12Ft if not bigger thing of plesure.

[ussexplroer]

I for many years have drove by this fine mesh shiney at least 12ft dish. Big monster of a thing. Must have been one of the last built. The back says H-H I beleive and does not have a arm. Just a box on the back. It looks like brand new. Thanks to it being covered by tree's. Yes, strange to have tree's around it but it still has a open view of the sky. I had a friend go knock on the door. The guy said if you want it. Take it. So tommorow. I will attempt to bring it home. This thing is a monster. I'll try to get some pics too. Don't know if he has a receiver or not. But the very sad sad thing. I don't have a place to put this dish. But for free. Who gives a flying Fook. It is also Several panels and I hope it comes apart. So I can store it in a safe place. The feed horn is under weather housing so I don't know if it is C-Band, or both KU and C.

Later,

Josh

 

[linuxman]

Glad you found it!

We'll look forward to the pictures.

Fred

 

[ken2400]

Sounds like a good find Josh. Hope you find a place for it. If you can try to get it in on piece. It cost $$ BUT a U-Haul might work. If not try to get it in two to four sections.

Also now it the time to store it right. Cover it up and keep track of the snow. Snow turns into ice at times and can crush things. Also find some wood/logs and keep the metal from touching the ground.

Hope it bring in many sats and channels for you.

 

[tvropro]

12 footers are great, I love mine It may have an Ajax 180 H to H mount on it. They were very good.

 

[gabshere]

i would also like a 12 fter the hunt continues hey save all you can maybe one day you will have a place you can plant them or find a friend who shares your interest .....those football / hockey games / nascar are stunning from c-band

 

[Likvid]

There was a 16 feet DH spun aluminum antenna on Ebay a short while ago, no one bidded.

 

[ussexplroer]

Update

Well I stopped by the house to examin the dish. Sorry didn't think of taking pictures yet. All the wiring was cut and looked like only a C-band LNB. Bigger than a 6 foot. All panels come apart. So it is just tearing it down carefully and storing it. My guess it has been what way for a while. All the wiring looked old and weathered.

later,

Josh

 

[ussexplroer]

More updates. Defenetly bigger than a 6ft.

Well. I beleive it is 10ft perhaps 12. I did't measure it. Took 2.1/2 hours to take it down and tear it apart. I didn't take pictures. But here is the info.

Mfg: Winguard Satellite Systems.

No model number and the serial number is faded.

Has a weather guard. ( One hornets nest Active)

On the lnb side of things. It does KU band.

The horn is Chaparral. (On the back is a blue box the three small wires?) Don't know what this does.

On one part of the horn. (HEMIT-KU LNB) Super Ice (Ultimate Comercial) "950-1450mhz"

On the other part of the feed horn. (Turbine Super ICE '95) MMIC Technology 67 DB gain Weatherproof housing. (Ultimate 17degree or less.

Total wires to LNB system. 3. Two coax cables. One to KU band the other to C band. Then a 3 wire cable connected to a blue box.


As before the dish was fine mesh. Had a dead bird on it. Almost perfect. I noticed a little dimple towards the bottum of the dish.

As for the motor. We removed the housesing and found another hornets nest.

I do not reconize this type of motor. It has a chain drive from the motor to a quark skrew. The motor turns and the skrew turns thus moving the whole entire dish. It had the next cluster of wires to it and I beleive some instructions. I didn't get a chance to look at it more. Has not been used in a while. There was some mud wasps nest and tons of spider nests.

Also sitting on the motor / platform. NOt sure how to explain this. A birds nest. My brother said guess that is where the dead bird came from.

The guy said he put the dish up with a truck and a small crane. Once again this fooker is huge. He said he didn't think he had the receiver anymore. He also asked what I wanted to use it for. I told him there was new free stuff up there. Nothing like dishnetwork. That is what they had. I told him I would probably have to change out the equiptment and such. But I don't think I need to . Just need to know what those three wires our. I think it is to change between c and ku. I'm sure it was parked on a satellite. So when I put it back up. It shoudl point at something. We first took the dish down. Pretty light when you have three guys. then hauled it over to my place. Then we went back for the motor. That was a beast with all the metal and such. Nice and heavy. Handled by 2 people. THe only thing that was left was the post. Ran out of time. Guy said probably three foot of concrete in the ground. Told him I might be back for it. PRobably a good idea. Then we marked and took apart the panels.

I took the whole entire dish apart for storage. 8 panels. I beleive. I number them side to side. Like 1-1, 2-2, etc.

Sorry I didn't get any pictures. but I think that summed up my story.

later,

Josh

 

[gabshere]

sounds like a ajaks H-H motor usually chain drive (usually covered up) good find

the three wires going to the blue box (servo) is what adjust the polarity and skew
you would need a box that can control it pansats usually do or the analog receiver does

 

[ussexplroer]

I did checkout the pansat

I did checkout the pansat receiver as per suguested. Yes i saw it supports the switching and stuff. But no motor control. I was checking out Vbox items too. That just support dish position.

Currently I'm looking at getting a Older Box Analog to handle everythign and slaving a FTA box to it. But this will be a while. Since I have no place to put the dish.

THanks for any help.

Josh.

 

[turbosat]

Nice dishes

Winegard made some nice dishes, well constructed. I have one of the smaller ones, 7.5 and it worked pretty well for c=band. That bigger dish should be a good reflector for c and ku.
The hornet part scared me, I would've prob left the scene then. How'd you deal with them?

 

[ussexplroer]

Well lets see

My brother chucked the weather housing down the hill.

We let most of them fly away. Partial nest. But we squirted the rest with wd40. Didn't have any wasp/hornet killer.

later,

Josh

 

[linuxman]

If the dish mesh is tiny holes instead of woven mesh and it has the AJAK H-H mount, my guess is that it is a Winegard Pinnacle.

Did it look like these?





If so, you have a pretty good dish!

Fred

 

[Lynskyn]

If there are 8 panels it sounds like a Pinnacle perf - is it an actual mesh or perforated? Very good dishes and deep so the focal distance is critical.

Edit- haha didn't see the picture of the Pinnacle perf in the previous post until after I posted this

 

[ussexplroer]

Pictures.

Yes, that does look like the critter. Heavey Monster of a thing. Except it had a single post comming out of the middle. But basicly looks liek the same dish.

Here is the pictures of it. After being disasembled.

later,

Josh

 

[ussexplroer]

oh and I didn't know the difference

I didn't know the difference between the two. I just know them as mesh dishes compaired to solid one. Yes there is very very tiny holes in it and the panels pretty much pop back out to shape. So that is nice.

later,

Josh

 

[linuxman]

Yep!

Looks like you have a Winegard Pinnacle with an AJAK H-H mount.

That is a great find, and a great dish. Can't tell from the pictures if you have a Chaparral Co-Rotor feed-horn or not. It looks like it. It takes a lot of patience to tune that thing in, but once you do, it will do a great job. It is a very deep dish, with almost no TI or side lobe issues.

I still have to put the final finish tuning on mine this fall and it has been up for 3 or 4 months already.

Fred