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Old 06-30-2003, 03:27 PM
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I consider that to be the ultimate setup myself. Mainly because getting C band on a small dish is hit and miss at best. Mainly miss

As for setup, well kinda, but a lot more involved since the dish and mount together weigh around 80-100 lbs. Much like the small dish, it's best to run from one end to the other several times fine tuning all along the way. Once you've gotten the dish adjustments made then the setup in the receiver is about the same. The stab motors work on lat/long setings and the big mount works on pulse counts for positioning like the linear actuators for the big dishes do.

Only bad thing is only one company I know of still manufactures a 'consumer' H-H mount for the 10-12 footers. You can sometimes get lucky and find a used mount, but if not a new one will run at least $400, usually more. That's the big drawback to that type of system. But the reception you get is the real prize.
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