Primestar Dish

[sc208]

Just finished putting up my Primestar dish project this weekend.Dish was aquired for free.I believe its a 75e. Had a Sony DSS dish there before but the pole diameter was too small.Put in a new larger diameter pole.Picked up a Zinwell 4x2 switch for $5.00 on ebay. Aimed it at 91 west for feeds.So far seems to work well.It was just a cheap side project to go along with my BUD.Lots of good info on this forum helped.

 

[Mr Tony]

very nice pictures! Thank for posting

The 75e is 37x27 inches and from the pic it looks right.

 

[KE4EST]

Looks like a good job.
Always nice to find an unused free dish and put it to good use. I have been given a few of those over the years.

 

[Mr Tony]

same here. When I had FTA I had accumulated a bunch of Primestar dishes through the years. LOVED the screw elevation...made fine tuning much easier

 

[Stargazer]

I still have a bunch of satellite dishes of many varieties saved up "just in case". They are great for wifi as well and hoping that more data content becomes available in the future spurring more demand. Got quite a few Hughesnet and Superdish dishes now which were similar to Primestar dishes.

 

[FaT Air]

I love my P*Star 'n' DTN dishes. Hard to beat that CM commercial quality. .7's, 1.0, 1.2's and the 75e and 83e

 

[pdiddy]

Just finished putting up my Primestar dish project this weekend.Dish was aquired for free.I believe its a 75e. Had a Sony DSS dish there before but the pole diameter was too small.Put in a new larger diameter pole.Picked up a Zinwell 4x2 switch for $5.00 on ebay. Aimed it at 91 west for feeds.So far seems to work well.It was just a cheap side project to go along with my BUD.Lots of good info on this forum helped. View attachment 112088 View attachment 112089

I use telephone company network interfaces,to house and water proof splitter,switches,grounding blocks ect.I try and keep everything out of the weather and dry.I live in Montana where we get quite a bit of snow.I also use Panduit stainless steel straps and spacer blocks to hold the conduit to the support mast.The stainless steel straps are pulled tight with a special tool.I found out too,not to use a steel fence post,the kind you can buy at home depot for a support mast.They are to thin and the fiberglass dish will move around in a storm.I've found that using a schedule 40 pipe works best,and buried at three feet. Good luck with your project.

 

[Mr Tony]

very nice!

 

[Mr Tony]

When I had mine they were so "ghetto rigged" that folks always laughed at them

Yeah thats an old kitchen table they were on...but hey it worked

 

[Mr Tony]

Damn I miss my house....not the payments, the stuff breaking and other things....but the fact I was able to put 3 antennas and like 12 dishes on the roof and deck

 

[pdiddy]

When I had mine they were so "ghetto rigged" that folks always laughed at them

Yeah thats an old kitchen table they were on...but hey it worked

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Did you at one time work for direct tv?

 

[Mr Tony]

nope. Just dishes I accumulated throughout the years. A couple of them I had, a few I acquired through folks here, 2 were in vacant lots and I just grabbed them

The 40x30 ones were the best
(by the way I have TONS of pics of the P* dishes in various spots on the house)

 

[sc208]

View attachment 112194 I use telephone company network interfaces,to house and water proof splitter,switches,grounding blocks ect.I try and keep everything out of the weather and dry.I live in Montana where we get quite a bit of snow.I also use Panduit stainless steel straps and spacer blocks to hold the conduit to the support mast.The stainless steel straps are pulled tight with a special tool.I found out too,not to use a steel fence post,the kind you can buy at home depot for a support mast.They are to thin and the fiberglass dish will move around in a storm.I've found that using a schedule 40 pipe works best,and buried at three feet. Good luck with your project.

That's a very clean looking professional install.Mine was just a side project was trying to keep it as cheap as possible.My main dish is a 10ft Winegard dish I use for searching C-band & Ku band backhaul feeds.

 

[. Raine]

I'm using the exact same telephone box that Pdiddy is using, It was left on the side of our house after we canceled our land line phone service and the phone co. left it even after a tree limb tore down the phone line, said they didn't want it. Moved it over by my dishes and made standoffs to mount my 8x1 switch inside of it, works great.