Recent content by jamie1969

I installed the scalar ring and it made the signal stronger but I have not been able to fine tune yet. My cheap signal meter I have is pegged out on most sates and wife doesn’t want to set and help me....maybe my meter needs replaced. I left it hooked up once and it rained on it and I had to...

scalar ring Yes that pipe was from an old steam heating system. It was 3 1/2" pipe and had that little 2" pipe coming out of it. I went back and cut the old 4" post down and it went right over my pipe and I welded it at the height I wanted. Worked good seemed like I could have mounted dish...

A success story A success story Well a week long journey comes to an end. Post was set last night and this afternoon a buddy came over and we installed the mount and dish and pointed south (89.0w my south sat) and hooked up the wires and signal meter and looked for my first signal. It took...

site survey Did site survey today trying to find best spot for dish. My little 30in motorized dish gets mostly everything from Amazonas 61.0 w to G27 129.0 w… but my c band dish is going to have a harder time getting the view my little dish has so I spent my time today trying to find the best...

no real declination adjustments Another thing that bugs me that this mount has no real declination adjustment besides the 2 other bolt holes…like other buds I have seen they have some kind of nut and bolt to adjust the declination. Maybe the original installers had these things dead on with the...

inside cover Ok pulled cover off the back and the white wire was not in there so I looked and it was taped up just outside the motor (picture 1). Just ended were the arrow points. Anyway inside it looks like it had a place to be hooked up.(picture2) well that’s what it looks like inside the...

well it sanded and painted looks new to me...lol Mount was cleaned and painted flat black rustoleum made it look almost new to me anyway . And new bolts, old ones where vary rusty some broke when taking them off. The actuator came real clean the screw did look bad but a wire grinder worked...

update Actuator works thx for a the replies...good info...just an update the motor works with old boat battery so was cleaning it up and the arm screw is stuck. I tried a pipe wrench and the treads started getting bite marks in them so i tried a small vice to hold the treads and it would not...

I’m not much of a poster kind of guy, but do read everything and I’ve been using 30" dish and motor and I have been reading about C band and found a 10 foot aluminum dish. I went and picked it up today. Forgot the camera at home so had it down and home before pictures. Don’t know much about...