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Old 06-08-2004, 05:30 AM
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Mini review on Satcontrol SD3DM12 h-h mount

I got this motor 2 weeks ago and had a chance to put it up today.

Hardware: Fortec Lifetime, Primestar oval dish 75cm x 1m dish, Pansat Diseqc 4 ways, Fortec universal lnbf, DirectTV lnbf.

Putting everything together, pole is perfectly vertical, all the cables tested to make sure they are working. All settings (motor/dish elevation...) were double checked to ensure they are all correct.
It did not take me much time to locate G10R, which is my true south sat.
Then using USALS (aka Diseqc 1.3) to move the dish to furthest East (AMC5 @ 79W) and furthest West (Echostar4 @ 157W). Got lock on these 3 right away. Did some more fine tune to maximize the quality for these 3 sats. Attaching the DirectTV lnbf on the right side of the linear. Switching between these 2 lnbfs controlled by Diseqc command.
SAtcontrol holds Primstar dish very steady. It's windy today in San Francisco, no signal loss so far. In my opinion, this mount can be used with a larger dish size such as 1m or 1.2m becuase the Primestar oval dish is much heavier than any consumer 90cm dishes. The only thing I wish the manufacture did when designed this mount is to make the rotation angle wider.
So far, I am happy with the performance. The dish tracks the arc well from Echo4 to AMC5, get lock on both linear and circular sats.
I am in the market for shoping a 1.2m dish to use with this mount. Prefer local seller but so far have not found any seller in my location. The shiping cost for 1.2m is way out of my budget. If I have a chance to get a 1.2m locally , I will post another review reporting how this motor handles this kind of size.
Michael
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