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well I got the dish and its a 0179-189 prodelin 1.8, its a beautiful dish, close to 200 lbs. I made a pole up 8 feet long , I used a 4.5 pole, then I went out and sighted by compass where I thought I was going to stick it and I kept moving closer to where I cant stick it and in the end...

its a fixed mount , no motor, might have the odd nut missing havent checked it. In my area theres alot of mess aluminum steel dishes, also alot of scrappers who will mine your teeth for filling for a buck at the recycle yard, because this is no metal I guess it got by them. the guys sick of...

tried c band on a 4 footer, thought I'd do a 6 footer for the heck of it, see what comes of it. Its a well built dish, price is right if its available tomorrow.

thats the baby but it says its a ku band according to the thread link , but there all using them for C band. the backend is similar but with a el/az scale and a 6 inch polar mount, and side arms for lnb support.. what I'm wondering is the mold for making them, all the same for all the dishes...

I have the opportunity to buy 1.8 meter dish that was used in a investment company business I'm told, and taken down from the roof there, I researched it and its a prodelin i believe from the pdf install manual I found on the internet. I only saw it once for like 4 minutes and couldnt find any...

you can use any size pipe that will take the wind load close to it, then go buy 4 muffler clamps weld them back to back in the center , you clamp the one side to the pole that you found for the ground and clamp the 6 to12 inch piece for the dish mount bracket thats the correct size for the dish...

I checked my tps that I scanned with lnb 0 at 12 oclock position, and the H and V jives with lyngsat. will go out and rotate 90 degrees when this weather improves and see what I get. I work out of a cardboard box, when rain and snowing, so I dont get the receiver and tv fried and I'm standing...

zero scale on lnb should be at 3 or 9 o'clock of lnb holder, as you stated in your thread Iceberg. thanks again.

I had it right the first time and then changed it. BSC 421 is what I meant. dyslexia I see I'm having. lol

I attacked it like a ku lnb and set at the zenith , 12 oclock on bracket and lnb 0 scale at 12 oclock and set skew and focal, and it worked out , got 50 percent , will have to play with this more. I dont know enough about c lnbs, but was hoping to find some info on the antenna prongs inside and...

correct position on offset dish bsc241 in lnb holder question I read here that its supposed to be positioned 90 degrees to a 12 oclock position or lnb cap. so that would make the 0-30 scale on the end at 3 or 9 oclock. Looking in the throat I see a horizontal and vertical antenna prongs. which...