flickerrr zone 2 mesh dish

[Bbigfoot]

Hi flick,

I adapted a zone 2 mesh dish with
two exhaust U bolts that enabled me
to fix a £65 motor, and using a S@y standard LNB.

28e, 100% sig Quality BBC 1 HD.
23.5e 100% Sig Quality.
19e, 80% Sig.
16e Tring on the edge.
13e, 78 Sig.
9e 65% Sig.
7e, 60% sig.
4.8e Siurus 90% Sig Quality.
0.8 Thor 65% Sig, 1w Intelsat 10-02 (Digtv) 55% Sig Quality.
5w 90% Sig Quality.
7w, ZERO.
30w, Hispasat 80% Signal Quality.

BF.

[echelon]

interesting use of a zone 2, I use those U bolts around my scaffold pole and below the motor to keep it in its place when adjusting it.I may have to have a look at a spare zone 2 and see how using U bolts would work ;)
biggest problem I can see is elevation adjustment of the dish itself

my spiderbox 9000 is using a darkmotor superior, ultra black inverto lnb on a triax td110 dish (1.1 metres) , which I would say is an excellent combination

alternative dishes are the triax td88 88cm dish, albeit smaller, or the gilbertini or similar quality dishes

alternative motors are the tm2600 or a stab or anything similar (but I know somebody with a spider on the tm motor and its not smooth using usals, only when using diseqc which was the same on my old motek tm motor)

[Bbigfoot]

Hi echelon,

You need to open out the four bolt
holes on the zone 2 backplate to a
accommerdate the larger U bots.
The U bots rap round the motor's arm,
then through your enlarged backplate holes.
Need a ring spanner to tighten nuts on the inside
of the dishes backplate.
Because of the lightwaite construction no need for
a big wall plate.
I just connected the Technomate TM 2600 Disque motor
to the 1" 1/4 S@y wall plate with the motors two U bolts.
No Wind shear at all, no loss of signal even in gail force wind's.
No sound when motor moves, unless you get up close.

BF.

[echelon]

thanks

a good explanation that makes sense to me once I read it through properly

I still dont see how you adjust the actual dish elevation once the motor is set to your latitude though

[Bbigfoot]

Hi echelon,

I set the motor and dish to 0.8w (Thor), then
using the elevation scale on the dish bracket, set
the dish so that it's on a Horizontal plane that picks up
the highest Signal.
Set to USALS (Long and LAT) in my case (55n. 1.4w) and
of you go, Hispasat 30w to in my case 28e. Roof blocks 39e.

BF.