Posted by chainsman on 01/07/06 23:44

I'm one of the many people who bought a Winegard 76cm dish and receiver combo
package. I also added a GeoSatPro GS-120 H-H motor but I found that the
declination angle for my area cannot be achieved with this dish. There is a
bolt sticking out of the place where the feed bracket attaches to the rear mount
and it prevents going any lower than 30-degrees. Even when the bolt is removed
it still cannot achieve the proper declination angle. I had a hard time finding
the owners' manual (it didn't come with the motor) and eventually discovered
that the motor calls for an impossible 23.5 degrees. I removed the motor and
successfully tuned the channels I wanted on Galaxy 3C and its neighbors so I'm
satisfied at the moment, but I'd really like to tune as much of the arc as
possible for my area with a motor some day.

How may I adapt this H-H motor for this dish? I noticed the STAB motors claim
incompatibilities with the Winegard 76cm dish, too, and I can't find any
alternative motors, either.

I'm planning on installing a second, larger dish on my property with a matched
H-H motor since I need to upgrade the non-universal LNBF that came with my
starter system. I'm also going to try an offset LNBF so I might tune both the
very lonely Galacy 3C and the very crowded Intelsat 5.

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