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Black to match all my other gear.

My father picked up a Manhatten 1000 from Skyvision around '02 to go with the $50 12' used C-Band setup I put in for him around '98. I struggled for a long time trying to get OLN for him for some reason, as that was the only reason he bought it. Hundreds of other channels came in fine. While...

I was only 7 years old then, but remember that storm like it was yesterday!

I have zero experience with them, other than that they were used all over my area in Upstate NY, and I know where three are within a few miles of me. They all still appear in perfect condition after almost 30 years, while I've heard from everyone on here that they are junk. I'm not saying grab...

Hmm, about 5 minutes from me...

I've noticed several of those dishes over the years, and always wondered how they were aimed at different birds without it being a complete nightmare. If it were me, I would do the trig or model the mount in Pro/Engineer to determine the required link lengths. However, I'm a mech-e with a...

Other video format reception and blind scan features would be the primary driver influencing my purchase, however I have these thoughts. No display adds the perception of cheap, that as much I hate to admit, I would be influenced by. Maybe it was because my first Uniden UST-9000 showed...

Wow, H-H mount, quad feed support and in black. They don't get much better than that. I've never seen the quad feed support before.

As far as I'm cocnerned, that is "the" dish to have in terms of C-Band performance, asthetics and especially robustness. There were and still are a lot of them in my area. There's a mint black one a friends father has that is mine for the taking a few miles of backroads from me. On that...

Note that the Baird UR10, at $1,458, would be just undersized for an 8' dish and they would likely recommend the UR10D at $2,030. The UR10D weighs ~840 lbs, and I would want to run some calculations to verify that the roof could support that increase in deadload. This probably gives you a...

I'm a structural engineer, and by inspection can tell you that your mount is far from satisfactory. Furthermore, the chart in the link above, which seems to provide moment as a function of dish size and wind speed, makes no sense without supplementary information. I quickly searched and did...

That's a re-badged Uniden UST-9000 receiver. I had the Uniden version as my first c-band receiver and it was flat out awesome. If I were to put in a BUD at my new house, I'd want one of those coupled to it. What was great was that the front panel LED display gave you all the information at a...

Agreed, sounds like a Dark Star, which would make it 12' in diameter likely. I would guess ~1/4 of the dishes in my area were that model, the local dealer sold a lot of them, probably because they were so cheap for the same size compared to a Paraclipse. I actually just saw one a mile or so...

The current through the position feedback and corotor wires is trivial, thus a 140 foot cable run should not present any issues. Based on the size of your dish, the standard gauge wire found in satellite ribbon cable could be on the small size. A quick comparison of voltages in the house and...

This has been going on forever. I remember the C-Band channel in the early 90s that sold the "ice" LNBs. The difference is, the prices we are discussing here are an order of magnitude less than they were back then!

Yep, I was talking about the auction. Still on the cautious side about citing anything found in this forum based on the rules. I'm curious about how you are extracting those data on the feeds? I probably haven't found the good stuff yet, but out of all the "published" channels on Ku DVB, the...

I was actually just able to do some back to back comparisons with some SD feeds on 99W with their 720P counterparts on DirecTV. For the most part, it was really hard to tell the difference between the two. These are hands down the best feeds I have found yet though (quality and content)...

Thanks! The motor is a DG280. Poor choice of words on my part in regards to alignment. What I really meant is, the dish can move around a significant amount with the signal appearing to stay near maximum. As expected, there is far less "focus" than there is with a BUD. When I first felt the...

Hello all, I've been lurking around here for a while now. I had a 7.5' Perfect 10 dish that was used for C Band from the early 90's to about 2005. We had a huge hail storm come through, dish got destroyed, and I ended up going with DirecTV as the future of 4DTV didn't look good even back then...

During the summer of 2005, we had a hail storm at my place that beat up my 7.5' Perfect 10 dish. I asked the insurance guy, and he said give me an estimate for replacement. I just printed out the price for an 8' orbitron from Skyvision, and they paid me $800 for it. Probably could have got more...

Thanks for all the comments! I figured you folks would say keep the BUD. I forgot to mention, the 7.5' perfect 10 got in a big fight with a hail storm, and got all dinged up. Dr. Gene Scott and some other feeds I found were still coming in loud and clear the other day though. A couple hours...

Hello, I'm new here, but not new to satellite. I have a 7.5' Perfect 10 C-band dish that I bought/installed when I was 14 years old back in '94. 4-5 years back the actuator died, I had 0 time on my hands, and I went to DirecTV. I recently had a friends father ask if I wanted his 12'...