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Acquired a 8 ft spun aluminum dish yesterday. A DH perforated with a Starcast H to H mount. In really great condition. The original installer clued me into this one - belonged to a nice elderly couple up in the high desert.
The H to H mount has a huge 3" x 38" ring, easy declination adjustment, turnbuckle elevation, powered by a Chaparral ballscrew linear actuator motor. "Milk stool" feedhorn support with 3 focal length adjustable legs.
Feedhorn scalar still has the gold anodizing. Holes in the dish are almost pencil diameter so its its C-band only for this dish. This shallow dish has good gain according to the installer.
Focal length of 36" & f/D of 0.375. 90 inches from lip to lip(8 ft "nominal" diameter).
Though not worth much they included the Chaparral Cheyenne analog IRD, UHF remote & other goodies. Even the original sales brochures & manuals for DH & Chaparral were intact. I'll scan these to pdf & upload later on.
Anchored the dish to 2x4s mounted in the P/U stake holes with deck screws through holes at 4 places & cross-strapped the dish down - gently. Shipping pads at both ends of the bed to cushion the dish.
Lots of steaming gawks on the highways & freeways back home.
Blessed desert climate.
But hey - its horizon to horizon.
This one should remind Anole of his find in the 2009 Adventures in dish hunting.
The H to H mount has a huge 3" x 38" ring, easy declination adjustment, turnbuckle elevation, powered by a Chaparral ballscrew linear actuator motor. "Milk stool" feedhorn support with 3 focal length adjustable legs.
Feedhorn scalar still has the gold anodizing. Holes in the dish are almost pencil diameter so its its C-band only for this dish. This shallow dish has good gain according to the installer.
Focal length of 36" & f/D of 0.375. 90 inches from lip to lip(8 ft "nominal" diameter).
Though not worth much they included the Chaparral Cheyenne analog IRD, UHF remote & other goodies. Even the original sales brochures & manuals for DH & Chaparral were intact. I'll scan these to pdf & upload later on.
Anchored the dish to 2x4s mounted in the P/U stake holes with deck screws through holes at 4 places & cross-strapped the dish down - gently. Shipping pads at both ends of the bed to cushion the dish.
Lots of steaming gawks on the highways & freeways back home.
Blessed desert climate.
But hey - its horizon to horizon.
This one should remind Anole of his find in the 2009 Adventures in dish hunting.
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Well, isn't that special . . . ? -
I've seen pictures of dishes like this before, but none had the DH nor AMCI name attributed to them.
Some were reported to be 10' in size, but you never know (people do make mistakes).
I'm thinking maybe back in the day, real dish makers like DH, OEM'd bare dishes out to anyone who wanted a good one.
Then, companies like AMCI tricked it out to suit themselves and sold under their own name.
My dish is eerily identical, with the 8' size, the weld across the middle, and that rolled-over rim.
Even the shape of the LNB cover hints at similar DNA.
Frankly, the info I have on the perforated Birdview makes me wonder, too.
Yes, please do scan any related documents you find.
Ya may have found the missing link (a secret all the installers of the day knew), that we've overlooked! - :up
Well, isn't that special . . . ? -
I've seen pictures of dishes like this before, but none had the DH nor AMCI name attributed to them.
Some were reported to be 10' in size, but you never know (people do make mistakes).
I'm thinking maybe back in the day, real dish makers like DH, OEM'd bare dishes out to anyone who wanted a good one.
Then, companies like AMCI tricked it out to suit themselves and sold under their own name.
My dish is eerily identical, with the 8' size, the weld across the middle, and that rolled-over rim.
Even the shape of the LNB cover hints at similar DNA.
Frankly, the info I have on the perforated Birdview makes me wonder, too.
Yes, please do scan any related documents you find.
Ya may have found the missing link (a secret all the installers of the day knew), that we've overlooked! - :up
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Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
www.usgs.gov
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
Monitoring Data for Kīlauea
For more information on how electronic tiltmeters and GPS receivers help monitor the deformation of Kīlauea volcano, see the HVO Deformation page.
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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Since the Reds have there thread we should too!
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Last of the Dogmen is my favorite of hers.
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Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.
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Oh boy, I can't wait!
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I grow tired of all the reboots. Most I don't bother with but will depend on the actor chosen.
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I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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