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I have an opportunity to obtain two large satellite dishes from a local radio station. The dishes are large (7-10 feet in diameter) and stand 12 feet on their stands with commercial quality counterweights and positioning hardware. The radio station no longer uses them and the station engineer tells me they are of an old 2 or 3 degree (he couldn't remember which) configuration that is no longer usable to them. I don't know what the 2-3 degrees is a measure of, but they are very nice dishes. Is there any way these can be used or at least modified for FTA C-Band use?
I have an opportunity to obtain two large satellite dishes from a local radio station. The dishes are large (7-10 feet in diameter) and stand 12 feet on their stands with commercial quality counterweights and positioning hardware. The radio station no longer uses them and the station engineer tells me they are of an old 2 or 3 degree (he couldn't remember which) configuration that is no longer usable to them. I don't know what the 2-3 degrees is a measure of, but they are very nice dishes. Is there any way these can be used or at least modified for FTA C-Band use?
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Both of those dishes are on fixed mounts. They cannot be motorized. 
However you can do a multi-lnbf setup. I would go for sats at 97W, 99W, 101W, 103W,. put two LNBFs on each dish. One would have 97W and 101W, the other with 99W and 103W. This would give you a very nice selection of C-Band channels.
However you can do a multi-lnbf setup. I would go for sats at 97W, 99W, 101W, 103W,. put two LNBFs on each dish. One would have 97W and 101W, the other with 99W and 103W. This would give you a very nice selection of C-Band channels.
Looks to me the first dish is on a polarmount but in a fix position by the four welded bars .Both of those dishes are on fixed mounts. They cannot be motorized.
No sure if this has been addressed yet, forgive any repeating.
The "Scientific Atlanta," was marketed for radio stations, and usually installed back in the 1980's to receive 139W in fixed position. Unique in mount, unique in how it's polarity was chosen for the LNB. The mount is MASSIVE, and usually sat on about a 4 x 4 by at LEAST a 4' pad for stability. Many stations still use these, in fact WE do, but now it's aimed like most other stations, at 105. I can't speak to it's 2 degree compliance, but the engineering is amazing. There's a rod that comes down through one LNB support strut that turns with a screwdriver to run gears which flip the LNB from one polarity to another. With some engineering you could put a modern LNB on it, and as others have said, a "fixed" dish is great for 99w, 101w, 103 w, any C-band bird with enough open feeds to add to your viewing experience. You will, however have more engineering to reinstall
this model than in a standard "pole mount." The Scientific Atlanta units are VERY stable, and have multiple lockdowns for horizontal and vertical position so you won't be drifting, that's for sure! They'e very HEAVY but can be disassembled...plan on quite the project. Given your situation, not probably suited to your intended use, however...for SOMEONE...not a bad thing for a "fixed" install that will last probably forever with almost no maintaining, except maybe some painting now and then, and some treatment to nuts and bolts on the mechanisms. Pictures attached of our re-aiming this year for network radio..
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The "Scientific Atlanta," was marketed for radio stations, and usually installed back in the 1980's to receive 139W in fixed position. Unique in mount, unique in how it's polarity was chosen for the LNB. The mount is MASSIVE, and usually sat on about a 4 x 4 by at LEAST a 4' pad for stability. Many stations still use these, in fact WE do, but now it's aimed like most other stations, at 105. I can't speak to it's 2 degree compliance, but the engineering is amazing. There's a rod that comes down through one LNB support strut that turns with a screwdriver to run gears which flip the LNB from one polarity to another. With some engineering you could put a modern LNB on it, and as others have said, a "fixed" dish is great for 99w, 101w, 103 w, any C-band bird with enough open feeds to add to your viewing experience. You will, however have more engineering to reinstall
this model than in a standard "pole mount." The Scientific Atlanta units are VERY stable, and have multiple lockdowns for horizontal and vertical position so you won't be drifting, that's for sure! They'e very HEAVY but can be disassembled...plan on quite the project. Given your situation, not probably suited to your intended use, however...for SOMEONE...not a bad thing for a "fixed" install that will last probably forever with almost no maintaining, except maybe some painting now and then, and some treatment to nuts and bolts on the mechanisms. Pictures attached of our re-aiming this year for network radio..
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
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I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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