Chaparral Monterrey 90

[elzipa]

I am looking for a reciver to move my BUD and slave it with my Pansat 9200hd and there is a guy selling a Chaparral Monterrey 90 for $50.

I have not been able to find any information of that receiver (manuals, specks, etc)

Question is this reciver good for the work these days the way I am planning to use it?
Thanks

 

[elzipa]

Any body with manuals or information about this receiver?

 

[14karat]

Looks like a basic analog receiver - good for dish mover & polarity...
I found these (add http:// in front!)
myweb.accessus.net/~090/monty.html
ww.chaparral.net/support/faqs/monterey.html
dallas.craigslist.org/dal/ele/981492852.html

 

[starman345]

An online manual of sorts here:
hxxp://www.satellitehelp.com/chapmonterey_index.asp
Those were a high end receiver in the day. I almost bought one back around 1991, they were going for a little over $2000(canadian) at the time. Should move your bud just fine. Look for the Monterray 95 in the link, I think that was the later version of the 90.

 

[tvropro]

I had a Monterey 50 from from 1990 till I got my 4DTV in 2006. That receiver was great it did everything even made me coffee Payed over $1500 for it. Too bad the remote died and with the demise of analog It wasn't worth trying to find a new one (they quit making the remote years ago) I decided it was time for the 4DTV.

I plugged the thing in the other day after sitting for a couple years and the thing won't even boot right anymore. I checked the lithium battery and it had only three tenths of a volt in it. I guess it lost all my custom settings. I think if I replaced the battery & did a master reset it would come back to life. Then I could use it as a analog receiver with 1990 settings but with no remote it wouldn't be able to do much.

 

[elzipa]

Thanks for your responses... I will check either this thing still works...
It looks that all those rceivers use a Littium battery and some how it has to be changed time to time.

Just curiosity why these boards need a battery and they are not like other receivers that do not have one...? Does it need to keep something alive inside?

 

[Likvid]

Monterey 90 was the highend receiver of the late 80's.

It was often called the Rolls-Royce of receivers, way ahead of the competetion with nice unique features.

Buy it if you need it.

 

[cabral]

sorry to interupt, but i am also looking for a receiver to move my 10' c/ku dish it came with a echostar SRD-4000 that won't turn on, would it happen to have a battery in it? but if not what else could i use to rotate the dish would a 4DTV receiver work or do i have to go with an analog receiver which i haven't be able to find.

 

[olegray]

cabral: If you are looking for an analog receiver, O'Rourke Sales Co. in Davenport , IA has some new sealed in box Next Wave listed on EBay. I bought one for $15 plus shipping