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  1. Greg Mueller

    What was your favourite memory of a feed or channel on cband before channels got scrambled ?

    Boresight Satellite News. Raw News Feed on an Alaska Channel....nightly. All the "Premium" channels before they scrambled.
  2. Greg Mueller

    12ftr. Aquired!!

    Looks just like my first dish. I am envious. Good job
  3. Greg Mueller

    First dish you ever seen

    15' solid at the store I used to buy VHS tapes from before you could find them anywhere else.
  4. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    I'm in the process of moving to NM but the dish is in WA.
  5. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    I should probably add that I harvested this dish a number of years back and it has been in my garage since.
  6. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    Free! 1.2 meter Primestar dish in the area of Poulsbo, WA. This one is white, while the others I have are grey. The only thing wrong with it is the plastic horn holder is missing, but I think you can still buy them. The three holder pipes come from the dish but the plastic piece that holds them...
  7. Greg Mueller

    Pole goes in

    YES!
  8. Greg Mueller

    Pole goes in

    Brought my old satellite pole from WA to NM. I kind of bent it pulling it out of the ground so I buried the bent part (it was only a little bend) and the fin is on that end too. Had just enough mud left over from the radio tower pour to fill up the hole To be continued.....
  9. Greg Mueller

    Register your cband dish!

    Hey where's that twelve footer :)
  10. Greg Mueller

    Register your cband dish!

    I don't register anything I don't absolutely have to. The less the fed knows about me the better of I am.
  11. Greg Mueller

    Need SatelliteGuys Assistance for C-band Feedhorn Alignment Tool Project

    For a number of years, as a side business (hobby) I made a gadget called an Align-O-Tron. It was a device for technicians for aligning lamphouses on movie projectors. (back when they still used film in theaters.) I only sold a few hundred of them (one tech can do many theaters) but some of them...
  12. Greg Mueller

    139W AMC 8

    Is there a page somewhere with various satellite's footprints?
  13. Greg Mueller

    139W AMC 8

    what does "MUX" mean?
  14. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    For Sale 9 foot Aluminum Parabolic Dish & Hardware 104 inch spun aluminum dish, two positioners, 2 mounting pipes and LMB center focus mount. Good condition, no dents in active area, no corrosion. $100 Pick up only, Chippewa Falls, WI . For Sale - 9 foot Aluminum Parabolic Dish & Hardware
  15. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    They'd have to build that double track railroad out to my house :)
  16. Greg Mueller

    Kijiji, eBay, and Craigslist dishes for you to take a look at

    On FaceBook in the Ham Radio Equipment for sale or swap Discussion page.... Mary May Muscarello of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, posts this "free to good home" posting. I'm in NM or I'd be all over it. From her FB page...... It shows it as an auction but the posting on the ham radio page offers...
  17. Greg Mueller

    4DTV's Still Good for Anything?

    I've got one and it's High Def unit. Just been sitting for years
  18. Greg Mueller

    New to the Fta world

    Good idea If you are handy at making things you could use some threaded rod and a couple extra pieces of stuff
  19. Greg Mueller

    New to the Fta world

    Try some "30 Seconds" (Home Depot) and a truck washing brush on the mold
  20. Greg Mueller

    New to the Fta world

    If it's still on the pole and not off and leaning against something it is probably not warped (maybe) so you are probably safe in that respect. You won't need a mover to get going, you could just use a hand crank like they did in the early days. Mostly just concentrate on having fun.