1983 press photo

[toucan-man]

The photo is distorted, but that's one beefy looking dish in the foreground,

 

[Tom Taylor]

Gee,,, brings back a lot of memories,,,,, The antenna looks like Janeil Dark Star, plastic ribs which the sun often destroyed in a few years! The man looks like Dick Glass from Indiana and the Satellite Dealers Association!

 

[toucan-man]

If that's the Janeil Dark Star, maybe that photo isn't distorted at all. "I'm melting, I'm melting..."

 

[waylew]

It's a JDS,I know,I had one,what a POS.

 

[wallyhts]

Lol oh my gosh plastic ribs.

 

[wallyhts]

Gee,,, brings back a lot of memories,,,,, The antenna looks like Janeil Dark Star, plastic ribs which the sun often destroyed in a few years! The man looks like Dick Glass from Indiana and the Satellite Dealers Association!

Mr. Taylor got any time on a Wednesday to come on Satellite Nation? If need be I can make the drive from Louisville up to your place and get everything setup.

 

[Lone Gunman]

The dish in the background looks like that Conifer that I got screwed out of a couple of years ago.

 

[Dee_Ann]

I had one of those. Or actually I inherited one of those. Several years ago when we sold some family property there was one buried in a junk pile, I asked if it was worth saving and everyone told me to RUN! as fast as I could away from it.
I left it there to be bulldozed. It was a 12 foot, mostly plastic dish. And it was pretty busted up..

 

[toucan-man]

An old Kaultronics dish, I don't recall ever seeing this model.

 

[Magic Static]

An old Kaultronics dish, I don't recall ever seeing this model.

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That's the same dish as the one I replaced this year. It was branded "Laser C/Ku"

 

[toucan-man]

That's the same dish as the one I replaced this year. It was branded "Laser C/Ku"

Good dish, bad dish ?

 

[Magic Static]

Good dish, bad dish ?

Mediocre at best. It wasn't the worst C-Band dish I've had, but not near as good as my Channel Master Perf or the Winegard Pinnacle. But to be fair it was slightly "potato chipped" warped, maybe a 1/2" from flat. The one I had was converted from a buttonhook to a quad leg. I cut the buttonhook mount off the dish before I put it up. The CM 3m I replaced it with is amazing. It will out perform a 1.2m offset Ku dish on some strong Ku transponders and will hold it's own on the weak ones.

 

[toucan-man]

I've been searching for a Channel Master Perf but haven't found one. Kicking myself for not getting a Birdview Perf when it was available, but that's a bigger project and not a 10 footer.