I'm only 1~ month out of hernia surgery, and it was a bad one. Even if there was a company around here that went out of business and had a dish of this sort up on their roof, I'm not up to removing it right now from a roof, even if they gave it to me for free.
I have to admit I didn't think of looking through pics of Google street-view to find dishes this time, but Google hasn't as of yet mapped very much around here. Also as I said, it's quite rare for a company to go out of business in this area, and the building to not be taken over immediately. It's quite the booming area. I also used to keep VERY well apprised of any "spare" Primestar dishes laying around unused around here, and got most of them many years ago. Those were all re-purposed already, and/or sold and traded off. Most were elliptical, and I still have a few of those stashed. A very few were 1 meter dishes, and I still have 2 of those. I only EVER found a single 1.2 meter Primestar dish, but the owner wouldn't give it up. I went back 3 times a year for 4 years, and he said he wasn't ready to get rid of it yet (it was on an EMPTY lot, and not in use all that time!) Finally the last time of the last year I went back, the dish was GONE... arsehole got rid of it, and never called me..
Back then I also never thought of seeing if there were any businesses that wanted to get rid of a KU uplink dish, it just never crossed my mind then. I'll keep looking, but I was also thinking last night that if I was able to raise the 1 meter dish I'm using up by even 1 or 2 feet, it might make all the difference in signal. I really think my porch roof is close enough that it's barely or only partially clearing it and gathering all the signal it could.
