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    Trouble with 8Ft dish, notfinding any bird.

    After following the wise counsels above, Please cover the centre hole. The dish does come with that cover. To my great surprise I found that it makes a great difference with the center cover on. My reasoning cannot explain that...may be someone here
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    Crown-sat.com Anyone bought here?

    Just to add my salt to the discussion. i bought my S9 from Crownsat a month ago. I was very pleased with the box and the way they handled it.It arrived in 2 weeks time. My friend ordered before me and I followed. He had some scratches on the front panel and they send him a new one free of...
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    Russian-Polish invetions: dielectric plates and reflector

    What material is used for the dielectric? Is it sold somewhere?
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    Non-moving C-Band Project

    Wonderful!!!!!
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    Orbitron 10 ft- actuator attachment

    It's true but why should it block the centre hole for water drainage.May be then it should go between the two hub plate.
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    Orbitron 10 ft- actuator attachment

    I'll put it on pole first to see if the bar fits somewhere. But I'll have to unscrew at least two bolts to put across.This may deform the dish.I don't know if it will fit between the elevation bar when I put it where I mentioned. As for the printing plates, they perform quite well. My dish was...
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    Orbitron 10 ft- actuator attachment

    I made an earlier post regarding a missing intermediate plate for a new orbiton 10 ft .I did not get the plate but I cut one out of alu sheet and assembled the dish. I have one problem now : How to fix the actuator to the dish. I found only one black square rod among the parts. I do not know...
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    Intermediate plate for Orbitron 10 foot

    Thank you guys. If I do not get one I'll try cut one from a metal sheet. I want at least the dimensions.The manual says " 9/16" x 2 1/4" fingers". If it is same dimension as top plate,then it will be easier. it also says "There is also a thinner 10 1/2" diameter silver plate" But 10.5 in = 26.7...
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    Intermediate plate for Orbitron 10 foot

    I recently got hold of a new Orbitron 10' mesh. Some hardware are missing. The most important is the intermediate hub plate. I know it will be difficult to get here. Can somebody give the dimensions for this plate. This is what I got from the manual I've downloaded from our forum: The...
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    Invacom QPH-031 LNBF Max Size Dish

    can anybody confirm that in fact the invacom can work with 2.4m offset with improved results. I used one LNBF on 2.4m prodelin and it gives me approximatively same result as 1.2m.
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    c-band multi-feed sat dish

    was that diificult to fine tune.
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    c-band multi-feed sat dish

    See what this guy from Pakistan has done. 7 lnbs on a dish. Very encouraging pics
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    c-band multi-feed sat dish

    Bravo Agers. Could we get a front view pic? Are the two sats Telstar 10 and PAS 7/10? I will do same when my dish up.
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    Wire size for 24" actuator

    Now I understand. A longer actuator will track with better precision.
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    Wire size for 24" actuator

    Thank you. it will be 40 ft only. I'll try to find a suitable cable. I find it ugly to run two cables, one big and one small up to the dish.