I went up to the Northwoods to visit my mother this weekend and stopped by a little Satellit Shop on the way. He used to sell C-Band now primarily sell DishNetwork. So I went in to talk FTA with him. I guess earlier that week he tossed out just about all his C-band. Well I asked if he had any KU then and he said he had bought a system a while back but never got to play with it and that I could have it at dealer cost if I wanted.
It is as follows:
* Centronics DS-3000 Reciever
Winegard DS-2076 76cm dish
DMS International ASC231 0.5db Standard LNBF
Cost: $175.00
I also got a used Dish 300 with LNB for an additional $20
As we talked after the sale he said wait you may as well take this, and went to the basement and brought up a c-band reciever set-up as follows:
General Instrument VideoChipherII 2600R Sat Reciever
A Blue Model 256 VC2 Module
General Instrument 2000PS Positioner
General Instrument Videopal PPV Order Reorder unit
He said he's been just leaving the BUDs or having a scrapman come for them when he does the DishNetwork installs. But he took my number and said I can have all I want if I come get them. Very cool of him. It's about 150 miles one way but what the heck.
Now a question on the Centronics Reciever. Near as I can tell it's the same reciever as
Pacific Satellite DSR-2882, Infosat DSR-9100, Cobra DSR-2882
It has 3000 channel memory, diseq 1.2 compatible, Auto search, AID-PID edit, no ac3 but supposedly pretty quick channel changing.
So what's the general concensus, pretty good deal? Usable C-band equipment?
Thanks, Mark
It is as follows:
* Centronics DS-3000 Reciever
Winegard DS-2076 76cm dish
DMS International ASC231 0.5db Standard LNBF
Cost: $175.00
I also got a used Dish 300 with LNB for an additional $20
As we talked after the sale he said wait you may as well take this, and went to the basement and brought up a c-band reciever set-up as follows:
General Instrument VideoChipherII 2600R Sat Reciever
A Blue Model 256 VC2 Module
General Instrument 2000PS Positioner
General Instrument Videopal PPV Order Reorder unit
He said he's been just leaving the BUDs or having a scrapman come for them when he does the DishNetwork installs. But he took my number and said I can have all I want if I come get them. Very cool of him. It's about 150 miles one way but what the heck.
Now a question on the Centronics Reciever. Near as I can tell it's the same reciever as
Pacific Satellite DSR-2882, Infosat DSR-9100, Cobra DSR-2882
It has 3000 channel memory, diseq 1.2 compatible, Auto search, AID-PID edit, no ac3 but supposedly pretty quick channel changing.
So what's the general concensus, pretty good deal? Usable C-band equipment?
Thanks, Mark