTA sats. Once you find one and ID it properly, you can find the next one pretty quickly. Also make sure you are on an active transponder when you go down to check Q strength. I was on an inactive transponder so I never got a Q reading until I did a blind scan (I knew I was aligned by my Birdog meter) What are you aiming for? Ill tell you an active transponder if you are shooting for G-19.