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Acquired a 8 ft spun aluminum dish yesterday. A DH perforated with a Starcast H to H mount. In really great condition. The original installer clued me into this one - belonged to a nice elderly couple up in the high desert.
The H to H mount has a huge 3" x 38" ring, easy declination adjustment, turnbuckle elevation, powered by a Chaparral ballscrew linear actuator motor. "Milk stool" feedhorn support with 3 focal length adjustable legs.
Feedhorn scalar still has the gold anodizing. Holes in the dish are almost pencil diameter so its its C-band only for this dish. This shallow dish has good gain according to the installer.
Focal length of 36" & f/D of 0.375. 90 inches from lip to lip(8 ft "nominal" diameter).
Though not worth much they included the Chaparral Cheyenne analog IRD, UHF remote & other goodies. Even the original sales brochures & manuals for DH & Chaparral were intact. I'll scan these to pdf & upload later on.
Anchored the dish to 2x4s mounted in the P/U stake holes with deck screws through holes at 4 places & cross-strapped the dish down - gently. Shipping pads at both ends of the bed to cushion the dish.
Lots of steaming gawks on the highways & freeways back home.
Blessed desert climate.
But hey - its horizon to horizon.
This one should remind Anole of his find in the 2009 Adventures in dish hunting.
The H to H mount has a huge 3" x 38" ring, easy declination adjustment, turnbuckle elevation, powered by a Chaparral ballscrew linear actuator motor. "Milk stool" feedhorn support with 3 focal length adjustable legs.
Feedhorn scalar still has the gold anodizing. Holes in the dish are almost pencil diameter so its its C-band only for this dish. This shallow dish has good gain according to the installer.
Focal length of 36" & f/D of 0.375. 90 inches from lip to lip(8 ft "nominal" diameter).
Though not worth much they included the Chaparral Cheyenne analog IRD, UHF remote & other goodies. Even the original sales brochures & manuals for DH & Chaparral were intact. I'll scan these to pdf & upload later on.
Anchored the dish to 2x4s mounted in the P/U stake holes with deck screws through holes at 4 places & cross-strapped the dish down - gently. Shipping pads at both ends of the bed to cushion the dish.
Lots of steaming gawks on the highways & freeways back home.
Blessed desert climate.
But hey - its horizon to horizon.
This one should remind Anole of his find in the 2009 Adventures in dish hunting.
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