Dumpster Diving

[NiteOwl]

I went dumpster diving last night and picked up a couple of dishes. The Muzak service next door chucked a 1 meter Channel Master and a 30" fiberglass dish with LNBs on them. They also threw away 3 non-invasive roof mounts. Now I just have to get them on the roof and hook them up!

 

[Mr Tony]

sweet

dumpster diving...the hobby of FTA'ers

 

[NiteOwl]

I couldn't believe they tossed a perfectly good 1m dish. I think I have a dish for my ASC-421 lnbf.

 

[Tron]

Great find!!! Testimonials like these give me the inspiration to go out and find another dish or two I really am in need of another non-pen roof mount for the ol' T-90 project as well...

 

[norman]

I have that type of mount. But using it on the ground. Big cinder blocks and working well for the 18" dish.

 

[Change]

A friend of mine brought back a 76cm ChannelMaster fiberglass dish on a non-penetrating mount after a visit to a radio hilltop. People abandon all kinds of neat stuff up there...get to know your local amateur radio repeater owners and other radio site techs

 

[ken2400]

Pics would be GREAT if you find some time.

I went dumpster diving last night and picked up a couple of dishes. The Muzak service next door chucked a 1 meter Channel Master and a 30" fiberglass dish with LNBs on them. They also threw away 3 non-invasive roof mounts. Now I just have to get them on the roof and hook them up!

 

[Azel]

I got one of those Muzak dishes a few years ago. A resturant was tossing it.

I'm using it now. Works great. I still have the original LNB on it. Single polarity but otherwise its a standard 11.7 ~ 12.2 GHz LNB.

 

[detroittech]

) I really am in need of another non-pen roof mount for the ol' T-90 project as well...

I always pick up a few of them in spring from service calls...from techs who couldn't get a pole in somebody's yard that winter

 

[mdovell]

. The Muzak service next door chucked a 1 meter Channel Master and a 30" fiberglass dish with LNBs on them.

I know what Muzak is but I'm just wondering...do you mean the actual company is near you or a company used it to pick up muzak music?

I see dishes on businesses all the time but I always thought they would have some internal stuff rather than just straight muzak. If it wasn't for the internal stuff at work I probably would have been fooling around with it on the roof during lunch

 

[chadzx11]

I counted 7 primestar dishes in a trailer park this morning....