Thread: GeosatPro SL2 Dual Output LNBF Give-Away

Hi All,

While I was digging out all of the satellite equipment that I am selling this Spring, I found a box with some brand new, never used, and still in the box GeosatPro SL2 Dual Output LNBFs that I acquired from SatelliteAV when I first started my "Best Way to Receive Whole Ku Arc With Fixed Dishes? project a couple of years ago.

I contacted Brian of SatelliteAV and he encouraged me to just have a Give-Away, so that's what I am doing.

I have 8 of these along with their holders designed to fit a GeosatPro 90CM dish that I will throw into winnings for one lucky winner.

Perhaps you would like to start your own mini-dish farm and start out with multiple LNBFs on one dish. Well these are the LNBFs of choice. They are the smallest LNBF currently manufactured, and can be spaced every 4 degrees on a GeosatPro 90CM dish, and will work fine on a Primestar 84e spaced at 4 degrees spacing.

Here are some pictures of the LNBFs in action:



Here's the deal!!

Tell us your favorite Dish Hunting Story in as much detail as you can remember. It has to be true, and has to have been done by you personally. It has to have resulted in your acquiring the dish and bringing it home. Pictures of what you found while still in the wild, and how they are being used now must also be included. That's for Anole.

EDIT:Contest closes on Saturday May 30, 2011 at 12:00 Noon CDT. Hopefully will have the winner picked by sometime that evening.

Sorry guys, but entries from only those living in the CONUS will be accepted, and you must have your location, at least the nearest big City to you and the State where you live in displayed in your profile in the upper right hand corner of the posts.


The winner will be chosen by a "dis-interested" party hopefully by the evening of May 30, 2011, and be shipped free to the winner in the CONUS only.

If I have forgotten anything, it will be corrected by those posting I'm sure.

I always loved "Dish Hunting". It became my favorite "sport" over the last 5 years, and I know there are others out there who love the sport as well.

So let's hear your story!!

Ok, I guess I'm game. Planning on getting a Primestar soon, could use Ku lnb's for it since the one with it probably won't be worth a crap.

went yardsaling with my wife (my mistake)... came to a house with a bunch of junk (over priced)... lo & behold in the yard a primestar elliptical (the 84E)... out of curiosity i asked what she wanted for it... 100 bucks, i replied that it was a good price & left it at that... another guy at the sale overheard me talking about it & told me if i would take the "junk" out of his yard i could have his... so the day was not a total loss after all (i got the good lnb with combined H & V)

Ok. This is a two part story. I install FTA dishes for people to watch the Adventist stations. Several years ago before I even heard about Satellite guys I went to a persons Nail Salon to install a FTA dish because they wanted to show religious programing for people to watch while getting their nails done. It turns out that the shop they were in had at one time been a Radio Shack. Well, I went up on the roof and saw a Primestar dish on a non-penetrating mount. I had never seen or even heard of a Primestar dish. What great luck I thought. Here's a mount and coax allready running into the store. So I took the pesky "useless" Primestar dish off the mount and threw it off the roof. Then I proceded to place my FTA dish on the same mount that the Primestar come off of.

Several month later I found Satellite Guys and started reading about how great Primestar dishes were and how they could be used to pick up FTA. I was sick. I kept replaying over and over in my mind the Primestar dish sailing off the roof and shattering into pieces as it hit the concrete parking lot.

Now I was on a quest to find another Primestar Dish. I looked everywhere for a dish. I came home from work different ways just so I could look in peoples yards for a dish. I started thinking maybe I would have a better chance to find a dish if I looked in areas that wasn't wired for cable, so I started looking up at telephone poles to see if a neighborhood had cable TV wires or not. Finally about a year later I went down a street one block off my normal route home and there it was! A Primestar dish! Less than 1 mile from my home.

I went up to the house, knocked on the door and this is what I said. " Hi. My name is Adam and I noticed that old Primestar satellite dish in your yard. Primestar has been out of business for many years. But I like to experiment with receiving satellite signals and your Primestar dish could work great for that. Would you be willing to give me your dish? Or if you don't want to give it away I would be willing to pay you something for it." The lady said I'm glad you came by. I have been wondering how to get rid of that ugly thing for years! I offered to cut off the pole at ground level for her but she said don't worry about that just take the dish. So I unbolted it from the pole, threw it in my truck and now it's in my side yard. Over the years it has been aimed at several satellites. This is an old photo but right now it's aimed a 97W. Out of all the dishes I have ever had or installed I think my Primestar is the best.

I just realized the DirecTV Slimline-5 I have around is almost the same size as a Primestar. If I could get just one of those LNBF's I'd finally be able to get some Ku.

This is probably going to be rather long(ish) and some of it I have posted before. Going back and forth to work I had to drive a small mountain road, and daily I was looking at what appeared to be an unused LARGE dish. All I had at that time was a 30" motorized dish that I bought when I lived in an apartment and used it for DN.

Well after seeing this thing for over a year, it finally dawned on me what was wrong with that picture, there was no LNB on it, so one morning I stopped and asked what it was being used for, and I was told it was their internet connection but the contract had expired and they were ready to have another company replace everything. They had already sent the receiver and LNB back but the company said it wasn't worth the shipping costs to return the dish, they were about to scrap it that week, how about that, I drove to work with this HUGH 4 foot dish in the back of my pickup, that was my introduction to the Patriot 1.2m dish.

There was another dish I had been passing each week when I went to town, in a very small fenced in area off to the side of the road. I had left several notes attached to their fence. It was an exact clone or twin to the one that I received from the mine, and each week as I drove to go shopping I would see this dish. Then one day there was a pick up truck parked just outside the fence and I stopped to ask about the dish. It turned out that it was an Arizona Dept of Transportation "yard" and the person I was talking too told me where I could go ask about the dish.

The following week I finally managed time to go to the ADOT office and it took four people for me to find the correct person to ask about the dish. He had to put in a request to Phoenix to 'scrap out' this dish, and would get back to me in a week or two.

Three days later I got a phone call from him asking for directions to my house. He pulled up in a large truck with this disk tied to the back of the truck, tied that is with WIRE. He delivered the dish to the house.

That dish is still sitting in my back yard, I have gone through a bout of medical problems during the past several months and haven't had the chance to do much more than dig a hole for the pole and set the pole in the hole, I haven't even poured the concrete yet, but it IS in the works to mount this Patriot 1.2m dish as soon as possible after my surgery next week.

Between the time I received that first Patriot 1.2m dish and now, I have acquired two 10' mesh dishes, got them up and working, found several ku dishes that are working, and now have a mini grotto of dishes sprouting up at the side and back of the house. The MOST fun I have had in this hobby is trying to put LNBFs on dishes that have nothing to indicate where the LNBs were originally mounted, such was the case on the original Patriot. And the cost of the original mount from Patriot made that idea go away real fast. I have found that a multi-lnb mount works just fine.

The attached picture was taken during last winters mini frost in our area, I can't seem to find any of the multitude of pictures I took during it's growing (planting) phase, but it IS a good example of how I used a multi feed system to get at the (almost) correct location for mounting an LNB.

The larger dish is the original Patriot, the smaller dish is the original 30" I started with here at home after moving from California.

And I still don't have an LNBF for the newest Patriot.

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I purchased two Primestar dishes with three LNBs each from linuxman, but haven't picked these up yet. I also ran an ad on Craigslist looking for unwanted dishes. A man called me up saying that he had an old DTN dish that needed a home. It found one! Here it is laying on the floor of my garage...

Well, I can't seem to post a picture of it here.

I've posted a picture of this on my FTABlog here:


FTA Satellite TV Experiment

I was admiring the Prodelin dish at a closed bank for several years on my daily commute. I never dreamed it would be mine one day. Long before I acquired two others from commercial buildings. Then last summer I noticed renovations beginning on the property and eventually the dish came down. Luckily it was carefully removed and undamaged. It was mine for the asking. This 6' Prodelin is my favorite and is the only one permanently installed in the ground. Currently pointed at 99W C band.

Thanks for the contest Linuxman.

Here's link to my original post (it has pictures) of a 1m primestar I found and managed to get motorized. It's the one I use as my Avatar.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...motorized.html

Now for the story I had recently started getting into the hobby and was hopeful that I would one day acquire a much sought after primestar dish. I sent an email around at work asking if anyone had old satellite dishes they no longer wanted. Of course I got plenty of dish network and directtv offers. I decided to follow up with a few of them, after all Dish sometimes has stuff go unencrypted and I didn't have any circular lnbs yet.

I drove out to this house to pick up their old directv dishes and to my surprise and delight There was a 1m primestar sitting in their neighbor's yard! I asked the owner if they would introduce me to the neighbor and to make a long story short. They were more than happy to have someone remove the dish from their yard. I also ended up with a 4x4 channel master mulitswitch from the directv setup, so I have been able to use that with the lnb on the primestar setup.

Since then, I have been using the support arms off the dish with another 1m primestar I got for $5 from the previous owner who only had the reflector. This "new" reflector is in better shape than my first 1m primestar, but I use it with the same custom mount I made out of a dish 500.

I will post some new pictures of my dish farm sometime soon. I have moved since the orginal photos were taken.