6 FEET OFFSET DISH (my dish)eurobird9

[vijaympeg4]

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[Costactc]

Nice looking dish, probably have no issues scanning all in with a 6' offset-too bad it isn't motorised.

[Terryl]

Very nice dish, looks to be a good mini-BUD project...

I also like the use of the white shoes to hold down the bricks, must be real windy there.......LOL.........Sorry...............My fault.

[cozumel111]

i have a dish here just like that. and an old mount and motor from my old bud that got blown away from a hurricane. how hard would it be to mount my 6 ' dish on the old mount ? any help would be great. thanks guys.

[Costactc]

Mounts are usually not interchangeable unless you can mod it some way to work with your motor and or dish, especially considering that your old bud was probably 10'.

[littleshotter]

Hi how are you? i just acquired one of those minus all the hardware, could you tell me where I can get them to buy or the specs to build them? I will greatly appreciate your assistance.
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http://i39.tinypic.com/skugio.jpg

[Gold]

Probably a little hard to build bud, but you can buy a new one at

http://www.satcomresources.com/products/Ku-Band-Tx-Rx

[jvvh5897]

Had to rejoin the site to reply to this.

It depends on what you mean when you say "no hardware". If it is just the supports for the KNB that you lack, then it is easy enough to figure out the offset angle and focal length by measuring the max vertical and horizontal dimensions of the dish--the equations are pretty easy compute.

If you are missing the mounting hardware for the back of the dish to a support pole, that is a far harder problem and one that is not likely to be something that you can cobble up if you keep the dish in its standard orientation--you have to have something that swings on the support pole and handles the weight of the dish and any wind loading. But if you rotate the dish around so that the usual top of the dish is at the bottom, the orientation of the dish when pointed at obital plane is nearly horizontal. You could use something like a hand-dolly on the south side of the dish and something like a home jack on the north side or maybe a car's jack w/ pole to adjust the elevation. By having the dish low like that, problems with rain and snow and hail are greater, but wind loading is reduced--you would still have to cobble weights to hold the thing down and put it in an area that wind can't hit it directly, but it would be an easier thing to cobble up than in the usual orientation.