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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mosllam" data-source="post: 866162" data-attributes="member: 385682">what about the gibertini 150 cm with a motorized poler mountwhat size of a prime focus dish does it equal ? may be 180 cm prime focus ? i mean ofcorse europian or amercan dishes not the cheeper ones from asia or elsesorry for the quistion but we are not familer with the offest dish - most of us uses a big local prime focus from 165cm to 220cm but full of deficts - i beleve the 220cm is equal to C M 120cm or gib 125cm or even worthi can order the gib 150cm form some dealer in u.a.e for about 450 $ incl sipp costthe other option is much more expensivea C M 180 cm on sail in egypt for more than 800 $ but with fixd po mount - i can ask for spicial order a motorizid polre for extra more than 200 $ - it will be more than a 1000 $we have some very old amercan dishes for sale - a used cheep ones less than 100$ like paraclps 230 cm and DH 240 cm but its more than 20 years old and they are very heavy and big size but with littel resultin egypt we need these bigger size to be abel to reiceve sattelites which we are out of its coverage such as astra 1 and astra 2 and many others15 month ago i bought a steel inverto 90 cm form the same dealer in dubai - and an inverto black ultra ( i think its a second rate qual cuse its mush cheeper than the eu sites prices )and i convert an old poler mount  belong to an old local  prime focus 160cm dish and fix the inverto 90cm on it - but the inverto is very light   i donot know if that polar mount can hold the heavy CM 180 cmoffcorse that poler is not very accuret but i can deal with it and with inverto 90cm i reiceved from 30W to 95E but just the transponder with a high coverge beam 40 db and higher is stabel all day long - ps rain is very rare in cairo even in winter just few days in the whole yearbut i was able to get some weaker sat on that small size for some houres  in the day - 2 frequancy on astra 2a (s-b) and 4 on astra 1kr</blockquote>

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