So quick background. My dad was a one man band c-band dealer/installer in the mid to late 1980s in the upstate SC area. I spent many evenings doing homework sitting in a lawn chair in someone's yard while my dad dug a hole for a big pipe, or helping him and my mom put together a dish. On weekends we'd haul a trailer with a dish on it, set it up at a flea market with a TV, and hand out flyers to people trying to sell new systems. The earlier systems were Raydex 10ft dishes with ArcFinder Motor Drive controllers, and Drake Receivers. Later on they got more complicated with some Amplica(?) stuff, but I still remember going on service calls for the ArcFinders. Lightning would get in them and blow the tops of the chips off. My dad started installing them with trailer hitch harnesses in the wiring them so the customer could unplug them during storms if they were home.
Anyhow, I'm in the process of cleaning out my parent's old house and ran across a case of UST300 controllers. Looks like 5 new in the box, and 1 used one. I also found a new motor drive arm that he apparently purchased in 1999 but never installed. I'm guessing he was thinking about getting his old Raydex Dish back up and running, but never got around to it. Is any of this stuff relevant to the C Band world today?
Anyhow, I'm in the process of cleaning out my parent's old house and ran across a case of UST300 controllers. Looks like 5 new in the box, and 1 used one. I also found a new motor drive arm that he apparently purchased in 1999 but never installed. I'm guessing he was thinking about getting his old Raydex Dish back up and running, but never got around to it. Is any of this stuff relevant to the C Band world today?
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