Big Old Dish

[slocoma]

I recently purchased a house with one of those big old satellite dishes in the back yard. They also left their receiver, an Echostar 600 (I think). Is any of this stuff worth anything to anyone or should I just throw it all in the trash?

When I moved in I got DirecTV and they just put up one of those small dishes on the roof.

 

[Mr Tony]

How big of a dish in the back yard?

Where ya located?

Reason I ask is the old dishes people find uses for those C-Band dishes.

 

[slocoma]

I don't know how big. What is a standard size dish? Looks like 6 foot round, maybe. Hard to tell since it's up off the ground a bit to begin with.

I'm in Northwestern, PA. About 45 miles south of Erie, PA.

 

[Mr Tony]

bummer

If you were closer to MN, I'd come and take it...no use right now (ewxcept a giant bird bath), but ya never know

 

[slocoma]

Then dish meets sawzall in the near future.

 

[TBI]

Then dish meets sawzall in the near future.

If you list it on EBay for $0.01 someone may come remove it for you.












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[Diamond Jim]

Are you crazy? Spend a few bucks and fire that baby up. It would be a worthy investment not to mention all of the entertaiment you will get out of it.

20 year BUD man.

 

[slocoma]

If you list it on EBay for $0.01 someone may come remove it for you.

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Removing it and disposing of it isn't a problem. I would be more of a hassle to coordinate having someone come out to get it.

 

[TBI]

Removing it and disposing of it isn't a problem. I would be more of a hassle to coordinate having someone come out to get it.

I understand what you are saying I just hoped somehow the dish could be recycled by someone getting into C-band.
There seems to be a growing demand for these as people like me grow tired of DirecTV controlling my freedom of choice, remember if they had their way Dish and DirecTV would be one company now. I live in a rural area and will never see cable here.
So after being an 8 year DirecTV customer I am firing them soon because I have a legal Free to air system that brings in good channels with less commercials some times.
I am in the process of gathering all the components to setup a C-Band dish all I need is a dish at my main residence now and I will have access to three times as many channels as DirecTV at a much higher quality.

 

[boba]

I believe the figure is less than 750,000 people nation wide still subscribing to "C" band programming. RIP!