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I've retired from that station, but I'll try to get down there and copy the manual in the next week.

I've had one on my 1.2m Channel Master for a few years now. A paging co. used them on towers all over Michigan to remotely pan the dish to alternate positions. As paging has become mostly obsolete the were dismantling the network and the tech gave me a couple for free. I don't know where they...

Huh...? :coco

Any chance to put up two dishes? I'd go C only on the 10ft. and Prime focus Ku lnb on the 7.5 or 8ft. dish. A C/Ku combo will work fine on C band, but the Ku will be compromised. On the other side of the fence is the fact that 7.5 ft is already installed and aligned. You can try a C/Ku combo for...

I just had my 8ft Andrew wraped last week. Works good. Cost $80

The Winegard I had used a button hook mount for the lnbf. A button hook makes adjusting scaller and FD easier. My dish is long gone after I fell off the ladder and into the dish and bent it up. But I still have the button hook. Here is a picture of it moved to another dish. You can have the...

Looks like a Winegard I once had.

I tried to verify this, couldn't find a manual for the GI 650, but the GI 450 manual shows only +5v, pulse, and gnd. connections.

UPDATE: I took a closer look at the photo and zoomed in. I think GI Joe is correct about it being a potentiometer analog encoder and will not work with Vbox and most other positioners. You might be able to modify the Von Weise to use a magnet/reed switch. In this picture you can read the value...

Some versions of the Von Weise actuator have a optical sensor and require three wires. +5 volts, pulse out, and ground. I'll take a look at mine and try to identify the terminals. It will work with a Vbox if you provide an external 5 volts from a cell phone charger or similar.

Magic, I checked out HD disc with a compass. It clearly alternates from N to S when rotated.

Magic, or anyone else with the optical sensor. I have a Von Weis that the sensor quit working after a lightning storm. The optics were still working, but there is a driver transistor that shorted out. I pulled a NPN transistor from an old circuit board and got it working again. The stock optical...

This came out of a Western Digital 3.5" drive. I took apart a smaller 2.5" Fuji drive from a laptop, but it did not have the magnet disk.

For you guys working on modified sensors, you might experiment with this. I had read that there is a magnetic disc found in many IDE hard discs that have multiple magnetic fields embedded with in. Here is a magnetic disc I pulled from an old HD. I sprinkled iron filings on a paper. When I...

Magic, It's not for my purposes, I'm just trying to bring light to the overstated subject often found in these forums about excessive attention toward high actuator count. I'm trying to discourage members into high count mods to any dish mover as it will get you no improvement in dish...

You are overdoing it with all those counts per revolution. Slicing up 1deg into dozens of counts is unnecessary when the accuracy of the dish beam width is much wider at +/- 2 deg. Loose the double count and drop down to 2 magnets and your AJAX will work fine.

I just came in here to suggest the contact bounce as I was researching the subject but I see you guys are on it. Here is a article that address this with external circuits or just Google contact bounce. http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_4/4.html I use ordinary un-shielded phone wire...

It weighs a ton. Takes two people to get it up on the post. Gona have to make a road trip!

I have posted on SatGuys classifieds a 9ft. dish and other accessories, several items for free. I thought to make a video showing how these items could be packaged up to make a great C-band setup. http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/video-9ft-c-band-dish-package-offer.337995/ Check it out :)

That elevation bolt is a common 3/4" concrete anchor bolt. You can buy those at a concrete or block supply co. Maybe even at some hardware stores that carry masonry supplies.

Something has changed. NBC has always come in good for me on my Raptor, but this week has little jitters.

Agree with this. A box wrench pushes equally on all sides of the nut. An open wrench or even worse a adjustable wrench squeezes the nut on two sides making it harder to turn. Also use some heat! :flame:

Unsupported is common with many products in under a year. There is aways message boards etc. that might get you going. Maybe still has a life.

I've posted in Sat guys classifieds some stuff I'm giving away and a few items for sale. Check it out at http://www.satelliteguys.us/forums/12-SatelliteGuys-Classifieds

I've got one of these 2.8m Scientific Atlanta dishes I will put up for free. My health took a turn and I have an un-finished project on my hands. Was going to bolt a Ajax 180 H-H motor to the back of the reflector and have a C-band orthomode feed that fits this dish and a 9ft tall 5" pipe, all...