Thread: Adventures in Dish Hunting 2009

I drug home a 10' Winegard for parts a couple of days ago. It looks like the guy hit it with his excavator! When we were loading it up on to my pickup I noticed a Primestar in the weeds and the owner said "Take it". It is the oval dish about 29.5" tall and about 40" wide and is in excellent shape. It is Channel Master and says part #3040865 on the back and it does not have support arms. The sad part about this story is a 7.5' Winegard that got scrapped! I talked to the guy last fall and he was still using the 7.5' and said I could have the 10' parts dish someday. I noticed the 7.5' was missing and that is when I stopped in. He said that they decided to stop using it and someone stopped in and took it for scrap! He has no idea why he let them scrap the good BUD and left the "junker"!


TODAY I was venturing in nearby Ohio and found 3 more Primestars within 12 miles of each other! These look like the oval one I picked up at the neighbors. I stopped in and did not have much luck. The one house had vehicles there but no one answered the door and the other 2 places are abandoned. I talked to neighbors of these abandoned places and they have no idea who owns the places which have been vacant for quite a few years. Now how should I go about getting these 2 abandoned dishes???...

if its been vacant... i dont think anyone is going to notice there missing

The one is in a run down town of maybe 20 houses! Maybe I should check to see if the whole town is a ghost town!

I will not remove anything until I get permission.

Originally Posted by Dishman Dan

The one is in a run down town of maybe 20 houses! Maybe I should check to see if the whole town is a ghost town!

I will not remove anything until I get permission.

An honest man. It doesn't matter if anyone would miss it or not, someone owns the property and anything on it, trash or treasure.

Returning home from Houston (via Waco) - Hwy 31 just West of Corsicana, TX I spotted a perforated Birdview on the north side. Looked like it was still in use from the hiway. Right next to a small, tan, metal shop building.
Anyone reading this know anything about this dish or live close by?
If I had time and was able I would have stopped to ask...

" Via Waco " That some detour...
I would check on it for you but I am in the Houston area and, I am not headed to Mississippi any time soon. LOL .......

Originally Posted by gremlin411

" Via Waco " That some detour...

Yep - relatives just outside Waco. We detoured to see them while we were "in the area"

I found the location on Google Maps street view... if this link works...
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Here's my new dish farm...
.... okay, maybe not mine, but one I'd like to mine!

It's just off the freeway, behind some apartments.
First, there is the long shot from the front, establishing the surroundings.
Next, a close-up from the front.
Wide shot from the back, showing the freeway out ahead of the dishes.
Close-up of the back side.

Some of the dishes have multiple LNBs.
Next time I'm in the area, I'll try for better pictures, but it is a very difficult place to approach, and my camera doesn't have telephoto.

A cable head-end? Steel dishes in panels, bolted together?
They're not motorized, in spite of how it may look.
Comments, suggestions, or clues?
They seem to be painted to blend in with the buildings.

All pictures have been cropped and re-compressed to use less forum storage and take you less download time, from what the camera originally saved.