4' Channel Master Ku dish recovery

[rrob311]

They are finally replacing the roof at my work. So I drive a car around the building on a test drive yesterday. Lo and behold there was a 4' fiberglass Ku dish on a flat roof mount in some construction debris along with a Dtv dish with a roof mount. They had been dropped two stories or so to the pavement. The right hand side of the dish is damaged some but everything else was unscathed. I claimed the dish and will be setting it up soon. I don't have a 4' setup yet so I am hopeful it will have better reception than my cheap metal 39" Ku dishes.

[el bandido]

Do you have any pictures of the dish?

[rrob311]

Here are a few pictures I took. The dish was dropped from the roof into the debris pile, I moved it to the grass before taking pictures. It is in the process of being setup today.

[rrob311]

I tried setting up the dish at 103w the last couple of days, first with an old lnbf I had from another dish. I then took the feed on it and cleaned it up and put a new Norsat LNB I had in storage. The old LNB that came with it had been packed with dirt. Still no transponder locks but I have some tree issues. I went ahead and ordered a new Sat finder that does dvb-s2. I will probably reposition the dish and try again later this week. I still have the new heated Prodelin in my garage but I would rather just set up this free dish.

[rrob311]

I still haven't got a whiff of a transponder with this dish. I'll probably move it across the yard time permitting. I have a new Inverto c120 lnb purchased a while back that I will probably put on the factory mount(just need to find it). The dish is tweaked a bit from being tossed from the roof but I am confident I can find a good use for it. The norsat lnb I replaced the dirt packed one with hasn't worked so far. Model 4508A. Enclosed is a spec sheet for it:

[rrob311]

It turns out I have some tree issues at 103w. My other dish started having problems in the same spot a couple of years ago before I took it down due to the mount rotting away. So I spent some time the other night and got a solid lock on 89W. The dish has very good reception considering the damage. I'll probably move it early next week weather permitting and try to get 103w again. Experimenting with a cheap WSI lnb I have and the Norsat shows roughly a 20% difference in signal. The WSI is the higher one.