A few years ago, I sourced a used Perfect brand 7.5-foot dish from somebody located about 0.3 degrees latitude north of me and 1.3 degrees longitude west of me. I disassembled the dish myself so it appeared at the time to have been in use at some point at that house in the past.
I want to do the minimum just to be able to check if I can receive any C-band signals at all with this dish at my location. If I can receive anything, then I will get more serious about the refurbishment and install.
Is it reasonable to assume the declination and elevation settings shouldn't need changing initially in this case to receive some signals? My plan is to do the true south aim of the polar mount, then "motor" west about 51 or 53 degrees to my closest C-band satellite which is either 89W or 91W. There aren't many satellites visible for me near 64 degrees west longitude. One catch is I have no working jack yet, so motor means I push it using armstrong method.
Of course I will get a Titanium C1-PLL LNB installed once the dish is in position to use it.
One reason to keep current declination and elevation settings is those nuts are totally rusted and I can't move them right now. Also, I want to reduce the number of variables on the path to searching for transponders.
What is best product from my local Home Depot to attack this rust issue should I get to that stage?
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I want to do the minimum just to be able to check if I can receive any C-band signals at all with this dish at my location. If I can receive anything, then I will get more serious about the refurbishment and install.
Is it reasonable to assume the declination and elevation settings shouldn't need changing initially in this case to receive some signals? My plan is to do the true south aim of the polar mount, then "motor" west about 51 or 53 degrees to my closest C-band satellite which is either 89W or 91W. There aren't many satellites visible for me near 64 degrees west longitude. One catch is I have no working jack yet, so motor means I push it using armstrong method.
Of course I will get a Titanium C1-PLL LNB installed once the dish is in position to use it.
One reason to keep current declination and elevation settings is those nuts are totally rusted and I can't move them right now. Also, I want to reduce the number of variables on the path to searching for transponders.
What is best product from my local Home Depot to attack this rust issue should I get to that stage?
Added images.
Sent from my SM-G950W using the SatelliteGuys app!
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