Here's some pics of my latest project, a bigger dish fixed on AMC6 c-band for NASA.
Had a 7.5 Winegard that I used the mount from, to make my motorized primestar setup, no really easy way to use the dish without a mount. So it sat in pieces behind the shed for nearly a year. I rounded up a spare polar mount from a friends defunct Sami 10' last fall and it was laying on the ground too, unused so I said Why shouldn't it work?
Flat piece of 1/8" steel I had left, just drilled holes to hold it onto the flat front parts of the polar mount, after drilling out the bolt pattern on the dish's center piece (bolts go all the way thru it, helps hold it together along with the bolts in the ribs of the dish). It was amazingly easy, the old polar mount had 4 tabs sticking up from it, but with the curvature of the winegard, they didn't stick up far enough to require me taking them off. It wasn't really meant to track, but apparently it does track the arc some, I know I started on AMC3 with it, just guessing, and motored east until I had signal strength. Scanned, and had NASA again, much better than my little 5' Wilson that I had been using. Signal quality went from about 12% to 38-40% ! Was quite pleased, and the lizards who live under it were too, they now have bigger shade when they need it, and more dish to crawl on when they need heat, lol.
One of the little gray buggers in the middle of the last shot, hard to see though.
Had a 7.5 Winegard that I used the mount from, to make my motorized primestar setup, no really easy way to use the dish without a mount. So it sat in pieces behind the shed for nearly a year. I rounded up a spare polar mount from a friends defunct Sami 10' last fall and it was laying on the ground too, unused so I said Why shouldn't it work?
Flat piece of 1/8" steel I had left, just drilled holes to hold it onto the flat front parts of the polar mount, after drilling out the bolt pattern on the dish's center piece (bolts go all the way thru it, helps hold it together along with the bolts in the ribs of the dish). It was amazingly easy, the old polar mount had 4 tabs sticking up from it, but with the curvature of the winegard, they didn't stick up far enough to require me taking them off. It wasn't really meant to track, but apparently it does track the arc some, I know I started on AMC3 with it, just guessing, and motored east until I had signal strength. Scanned, and had NASA again, much better than my little 5' Wilson that I had been using. Signal quality went from about 12% to 38-40% ! Was quite pleased, and the lizards who live under it were too, they now have bigger shade when they need it, and more dish to crawl on when they need heat, lol.
One of the little gray buggers in the middle of the last shot, hard to see though.
