Greetings from Costa Rica

[Greg Mueller]

Hi Guys
I´m down here in a nice warm spot and next door is a guy with a 20´ c-band set up and 4D receiver. I chatted with him about his rig and he´s interested in getting some US network feeds. I´m trying to figure out if he can get any KU birds with his 20´ way down here in San Jose. The dish is a real beauty and I´ve taken some pics which I´ll post when I get back.
So what do you think.

PS
This is the land of the 1 meter dish. Almost every house has a directv 1 meter or ¨star¨ dish.

I´ll check in tomorrow morning
Thanks

 

[starman345]

Dam! Costa Rica in December I spent most of the day shovelling snow from the blizzard we got overnight, must be 2 feet of new stuff out there. I'll be watching for the pictures of that monster dish.

 

[thiggin2]

I will be down there in April. I can't wait. Almost 100 days to go .

 

[rv1pop]

Greg, you'll be happy to know the ferries ran out of fuel! We have 23 inches of snow here in Lynnwood. AND SeaTac airport just got de-icer (in last 20 minutes) so they may be getting flights in and out soon. Oh,yeah, more snow tommorrow night! And fuel trucks are not making drops up on the Samamish Plateau!
Do you really want to come back, now?

 

[eurosport]

Hi Guys
I´m down here in a nice warm spot and next door is a guy with a 20´ c-band set up

20 FOOT C-Band?!?! :

 

[Greg Mueller]

We were sweating bullets getting out of SeaTac on Saturday. We could see the storm coming and all the flights were getting cancelled. We finally made it to San Jose an hour and a half late, but we made it.

We don´t have to come back until Jan 2

 

[Davage]

With a 20 ft C-Band dish, couldn't he get Galaxy 16 at 99 West for the Network channels on that bird?

 

[Cadsulfide]

Lucky dog! Bring me back a couple of those 1 meter dishes as your carry on baggage!

 

[Mr Tony]

yeah same here...a 1m would be nice

 

[Tron]

The ultimate irony is that those 1 M dishes (probably Channel Masters or maybe Winegards) are being used to receive DirecTV I wish D* would start using those around here, with the number of subscribers they have in my area I'd be in 1 M dishes up to my ears!

 

[Greg Mueller]

The 1 meter dishes they use here, are stamped out dishes, for the most part, like the pizza pans. Once in a while you will see a molded dish but most of the time, not.

We are at Sugar Beach, now, swimming in the Pacific Ocean. Our internet connection is through a two meter dish, which is pointed way over to the west. Its a little hit and miss

Merry Christmas everyone

 

[Greg Mueller]

The 20' dish in Costa Rica.
It somehow looks smaller in this picture than when you stand next to it and look at it

 

[Greg Mueller]

Typical CR Dishes

Two dishes you see a lot of in Costa Rica

 

[Cadsulfide]

So...are you back home?

 

[Greg Mueller]

Yep
Got back last night at 10:30

 

[Cadsulfide]

Welcome back to the wet!