Adventures in Dish Hunting 2009

[zaxxon]

No Doubt, Nice dish find. I have been using one just like it for thirteen years.

 

[No Doubt]

Cool Zanxxon, I am just starting with my site survey. What are you using for a LNB? Any pics?
No Doubt

No Doubt, Nice dish find. I have been using one just like it for thirteen years.

 

[lonewolf85]

Perforated birdview update #2

I have just go off the phone with the owner. I have talked her down to $100.00 apiece on the dishs she did say that if she finds the receiver boxs she wants $50 for them. She is going send me some pics of the other dish tomorrow.

 

[linuxman]

I have just go off the phone with the owner. I have talked her down to $100.00 apiece on the dishs she did say that if she finds the receiver boxs she wants $50 for them. She is going send me some pics of the other dish tomorrow.

Tell her she can keep the original receivers. They are absolutely worthless except with the OEM LNB that comes on the dish and the original potentiometer that moves it.

 

[Techfizzle]

potentiometer that moves it

you mean servo. the old 70 mhz systems are oldhat

 

[linuxman]

you mean servo. the old 70 mhz systems are oldhat

No I mean potentiometer.

The Birdview dishes came from the factory with a Potentiometer on the worm gear for tracking where the dish was on the arc. Their original receivers did track the "pulses" with the Pot.

The Birdview OEM LNB/A or whatever it was was voltage controlled and had no need of a servo.

 

[Techfizzle]

did they make a voltage controlled servo for a chappral feed? something that I could hook a rg-6 to and it would controll it?

 

[lonewolf85]

Tell her she can keep the original receivers. They are absolutely worthless except with the OEM LNB that comes on the dish and the original potentiometer that moves it.

If she does find the receivers I will want them to use to move and conntrol my offset birdview dish.

 

[1captain]

did they make a voltage controlled servo for a chappral feed? something that I could hook a rg-6 to and it would controll it?

Not that I know of but chaperral made a dual band ortho feed to fit that birdview scalar, an also a dual c-band ortho feed, the chaperral feeds where turn down smaller in size that would slip right into the orginal birdview scalar, an stop where machining ended, they where a perfect fit.

Now Cal Amp made a 1-wire controled lnb, which was their 1st atemp for a lnb-f, an alot of times that was used on birdview dish when they did a up grade receiver, but the Cal Amp lnb would not fit into the scalar ring, so that needed to be changed.

 

[Techfizzle]

how good is the bcs621?

 

[zaxxon]

No Doubt, I have a 4DTV receiver and use a Chaparral Corotor II. I use a 13K C band LNB and a KU LNB, don't remember the temp on the KU.

Never had to replace the KU LNB but lightning has burned a couple of C band LNB's

I keep an extra C and KU LNB on hand just in case.

My dish mover, acuator, is going bad so I bought a new one, just waiting for warmer and dryer weather to install it. The old one will not move when the temp. is in the twenty's.

 

[14karat]

I have just go off the phone with the owner. I have talked her down to $100.00 apiece on the dishs she did say that if she finds the receiver boxs she wants $50 for them. She is going send me some pics of the other dish tomorrow.

I'd go for one of them...
If you don't want them both, I'll race gabshere to Pocahontas... I think I'm a bit closer...

I better repent... my 'dish acquisitions' money is gone until March or April...

 

[gabshere]

I'd go for one of them...
If you don't want them both, I'll race gabshere to Pocahontas... I think I'm a bit closer...

I better repent... my 'dish acquisitions' money is gone until March or April...

lol well i'ld love to have a birdview or two , i'm still looking here and have located seven. I just have to track down the owners and talk em out of them

now if Lonewolf needs help moving or setup , i could probably do that. its much to wet for me to work on my dishes here

 

[14karat]

SEVEN??

I think a trip to Cleveland is in order here...
Let me know if you need any help.

 

[linuxman]

Finally at long last, I got my 6 foot Prodelin that I have waited over a year for. It came with a nice commercial non-penetrating mount and everything.

Here are the pics:



For those of you who haven't read, I am working on a project to get the entire Ku arc on fixed dishes.

This addition will certainly come in handy.

 

[voomvoom]

This addition will certainly come in handy.

You don't have to rub it in...??

 

[Techfizzle]

what the heck kind of feed is on the prodelin looks like a heat sink!

 

[14karat]

Looks like a trx/rcv

 

[linuxman]

what the heck kind of feed is on the prodelin looks like a heat sink!

The LNBF that is currently on it is a data transmitter and receiver combo for receiving high speed internet from satellite.

I won't be using it.

 

[osu1991]

Found this one yesterday, out in the country north of Tulsa. Still in use according to the misses of the house and probably true as I saw no pizza dishes around either.