Installing the Fracarro 125cm Dish

For good reception of Viasat West of Birmingham/Oxford

or Nilesat/Arabsat North of Birmingham

The superb Fracarro 1.25 metre dish will give signals where smaller dishes fail , but installing can be a long job and this requires some heavy-duty attachments. 

The wall mount in this case is a 3″ X 12 ” steel reinforced elbow type.

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First Problem - would not fit in the car !
box
The aluminium Fracarro dish is well protected with polystyr
The Azel mount kit comes in a separate box
Start by assembling the 2 U bolts in the clamp
Next the three long bolts in the dish elevation swivel
bolt on the stop plate at the top of the clamp
Clamp completed
bolt the clamp inside the main assembly with the three elevation swivel bolts.
The elevation assembly should only be secured b the bottom nut at this time. Using the spacer, attach the elevation adjustment threaded bar
mount the azel unit onto the 55mm elbow mount
Tighten the clamp in a suitable angle to be able to reach the dish studs from both sides
Tighten the elevation adjuster to assist fitting the dish

Bear in mind the huge length of the arm, when assembling you’ll need to be able to reach the back – tricky without help!

Take extreme care handling the dish, aluminium reflectors don’t stand up to rough treatment.

Mount the Azel unit on the elbow wall mount
Front view Azel unit
Fit the dish with the 8 bolts and nuts with nylon shakeproof nuts. Fit the plastic rim protector strip at this point
build and slide in the arm assembly. Note the protection strip is fitted
fit the lnb in the clamp
do a rough skew adjustment
clamp has allen key fastener
LNB completed

That’s the build completed, now to align and hook up the receiver. This particular dish is receiving Viasat Lithuania.