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    7.5' Aluminum dish
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    I have a line on a spun aluminum dish of this size. Any ideas on how I should go about transporting it? Its probably 2 hours away from me but I want a solid dish like this for Ku band.
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    I am looking to get another dish around this size to put in a spot to get 131w-139w. I just checked the area and I think I can get a clear LOS to these. Should a 7.5' dish be sufficient for these birds or would 10 be better? Probably looking to get 116.8 as well.
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    7.5' will be sufficient for most tp Rob but the more difficult mpeg-4 channels might be a bit glitchy. Bigger is always better in our biz.
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    The area I plan on putting it is kind of marshy. I was planning on doing an above ground mount for it. I have my SAMI 7.5 on a pallet mount but I use that for 37.5w-83W.
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    Scoped it out today. Here are some pictures. I will need to make a new mount and button hook for it. It is a Regency roughly 7.5-8'
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    Nice find Rob.... I like the logo imprint too!
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    Ya if I get it I am going to stencil in the original logo.
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    Well that was a fun trip. I just got back from Greenfield MA picking up the dish. I rented a full size pickup from Uhaul and strapped it down. The dish only stood up on me once. So after that I resecured it and it made it all the way back to NH with no damage.
    Portable Comtech 13', Winegard 10', SAMI 7.5', 3 39" Ku dishes one motorized. Scanning 30w-131w
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    Congrats on getting the dish back safely!
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    I started designing dish parts for this today. I calculated the f/d ratio to be .28 which is on the far end making this a deep dish. My invacom adf-120 feedhorn is advertised as being adjustable from .32-.43. I found a spec sheet for it which is posted below. Hopefully there is a way to get more adjustment out of the adf so I can use it on this dish. I have a few different lnb's that I can try out on this. In the meantime I am going to try to temporarily mount an lnb on this to see what kind of performance I can expect.
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