1.6m motorised satellite dish with ground stand, polar mount and actuator, starting bid at 99p.
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1.6 metre prime focus Fibreglass Satellite dish with LNB & actuator, on steel stand, with Elipse receiver/controller & remote control. complete with instruction sheets . Condition is Used. Not been used for 15 years. The receiver case has gone rusty, but it powers up O/K. The dish mount is a...www.ebay.co.uk
That's what confused me because the rear mount certainly seems to make it a Gibby. I suspect that @Channel Hopper could tell us more as he knows a lot about them - from what he said recently I think it might be either one of their cheaper range of dishes which do have single arms, or else it's a "mongrel" where someone has put together one of the higher range dishes with the arm from the cheaper range???
, under the reflector are two expansion plates that strap the single feedarm to where the standard 'V' version should be.
- so, how does that "work", & why?
Probably wrong, but I always considered my single arm Gibby 1.2 was the 'genuine' dish, but I suppose one or the other was manufactured by a different company during the dish's existence.@Channel Hopper
Thought your "expert eye" would spot the "real issue"
Also, given that a single arm can't (obviously!) give the same rigidity as the V arm config,:
1 - was that actually an official Gibby "option", and, if so, why did they offer that version?
2 - would additional arm bracing (like my other dishes - albeit that those braces are very crude - that you have seen) result in pretty much the same overall rigidity as the V arm config?
You mean to see the other side of the bracket where the arm is fixed?
FWIW, if I look again at the single arm adapter in the 1st shot from the listing, that adapter seems to have 6 folds in it, so I doubt that it was "homemade" (unless, of course, it was made by someone like RimaNTSS, John or mappeuro!).