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    10 foot dish mounting post

    Mesh dishes have no practical wind load advantage over a solid dish of the same dimension. Mesh dishes should always be calculated exactly the same as a solid dish.
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    Baird Mounts - anyone ever hear of them?

    I've used Baird for years and have always been delighted with their quality of workmanship, attention to detail, and the great care taken in preparing their items for shipment. Baird even custom manufactured me a special part when my client encountered a difficult installation. I'm a very...
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    What is the best motor for a 1.2m offset

    I use the SG-2100 on my 1.2m Ku SatelliteAV dish with good results. I'd get the one with the Moteck motor. Since the SG-2100 is a licensed product, they are not all created equally. It's also important to get the larger tube upgrade so backlash is minimized. These tubes are available on eBay.
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    17' BUD Ideas?

    Sounds like a great idea. Any photos? :)
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    My Order with Galaxy Marketing

    You won't find any better people to deal with. They treat customers like royalty.
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    6 foot dish install

    Two inches might be a significant amount of area on the outside of a dish, but hey, we've got less windloading! ;)
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    C on a KU motorized dish

    Excellent advise. :) Not to take anything away from people having some fun experimenting, but.. for C-Band, I have discovered anything less than 1.2m is a waste of time. A six footer (1.8m) is the minimal size for decent gain and acceptable adjacent satellite rejection.
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    Invacom QPH-031 replacement lens

    Thanks for the source info. Kapton also makes a wonderful high voltage insulator and bypass capacitor when sandwiched between two aluminum plates. :up
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    MiniBUD tuning Technique

    So the E-Layer is responsible (55-95 miles up). I thought the attenuation was primarily in the troposphere (about 12 miles up). Nice tip.
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    Side lobe interference with close dishes?

    I've never experience any significant coupling between dishes. Sometimes LNBF's can pick up TI, such as 2.4 GHz wireless telephones. I've experienced signal degradation from reflections from nearby objects, such as walls and vegetation. Your photos show an above ground installation which is...
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    SES-1 Ku 103W

    SES-1 is at 101W, not 103W. Thanks
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    SES-1 Ku 103W

    AMC-1 was replaced last week by replacement satellite SES-1. Has anybody noticed if the 26 degree skew offset is still present? I noticed a couple of fixed receive only systems are showing slightly lower Eb/No.
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    kmax 31 ( cw) sacramento in hd?

    No need to watch local HD on a pizza pan when a small OTA antenna will give you much better quality. :)
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    Ingenious or idiotic? You decide

    Did he forget to use a 30 degree pipe? :confused: