The Pinnacle is a heavy perforated 8 segment dish. It has a F/D .278 Very deep dish. The other common mesh dish was a Quad Star (quad panel) Not a deep dish.
Provides better separation between satellites. Less outside interference. But it's harder to tune an LNBF to.Thanks, Mine is a 4 panel. Any particular advantage to the "very deep dish"?
one odd looking Chaparral hybrid C and KU orthomode feedhorn. (has 2 regular c-band lnbs ortho-style and 1 cylinder-type ku lnb that's laying down, but sort of fits down through the middle with a tube, and the ku lnb has a servo for polarity.) I know I've seen one of these in a Pendragon mod thread, so I'll have to look that up. Anybody know anything about these particular feeds?
I have seen pictures here: http://s893.photobucket.com/user/1-...3&page=1&_suid=138125274146906068832683132147
So a Bullseye 1 it is!
I don't see the "inclined orbit" part, and have no advice on Perfect 10's.
?But it does look like a nice dish, and Ajak 180's are very desirable!:up
The Pinnacle ;How do you identify whether a Winegard dish is a Pinnacle or not?I've got a Winegard 10 footer but don't know what it is other than that. It was installed around 1992 and replaced one that was originally installed in 1988. Storm brought a tree limb down on that one and my insurance paid for a new one, hence the 1992 model.
FYI on the Winegard polar mount types. If yours has the declination adjustment stuff on that top pivot mount you might want to check it very closely to see if it's loose like mine was. The upper dish pivot bushing mount/declination setting piece is crap. They put a punched hole in those pieces that is way too loose. I remade mine and reamed that upper ,750 dia mount hole and it's much more stable now. I also added some thick flat washers on either side of that declination adjustment bracket to help stabilize that mount. It's piss poor engineering IMHO. I like the arrangement they used on the Unimesh as it seems to be much better.
Score big time :upYep, that's the one. I wonder now if the servo can be pulled off (I don't want to mess with a servo, though maybe I can just use the c-band side, and forgot ku exists on this as the simplest solution), and that cylinder waveguide be changed to mount TWO ku lnbs for H and V, and make the whole thing true full orthomode for both c and ku?
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That's two complete Winegard Pinnacles loaded in that 4x8 trailer. They stayed real nice for the whole drive back. There is NO rib frame for these dishes, the panels are such thick metal, and they interlock and bolt together and are self-supporting
i was surprised when I read the ad. I will e-mail to see if pictures can be had of the back of the dish to confirm a new or old version CM.
The Pinnacle ;
How bout this'n;See, those types of pics just do NOT do that dish justice. IF that reflector was sitting on the ground like a bowl of cereal, and you were standing back looking at it side-on, you could put a husky dog in there and hardly even see him over the rim!
That dish is OVER 2.5 FEET deep!
also has a cool National ADL feedhorn .... it looks to be a RP1Yet ANOTHER dish with a HH drive!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-1-2-FOOT-...680?pt=US_Antennas_Dishes&hash=item3a85e63c90
7.5ft (Maybe "Perfect Ten" brand), local pickup in Lake Forest California, at $4.99 Ebay auction...
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i was surprised when I read the ad. I will e-mail to see if pictures can be had of the back of the dish to confirm a new or old version CM.
pictures sent to me by CL poster.
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