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Hey Guys, It wasn't on my to-do list, but I seem to be getting older. To the point were I can no longer live at my remote home in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico (near Los Alamos). So I'm going to give away my 4 C-Band dishes. Two 8 footers, a 10 foot and a 12 foot. The 12 foot is an early Paraclipse model, and would be quite a DIY project to get it going, so don't get too excited about that one.
First up is my 8.5 ft Birdview on a H to H mount. It goes to the first person who can give me a firm commitment to come get it in the next few weeks. I live 8 miles down a rough dirt road. I can't help much with the disassembly and loading of the dish onto your vehicle. It will probably take at least two strong guys to lift the reflector and the separate mount. I have all the tools needed to disassemble it. You will need at a minimum, a pick-up truck and straps to tie it down.
I last used it two months ago and it worked fine. It comes with an older model dual output Titanium LNBF, and a Ku band prime focus LNBF. I still have the original scalar feed and LNB. It has separate H and V outputs. It worked OK when I last used it 10 years ago.
I've done a few mods to it. Added limit switches and a turnbuckle for fine tuning the elevation. Also an adjustment to fine tune the azimuth, but that didn't work out as well. It doesn't have a declination adjustment. That adjustment is done by adding shims between the dish and the mount.
The other dishes are mesh dishes, which I hope to store at my new home outside of Santa Fe, near I-25. They should be a lot easier to transport. I will get to those in a month or two. Please be patient about those, I will get to them. I just have a lot going on right now. I don't have any dish movers available. I use a homebrew one, which I am keeping.
Some photos:
First up is my 8.5 ft Birdview on a H to H mount. It goes to the first person who can give me a firm commitment to come get it in the next few weeks. I live 8 miles down a rough dirt road. I can't help much with the disassembly and loading of the dish onto your vehicle. It will probably take at least two strong guys to lift the reflector and the separate mount. I have all the tools needed to disassemble it. You will need at a minimum, a pick-up truck and straps to tie it down.
I last used it two months ago and it worked fine. It comes with an older model dual output Titanium LNBF, and a Ku band prime focus LNBF. I still have the original scalar feed and LNB. It has separate H and V outputs. It worked OK when I last used it 10 years ago.
I've done a few mods to it. Added limit switches and a turnbuckle for fine tuning the elevation. Also an adjustment to fine tune the azimuth, but that didn't work out as well. It doesn't have a declination adjustment. That adjustment is done by adding shims between the dish and the mount.
The other dishes are mesh dishes, which I hope to store at my new home outside of Santa Fe, near I-25. They should be a lot easier to transport. I will get to those in a month or two. Please be patient about those, I will get to them. I just have a lot going on right now. I don't have any dish movers available. I use a homebrew one, which I am keeping.
Some photos:
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We haven't decided on a price yet, but I can email anyone interested when it shows up on Zillow in a few weeks. Comes with 4 C-Band dishes, 5 Ku Band dishes and some ham antennas. Mainly 2200m and 630m transmitting antennas. Also included is a 3 bedroom super-insulated passive solar home on 10 acres. Total off grid. Only 45 minutes to the grocery store. On a good day. Be prepared to plow your way out over a 9000 ft pass in winter. I already sold my plow truck. Done with that.
It's a great place for ham radio. Very low levels of RFI. I frequently receive WSPR beacons on 137 kHz from Australia and Japan. Often the only one in North America who does.
Lots of wildlife, Elk, Bears, Mountain Lions, etc. At 8500 ft, so not too hot in the summer and snow in the winter.
Lots of adventures to be had. In 2011 a wild fire burned down our entire community, including all my satellite dishes. On the mesh dishes, the mesh was totally burned away. My spun aluminum dish looked like a giant taco. Not much left of the fiberglass ones. Just a small pile of white fibers that I raked up into a garbage bag. Had another fire in 2022, but we survived that one ok.
Here is a photo of all that remained of one of my 1.2 meter PrimeStar dishes.
It's a great place for ham radio. Very low levels of RFI. I frequently receive WSPR beacons on 137 kHz from Australia and Japan. Often the only one in North America who does.
Lots of wildlife, Elk, Bears, Mountain Lions, etc. At 8500 ft, so not too hot in the summer and snow in the winter.
Lots of adventures to be had. In 2011 a wild fire burned down our entire community, including all my satellite dishes. On the mesh dishes, the mesh was totally burned away. My spun aluminum dish looked like a giant taco. Not much left of the fiberglass ones. Just a small pile of white fibers that I raked up into a garbage bag. Had another fire in 2022, but we survived that one ok.
Here is a photo of all that remained of one of my 1.2 meter PrimeStar dishes.
Yes, it was a huge fire 
I'm keeping my 90 cm and 1.2 m antennas. Unless someone buys the house. Then they can have them.
I didn't mention the Ku antennas I'm giving away, because they are all kind of small. All of these have a 10.75 GHz LO. One is a WorldDirect antenna, one is the 35 inch PrimeStar fiberglass antenna with separate H and V outputs, and also a 26 inch antenna with a circular feed for 119w. I think not of use anymore. That reflector surface is the only one that survived the fire. I also have a Ka band HughesNet antenna. All free to a good home.
I'm keeping my 90 cm and 1.2 m antennas. Unless someone buys the house. Then they can have them.
I didn't mention the Ku antennas I'm giving away, because they are all kind of small. All of these have a 10.75 GHz LO. One is a WorldDirect antenna, one is the 35 inch PrimeStar fiberglass antenna with separate H and V outputs, and also a 26 inch antenna with a circular feed for 119w. I think not of use anymore. That reflector surface is the only one that survived the fire. I also have a Ka band HughesNet antenna. All free to a good home.
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As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
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For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
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Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. 
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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.
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.
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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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.
Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...
NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system
I'm glad to see ...
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OTHER Mini Multiswitch
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
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