This dish has been mine for quite some time but I just got around to picking it up last night. It belonged to a lady my Mom played bridge with who unfortunately just passed away from lung cancer.
I worked on it around 2 years ago when the actuator went out and all she wanted was for it to be set up so she could watch the Sci-Fi channel, she didn't want to put any money into it. So I did that manually for her and shortly after that Sci-Fi went digital so she stopped using it as she had a Star Choice sub for her main watching. I asked her if she wanted it removed and she said "absolutely!". Since then she fell ill and I ran some cable for her and hooked up her Star Choice in her bedroom so she could watch from there as she was too weak to make it to the living room.
She passed away about a month ago and I don't think I'll ever work on that dish without thinking about her.......one heck of a nice lady with a spunky personality right up 'till the end.
She mentioned to her sister in my presence that I was to get the dish so I got a phone call earlier this week to ask if I still wanted it and of course I did.
So I took about an hour last night and removed it from the mount and split it in two halves. It is quite a bit lighter than my Orbitron is (thank goodness!) so I was able to handle it easily without doing too much damage.
It has a decent LNB, a 21° Norsat which as far as I know still works well. The actuator I know to be bad but that's ok.
I'll post pictures when I can. The dish looked nice and straight as I sighted across from side to side and aside from a few hail dents and some moss growing on it, it's in very good shape!
Thanks Pat!! We'll miss you.
I worked on it around 2 years ago when the actuator went out and all she wanted was for it to be set up so she could watch the Sci-Fi channel, she didn't want to put any money into it. So I did that manually for her and shortly after that Sci-Fi went digital so she stopped using it as she had a Star Choice sub for her main watching. I asked her if she wanted it removed and she said "absolutely!". Since then she fell ill and I ran some cable for her and hooked up her Star Choice in her bedroom so she could watch from there as she was too weak to make it to the living room.
She passed away about a month ago and I don't think I'll ever work on that dish without thinking about her.......one heck of a nice lady with a spunky personality right up 'till the end.
She mentioned to her sister in my presence that I was to get the dish so I got a phone call earlier this week to ask if I still wanted it and of course I did.
So I took about an hour last night and removed it from the mount and split it in two halves. It is quite a bit lighter than my Orbitron is (thank goodness!) so I was able to handle it easily without doing too much damage.
It has a decent LNB, a 21° Norsat which as far as I know still works well. The actuator I know to be bad but that's ok.
I'll post pictures when I can. The dish looked nice and straight as I sighted across from side to side and aside from a few hail dents and some moss growing on it, it's in very good shape!
Thanks Pat!! We'll miss you.
