I just joined the website today because I have an old 10 fott mesh C-Band/ Ku-Band satellite dish mounted on my roof that hasn't worked for a few years. I bought it in 1998 and my receiver is General Instruments 4DTV. The motor seems to work but the dish doesn't move anymore and I haven't be able to go up on the roof to check it out. I am planning on selling my house and I know whoever buys it won't want the big monster up there. Is there someone professional in my area of southern New Jersey near Philadelphia that can help me take it down? I would also like to know if it is worth taking with me when I move? I have read some of the posts and it seems that a lot has changed since it last worked.
Looking for some answers about my C-Band dish
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Worth taking it with you depends on if you will use it.
However, considering you have not used it in the last 13 years, I am guessing you will not.
What it is may be worth to you is the price of scrap medal or as a gazebo roof.
However, considering you have not used it in the last 13 years, I am guessing you will not.
What it is may be worth to you is the price of scrap medal or as a gazebo roof.
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I moved your thread to the free to air area where more folks will be able to help with options or even taking the dish
There is still plenty up there to use the big dish for
I moved your thread to the free to air area where more folks will be able to help with options or even taking the dish
There is still plenty up there to use the big dish for 
A 10 ft Al mesh dish is only worth $17 if all steel screws are removed. I just took a half beat up one in to recycle. Had seen too many hail storms & was beat to L plus rips in it.
If you'll take a few pictures from different angles and post them, maybe someone would be interested in removing and taking it home.
That would save you the expense and effort of having it removed.
We help people find dishes new homes all the time.
List the dish brand and model, LNBs and feedhorn info, if you have it.
That would save you the expense and effort of having it removed.
We help people find dishes new homes all the time.
List the dish brand and model, LNBs and feedhorn info, if you have it.
Since it sounds like you are going to take it down, then by all means, take it with you when you more!
That all depends on what you have planned for it. It could be offered to someone here who will put it back in service. Or you may want to enter the FTA Hobby. It could be disassembled into sections, and stored, until this question is answered. Removal from the roof may likely require a boom truck(small crane) or man lift rental, and maybe a torch, as you say it doesn't move anymore. Could be the pivots are rusted badly, as up on the roof, it probably didn't get much in the way of annual servicing. So a great percentage of the answer will come from it's condition, and an estimate of the work required to refurbish it.
Yes, a lot has changed, and is forever changing.
Actually I did use it a lot until it stopped moving about 4 years ago. I had it seviced once by the people that installed it, but they closed up. I always had trouble with the wind knocking it around. I don't think the mast is too heavy to lift, but I could be wrong. I have to go out and by a new ladder and go up and look at it. I believe it is a winegard. My receiver is General Instruments DSR-920. I am probably going to take it with me. Thanks for everyone's help. That thing cost me a lot of money and I'd hate to just junk it.
Get an DVB-S2 receiver with good blindscan (like the OpenBox S9), a new LNBF so you don't have to mess around changing polarities manually anymore (with a dish that big i recommend the BSC621-2 it does C and Ku), and you'll be ready to scan away the sky looking for feeds. Every day you will find dozens of occasional feeds, be it from news reporters sending their story to their channel, or sports (there have been two to three daily feeds from MLB spring training, yesterday alone there were a couple for the Yankees-BoSox, one from YES, the other one by NESN), there was also college basketball and NBA games. Plus there are literally hundreds of channels available for free (in the Mexican satmex satellites there are 120 channels total, and lots of them air movies in english with spanish subs, sometimes in spanish with english subs... yeah weird but happens LOL, and even BBC/Discovery Channel documentaries on those channels). Even though its not accepted to post that info in the open in this forum, you can get pretty good heads up to where to look for the info that you're about to look for (tonight for instance there will be championship boxing available through PPV in the US but available for free over the air in México, delayed by a few minutes, and every time there is a big fight you'll find it altough delayed it doesn't matter if you're not spending 40-50 dlls on a PPV, in three or four fights you get to watch your investment will be more than paid by itself) =).
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If you want any personalized heads up on where to look, check your private message, i'm more than happy to help a "newbie" get his/her fix of TV =).
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