Posted by Web Williams on 01/08/06 15:03

I'm not exactly familiar with your dish, but many
76Cm dish mounts have two sets of pivot-bolt holes.
If yours does, have you tried using the second set
of holes? This allows for an alternate pivot point,
and may get you to the angle you need. On the other
hand, you could drill some new pivot bolt holes, but
you'd have to sacrifice the accuracy of the angle
scale on the side of the dish mount, and it might
require some tinkering with the adjustments to get
everything to line up correctly.

I use a 95Cm dish with the SG-2100 mount. If it
weren't for tree obstructions in my neighbor's
yard, I'd be one happy camper! Yes, I know a
drill bit and some "root rot" would fix that, but
that's not exactly legal last time I checked....

-Web (KR4WM, hello to KM4RL)

In article <dppjp1030r7@drn.newsguy.com>, chainsman@netscape.net says...
> 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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