Spotted a rare conifer dish today.
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Hee hee, I still have the manual for them, and a brochure somewhere. That company started up in the early 80s, in Burlington Iowa. The manual is date 1983. Conifer was a subsidiary of Winegard.
The LNA was a 120 degree drake, with a down-converter that mounted on the pole, and fed into the receiver. The receiver used a pot to turn the motor. It also featured a regular polorator, unusual for the time.
I had a 12 foot like that, in black, that I tossed. The mount was gone, too much trouble then it was worth to make one (very complex mount.)
There is a 12 foot in black on top of the hospital in town.
I know someone who has a 8 foot mesh one. In the late 80s, Conifer switched to a more modern, round design. That's the one he has.
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The LNA was a 120 degree drake, with a down-converter that mounted on the pole, and fed into the receiver. The receiver used a pot to turn the motor. It also featured a regular polorator, unusual for the time.
I had a 12 foot like that, in black, that I tossed. The mount was gone, too much trouble then it was worth to make one (very complex mount.)
There is a 12 foot in black on top of the hospital in town.
I know someone who has a 8 foot mesh one. In the late 80s, Conifer switched to a more modern, round design. That's the one he has.
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I had two of those given to me last fall only to have the lying a$$hole that gave them to me let someone else have them after I had already taken one dish off the mount on one. They were 45 miles from me and I had 3 trips there and back preparing to bring one home and when I went to get it this spring both were gone. And this after I had called him 3 weeks earlier to make sure that they were still there?? After they came up missing I called the guy about it and wound up calling him what I thought he was and hung up on the bastard. That deal cost me about $50 in fuel not to mention the time.
RE: the mount? That is the reason I took me so much time to get that one moved as I separated the dish from the mount and was going to move it in two trips. That thing weighs a ton and was too much for two people to take off the mount. My last trip was with 3 ppl so we could get it off without hurting someone in the process.
What goes around, comes around and he will get his one day!!!
Yeah, I'm still pissed off about that one!
RE: the mount? That is the reason I took me so much time to get that one moved as I separated the dish from the mount and was going to move it in two trips. That thing weighs a ton and was too much for two people to take off the mount. My last trip was with 3 ppl so we could get it off without hurting someone in the process.
What goes around, comes around and he will get his one day!!!
Yeah, I'm still pissed off about that one!
Those are a 12 foot dish.
Nice Dish!! Does look like maybe some lawn care person might of clipped the bottom panels while cutting the grass with a lawn tractor.
Oh yeah. The first thing I noticed was lawn mower disease. Have seen a few dishes with that problem.Nice Dish!! Does look like maybe some lawn care person might of clipped the bottom panels while cutting the grass with a lawn tractor.
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