garysnooker:
thanks for your help on ebay a meter/sat finder are about 10 pounds do they work
probably aligned to the old astra1 satellite as opposed to astra2 would i bave to point the dish in a different direction ie up or down or left or right thinking about Freesat
Swing it to the right 9o' (if your using the old dish and it's aligned to astra1),elevation should't need to be altered, although the dish will sag/drop a bit when you loosen the bolt's so need to take this into account.. But remember if you are using that old dish you will need to replace the LNB also as it will almost certainly be an analogue one, and if your intending to use the freesat Humax HDR you'll need a Twin LNB as it requires 2 feeds for full funtionality.
If your fitting a new dish(mini dish) then have a look around at neighbours dishe's to get an idea of general direction, or if you have a compass use that, astra 2 is at 28.2 East.
Those cheap sat finder's do work yes, but not with the greatest accuracy depending on what type it is.