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Battery Rover
11/02/2010, 3:01 PM
Large Satellite dishes 1.2 metre and above.

Top price paid for anything channel master but all makes accepted.

Limerick area please.
dahamsta
11/02/2010, 3:05 PM
Are you going to be putting all of these on your own house? Trading isn't allowed in here.
Battery Rover
11/02/2010, 3:09 PM
Are you going to be putting all of these on your own house? Trading isn't allowed in here.

Yep all for my own house. Its a hobby I have had for years and I spend hours just searching the sky for feeds etc without watching anything:D
dahamsta
11/02/2010, 3:19 PM
Fair enough. I've updated the thread title.
Boo_Boy
11/02/2010, 4:22 PM
Is it not easier just to have 1 1.2M dish and stick a motor on it?
Battery Rover
11/02/2010, 4:47 PM
I have a 2.3 metre and a 1.2 metre with motors but want to experiment with fixed dishes and different LNBs etc.
RonnieB
13/02/2010, 9:32 AM
Yep all for my own house. Its a hobby I have had for years and I spend hours just searching the sky for feeds etc without watching anything:D

A man after my own heart. I spent many a night and many a day messing with my dishes without every bothering watching anything! there is no fun in that! There are some cheap suppliers in Germany who sell decent gear even with the shipping costs it works out well. Will dig out a few links for you.

a 2.3m dish? One hell of an actuator needed to move that beast! What receivers are you using? I always wanted something around the 2.4m mark but sadly lack of funds...

*edit*

http://www.satellites.ie/index.php?act=catalog&cat=6&l=2 not sure of the build quality for that price though but it is cheap for a 1.5m. Problem with the cheaper dishes as you know yourself a good quality 1.2 could sometimes outperform a 1.5

triax 110cm http://www.hm-sat-shop.de/antennen-triax/ that said the build quality in Triax has gone down hill.
Battery Rover
16/02/2010, 3:40 PM
use a multitude of boxes from technomates, Dreamboxes, Eagle, Dark Box. getting into pretty much everything open source (Linux) for educational purposes only though.

Actuator is a a big 24 inch 24 volt power tech. Weighs nearly a stone by itself


The big dish is a channel masterhttp://www.sadoun.com/Sat/Products/S/TD-Actuator-Moteck.jpg