Thread: So I scored a HughesNet Dish today

I was installing Dish Network today and at the house that I was doing had a HughesNet dish.... The Homeowner asked if I could remove and haul it away. Pole and all!....So I did......

Question: If you were the proud owner of a nice big HughesNet dish, What would you do with it? And are their any features & benefits of using this dish for FTA? Or should I just chuck it?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

I was installing Dish Network today and at the house that I was doing had a HughesNet dish.... The Homeowner asked if I could remove and haul it away. Pole and all!....So I did......

Question: If you were the proud owner of a nice big HughesNet dish, What would you do with it? And are their any features & benefits of using this dish for FTA? Or should I just chuck it?

Thanks!

How big is a hughes net dish?

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

I was installing Dish Network today and at the house that I was doing had a HughesNet dish.... The Homeowner asked if I could remove and haul it away. Pole and all!....So I did......

Question: If you were the proud owner of a nice big HughesNet dish, What would you do with it? And are their any features & benefits of using this dish for FTA? Or should I just chuck it?

Thanks!

Does it look like the attached image? I got that one a month or so ago. It's ~33" x 38", I think. I was planning on fixing it on 103, maybe. Still sitting in the exact spot as the picture as we speak, though.

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

I was installing Dish Network today and at the house that I was doing had a HughesNet dish.... The Homeowner asked if I could remove and haul it away. Pole and all!....So I did......

Question: If you were the proud owner of a nice big HughesNet dish, What would you do with it? And are their any features & benefits of using this dish for FTA? Or should I just chuck it?

Thanks!

DirectDishNet,

Did they by chance gift you the Modem, too?

If you had all the equipment... Dish, TRIA and the modem, it might be a good item to resell on Ebay, if it is in good physical and operational condition. I have Wild Blue internet via satellite and the equipment does not come cheap. I would hate to see anyone hack it up for FTA when there is better equipment available for that specific purpose.

If the Hughes dish and any components have any merit towards functionality, by all means - pawn it on Ebay and take the proceeds to apply for whatever you wish. If it is missing the modem and you don't know about the functionality of the TRIA, then sell the TRIA "as is" and use the dish for FTA.

JMO

RADAR

Hughesnet dishes I thought were 39x23 or maybe that was the old DirecPC setups

Good lord dont chuck it. I'd drive to Davenport to get it if you are gonna chuck it

I'd use it for a fixed dish system...maybe 103 for the news feeds (and the goofy skew) or maybe 74W for the feeds

Re Hughes Net.

The older version (DirecPC) is the same as in my avatar picture, then later they had the DirecDuo which looked kind of odd with a very strange LNB setup. Both had Oval dishes.

By the way, this set up is at my other location. The one closest to the right is the DirecDuo set at 103W for The Pentagon Channel. The small 18" dish on the pole is for ION and NASA on 119W. The DirectPC Dish (same as my avatar picture) is set for 97W.

Please show us a photo of whatever you are calling a HughesNet dish.
I've seen so many strange things with that name, I will never assume again, that I know what a guy is talking about.
Here's what MexSunny calls his Hughes.

And as for Kentucky Bill, ...man... there's another strange one!
The hardware, not the member! -

Sorry guy's, Just got back home..... Here is the hughesnet dish that I aquired......

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

Sorry guy's, Just got back home..... Here is the hughesnet dish that I aquired......

DDN,

That dish looks to be in awesome condition! That is not a dish that should be butchered for any purpose. Sell it on Ebay or use it for what it was designed for. There is some money involved in that rig, I guarantee it, don't let it go to waste, please!

RADAR