From: Greg. (greger_at_rfelektronik.se)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 02:05:56 PDT
>Your dish appears to be a Winegard Quad-10 which
>was a very good satellite-TV dish used for C-band
>in the USA in the late 1980's early 1990's.
It's a Winegard CK-1088 C & Ku band dish.
>Your elevation
>threaded bolt appears a little lightweight for
>hold this dish in higher wind, though.
That is true, it was just what I had home at the time, these days it's a bit heftier...
http://rfelektronik.se/temp/seti/Dsc06486.jpg
>Originally, that was where the actuator
>motor-arm was installed. You could use one there
>for tracking elevation. If you did not care that
>the dish travels in a full circle for azimuth, a
>second arm would give you about 120-degrees movement.
I can only hope that I in the future get my hands on some tracking equipment....
>I note that your neighbors all have small dishes
>on their houses, so I gather SETI is popular there (joke ;-)).
I was told 'size doesn't matter' :-)
>DEMI offers microwave
>LO's that could be used in place of your signal generator
Thanks, I'll look into that.
Good luck with your upgrades as well!
//Greg
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