Adventures in Dish Hunting 2008
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My time to score one. I live in a high density area of south Florida and dishes are far and few.I spotted one over the weekend and called a freind to tell him about it. Turns out the owner of the building is a longtime freind of his and she says come and get it you can have it. Looked at it up close today[well from the ground and it is about 10 feet up] and it says channel master on the mount,not any rust visable and is a mesh dish about 8 to 10 foot. It has four feedhorn supports. Don't know whats under the hood for lnb yet. Looks like a 36 inch actuator on it.To bad I am leaving to go to my home in SC tommorow, but come the first of the year this baby will be mine! By the way Jself if you are reading this I will be in your area next week and I have 10 acres looking for a bud if you know of any in the area.
I'm big into Primestar ovals. I've got five running. Primestar was a big provider in my area back in the late '80's. I love the oversized engineering. They are super heavy duty and easy to point. They're easy to get and usually free. I've installed two for people wanting G10R (Galaxy 18).
I've got one 1.2 meter dish. Its the only one I've ever seen. I'm using it for Galaxy 25 now. During the summer there was a transition to a new satellite and the signal got very weak from G25. I ordered a .2 linear lnb and set up the bigger dish to increase quality.
I wish I had two or three more of the 1.2 meter (36 inch) dishes. It brought the quality up on G25 about five points.
I've got one 1.2 meter dish. Its the only one I've ever seen. I'm using it for Galaxy 25 now. During the summer there was a transition to a new satellite and the signal got very weak from G25. I ordered a .2 linear lnb and set up the bigger dish to increase quality.
I wish I had two or three more of the 1.2 meter (36 inch) dishes. It brought the quality up on G25 about five points.
1.2M is about 47.2", sure you have the 1.2 dish? It's stamped on the back near the top. I have a couple of the 1.0M dishes which work great, even the slightly smaller .90 round works very well. The elliptical (84e) are very good, got 2 of them.
Actuator looks fairly new, that dish may still be in use.
But it never hurts to ask!!!
Are the 2 "white boxes" on the piece of horizontal angle iron that is attached near the top of the pole, limit switches?
They may be, the guy has horses in this pasture. I have talked to him about a tower for my ham radio, but I am going back tomorrow to ask about the dish, it look to be at least 12 ft.[(sorry for quality of pics, but it was overcast & I could not get very close)
quote=phlatwound;1645395]Actuator looks fairly new, that dish may still be in use.
But it never hurts to ask!!!
Are the 2 "white boxes" on the piece of horizontal angle iron that is attached near the top of the pole, limit switches?[/quote]
quote=phlatwound;1645395]Actuator looks fairly new, that dish may still be in use.
But it never hurts to ask!!!
Are the 2 "white boxes" on the piece of horizontal angle iron that is attached near the top of the pole, limit switches?
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I THINK the two white boxes just might have been downconverters. they were used back in the day before LNB's.
EDIT: Looking at it again..they just MAY be limit switches! Interesting. Never seen it done that way before.
That dish is in bad shape. well, not the dish so much but the pole is gone. To add to it, that pole you see is a sleeve, so you HAVE to have it to use the dish. Which means in this case you will have to make another one, cut the cap off of the pole you have, and weld it on the new square tube.
Another thing against it is that its a buttonhook feed, which over time usually sags, not so bad for c-band, but murder if you have any aspirations of trying Ku band.
If you want to try, by all means have at it, but speaking only for me, I'd keep driving.
I have a Paraclipse with the H-to-H mount, its nice but hard to work with.
EDIT: Looking at it again..they just MAY be limit switches! Interesting. Never seen it done that way before.
That dish is in bad shape. well, not the dish so much but the pole is gone. To add to it, that pole you see is a sleeve, so you HAVE to have it to use the dish. Which means in this case you will have to make another one, cut the cap off of the pole you have, and weld it on the new square tube.
Another thing against it is that its a buttonhook feed, which over time usually sags, not so bad for c-band, but murder if you have any aspirations of trying Ku band.
If you want to try, by all means have at it, but speaking only for me, I'd keep driving.
I have a Paraclipse with the H-to-H mount, its nice but hard to work with.
I was going to start a new thread for 2009, but saw that someone had beat me to it, but now I can't find that thread.
Oh well, I guess I'll start one for the new year.
Same here, lol. I know it was named the same, other than 2009.
I was going to start a new thread for 2009, but saw that someone had beat me to it, but now I can't find that thread.
Oh well, I guess I'll start one for the new year.
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