WHere are you?`If within driving distance, NoDoubt and I would be in a race --- in this snow?--- to get over to get them!
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Adventures in Dish Hunting 2009
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WHere are you?`If within driving distance, NoDoubt and I would be in a race --- in this snow?--- to get over to get them!
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Wow that guy must have got real upset with the upload speed of his internet providers. super find!
Well all I had was my blackjack's camera. Going to meetings around the state and didn't think about seeing dishes, so didn't take a camera with me and the photos are not the greatest.
The first is a 10' Channelmaster at a hotel in Okmulgee, OK. I was in a hurry, but I will be going back tomorrow or Wednesday because in addition to this there was a 1 or 1.2 meter dish on a non penetrating mount sitting next to a junk yard, I saw as I was leaving town, late for a meeting or I would have turned around for it.
The second is a perforated birdview out between Shawnee and Tecumseh, OK
The third was still in use outside the Pottawatomie County Health Dept and appeared to be fairly new.
The last was by an old hotel along Interstate 40 near Earlsboro, OK
The first is a 10' Channelmaster at a hotel in Okmulgee, OK. I was in a hurry, but I will be going back tomorrow or Wednesday because in addition to this there was a 1 or 1.2 meter dish on a non penetrating mount sitting next to a junk yard, I saw as I was leaving town, late for a meeting or I would have turned around for it.
The second is a perforated birdview out between Shawnee and Tecumseh, OK
The third was still in use outside the Pottawatomie County Health Dept and appeared to be fairly new.
The last was by an old hotel along Interstate 40 near Earlsboro, OK
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That fence and power poles in the 2nd picture must've been thru some of the tornado alley winds. Or else you were really flying as you took it! LOL
I would stay away from the 4th one the mesh is missing.
the fence is leaning too so im guessing ternador
the fence is leaning too so im guessing ternador
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A lot of wooden utility poles look like that after a couple of years in Tornado Alley. Some of my clients are making a move to metal poles now, but at $1000 for a wooden pole and $4500 for a metal, it will take time.
The pole was leaning, the fence I wasn't paying attention to. I grew up down in that area and had an hour to waste and was running around checking out the places I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years. So I might have been exceeding the speed limit ever so slightly!
The fourth one I just stopped for the heck of it. I saw it from the highway so I swung by on my way back. If I hadn't of wasted time there, I probably could of stopped and inquired about the 1 meter.
I would take any of them if they were close to me! If I was driving through, I would take them along for the ride, even THOUGH I HAD to buy a trailer to do it!
Out where he was, they would accept it if he called it a farm load. After all, it is for his Dish Farm! Just need the red triangle on the truck!
I've had my eye on a few for the past little while. I have a 10 footer that's going up in the spring (perhaps temporarily sooner if I can swing it). There's a spun aluminum one I've been looking at for years I think is about 8' but the last spun alum one I had wasn't all that great for C-Band. Perhaps I'll set it up for Ku if I can get my hands on it.
Every so often I'll spot one then forget about it. My plan is to have at least one motorized C-band and one motorized Ku by the fall of this year. Also a few fixed ones........well, probably as many as I can get my hands on! But I want to go at it heavily this year and get rid of all pizza pan dishes.
Every so often I'll spot one then forget about it. My plan is to have at least one motorized C-band and one motorized Ku by the fall of this year. Also a few fixed ones........well, probably as many as I can get my hands on! But I want to go at it heavily this year and get rid of all pizza pan dishes.
found this 10 ft prodelin will see about getting real soon
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Update on the perforated birdview that I posted earlier. The owner called me this morning and It turns out that she has two of these dishs one is at another place of hers and that she wants $300.00 for both of Them. What do you guys think?
did you talk about what kind of shape they are in , if they have had the reed switch conversion added & the c & ku upgrade. plus if the motor is working on both. they would probably be worth that. i would probably go for it are they both perfs ?
did you ever get rid of the unusual birdview ?
are they both perfs ? did you ever get rid of the unusual birdview ?
gabshere What I do know is that the one I have took pics of is in good shape except for all the mold growing on it .You can't see to good in the pics but it has already had the scalar ring milled out for a co-rotor on it. As for the other one all she said was that it is just like the other one and that she has the recevivers for it and that it is a dual receiver system. Yes I still have the offset birdview dish.
That reed & 24-magnet conversion kit was $70 or $80, and not currently available.... she wants $300.00 for both of Them. What do you guys think?
The 8-magnet conversion is garbage, and worth nothing.
I'd look at how high they are mounted.
If way up in the air and a pain, then that's a big job.
Then, there's a matter of access.
I think Linuxman passed on one, which was harder to drive up to.
I'm looking at one in a small back yard with a high fence. (see my pix)
Pretty sure the dish was there first.
If the fence doesn't have a gate in it, I may be up $&|+ creek.
Other mods and receivers may be worth quite a bit to ya.
I'm not anxious for a 4DTV receiver.
If I had to pay to get a dish that had an actual 4D box, and I knew I could sell it, that would be a factor.
I thought you were going to put your side-saddle Birdview into service.
I've been waiting for the thread with all the inside scoop! - :up
Now here you are considering the purchase of not one, but two!
After all, you know the old saying, "A Bird in the hand . . . " -
Haha, yeah a lame joke obviously. If only I had a place to put a 10' dish of my own. Oh well, one of these years.
I would have to repectfully disagree One with out the conversion is garbage. The 8-magnet conversion is better than nothing.
I thought you were going to put your side-saddle Birdview into service.
I've been waiting for the thread with all the inside scoop! - :up
Now here you are considering the purchase of not one, but two!
After all, you know the old saying, "A Bird in the hand . . . " -
One word I am lazy.I can guarantee that if I had the mounting pole for that dish and if it had the Reed & feedhorn conversions It whould already be in the ground.
Funny, I was like "what does that mean"? lol.
Haha, yeah a lame joke obviously. If only I had a place to put a 10' dish of my own. Oh well, one of these years.
10 point - Zero buck == do you really want to know? Originally, (in my family anyway) 10 points - Looks like a good rack and usually some what tall, so shoot quick. You get to the buck, and it was a neighbors cow, under a tree....
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