Adventures in Dish Hunting 2009

**zaxxon** · 01-07-2009 12:33 PM

No Doubt, Nice dish find. I have been using one just like it for thirteen years.

**No Doubt** · 01-07-2009 01:01 PM

Cool Zanxxon, I am just starting with my site survey. What are you using for a LNB? Any pics?
No Doubt

Originally Posted by zaxxon

No Doubt, Nice dish find. I have been using one just like it for thirteen years.

**lonewolf85** · 01-07-2009 04:27 PM

I have just go off the phone with the owner. I have talked her down to $100.00 apiece on the dishs she did say that if she finds the receiver boxs she wants $50 for them. She is going send me some pics of the other dish tomorrow.

**linuxman** · 01-07-2009 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by lonewolf85

I have just go off the phone with the owner. I have talked her down to $100.00 apiece on the dishs she did say that if she finds the receiver boxs she wants $50 for them. She is going send me some pics of the other dish tomorrow.

Tell her she can keep the original receivers. They are absolutely worthless except with the OEM LNB that comes on the dish and the original potentiometer that moves it.

**Techfizzle** · 01-07-2009 07:06 PM

potentiometer that moves it

you mean servo. the old 70 mhz systems are oldhat

**linuxman** · 01-07-2009 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Techfizzle

you mean servo. the old 70 mhz systems are oldhat

No I mean potentiometer.

The Birdview dishes came from the factory with a Potentiometer on the worm gear for tracking where the dish was on the arc. Their original receivers did track the "pulses" with the Pot.

The Birdview OEM LNB/A or whatever it was was voltage controlled and had no need of a servo.

**Techfizzle** · 01-07-2009 07:47 PM

did they make a voltage controlled servo for a chappral feed? something that I could hook a rg-6 to and it would controll it?

**lonewolf85** · 01-07-2009 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by linuxman

Tell her she can keep the original receivers. They are absolutely worthless except with the OEM LNB that comes on the dish and the original potentiometer that moves it.

If she does find the receivers I will want them to use to move and conntrol my offset birdview dish.

**1captain** · 01-07-2009 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by Techfizzle

did they make a voltage controlled servo for a chappral feed? something that I could hook a rg-6 to and it would controll it?

Not that I know of but chaperral made a dual band ortho feed to fit that birdview scalar, an also a dual c-band ortho feed, the chaperral feeds where turn down smaller in size that would slip right into the orginal birdview scalar, an stop where machining ended, they where a perfect fit.

Now Cal Amp made a 1-wire controled lnb, which was their 1st atemp for a lnb-f, an alot of times that was used on birdview dish when they did a up grade receiver, but the Cal Amp lnb would not fit into the scalar ring, so that needed to be changed.