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Old 05-19-2003, 10:14 AM
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Moving a big dish

You may want to write or call Sadoun to see if they sell a polar or h-h mount for their large dishes. The mount included with the large dishes looked like they were the FIXED type. In other works , you'd set the dish for one particular satellite.

There are two ways I know of to move a big dish. A polar mount which uses a motorized actuator arm to essentially "push" and "pull" the dish across the satellite arc or an H-H mount which is similar to the H-H mounts that you see on this site. (Only much larger of course.)

As far as I know, you need to purchase a dish which is set up for the mount you want. It may be possible to retrofit a dish to any mount but I am sure that is more difficult. I am currently using an actuator arm and polar mount on my 7.5 ft. dish. But I have been told that an H-H is actually better and can scan the full 180 degrees from horizon to horizon. I guess that's why it's called an H-H mount. An actuator arm doesn't do the full 180 degrees.

Hope this helps.
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