Just bought a new larger 24x26" sat. dish up from our old 18x21" dish and it really pulls in a much stronger signal now. Bought an adjustable mounting bracket last year that allows fine tuning of elevation and azimuth but it is for another brand of dish and wouldn't fit but knew that when I got it. We've only been getting a signal strength in the mid 50 percent range at best and now it is well above 90 percent. The new dish is finickier for accurate aiming at the satellite and being able to fine tune the adjustment will help.
I cut part of the bracket on the dish off and welded on an adapter. First pic is the rear of the dish (not our actual dish). Cut the rear part of the bracket off and made up the adapter piece from 14 ga. steel and welded it onto the remains of the old bracket. Ground down the welds and painted it all up with some satin drab olive green Krylon paint to blend in with the greenery in campgrounds. Will probably get a folding bracket from tv4rv.com so I can load it into the truck easier now that it's larger and heavier overall. Oh, and I also made a taller mast for the tripod about a foot taller - may help in some CGs when there's an RV or vehicle a little too close to us like the last time we were out.
Can't wait to try it out at the CG this weekend.
I cut part of the bracket on the dish off and welded on an adapter. First pic is the rear of the dish (not our actual dish). Cut the rear part of the bracket off and made up the adapter piece from 14 ga. steel and welded it onto the remains of the old bracket. Ground down the welds and painted it all up with some satin drab olive green Krylon paint to blend in with the greenery in campgrounds. Will probably get a folding bracket from tv4rv.com so I can load it into the truck easier now that it's larger and heavier overall. Oh, and I also made a taller mast for the tripod about a foot taller - may help in some CGs when there's an RV or vehicle a little too close to us like the last time we were out.
Can't wait to try it out at the CG this weekend.
