"Sal M. Onella" wrote in message
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"Euro-Motors" wrote in message
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Hello i am looking for a dish steerable in both ways vertical and
horizontal
second hand
hard to find guess
anybody?
regards
willy

A few of these are/were made for customers who intended to simply aim
their
big dishes and leave them. The type of mount you described is called an
AZ/EL mount, short for azimuth / elevation, which are separately settable,
usually by means of hand cranks but sometimes motors. They may or may not
have built-in calibration scales. Your best source would be the phone
company, cable company or TV station. As more and more entities get fiber
optic connections, their dishes are becoming available for sale (or even
giveaway). Many small AZ/EL mounts are sold, but most are for small
dishes
only (0.8 -1.5 meter) and these would be too flimsy for your dish. A
subset
of the AZ/EL dish is the "ring mount" or "patio mount." These are
essentially for portable use. I cannot see one of these for a dish over
about 2 meters.

The other type mount is called a polar mount, because it pivots on an axis
that's parallel to an imaginary line connecting the poles; it couples
azimuth and elevation changes together as it tracks a smooth arc. Most
people bought them because they intended to change satellites often --
homes, bars, restaurants.

I only have the polar mount in use here, but I offer up these names that I
might simplify your search.

It is not unreasonable to build your own AZ/EL mount out of wood. I did
it
for a 1.5 meter dish with only a few 3/4-inch pine planks. (Bigger
dish --
bigger lumber.)

Good Luck.



I am familar with someone using a TVRO antenna is this manner, azimuth
rotation was enabled by slidng another piece of tubing over the mast. More
information I dont have.

Jimmie