TVRO Dishes / LNBs

[KA8WTK]

  When my son moved from San Jose to Portland, he took his old TVRO dishes and LNBs (LNAs?) with him. Once in Portland he changed to a different provider who gave him a new converter, dish/LNB. My son knows me well so he saved the two dishes, mounts and LNBs for me to play with.
  The converter box is useless without a subscription, which I don't intend to get (OTA for me!). The dishes could probably be used with 10 GHz tranceivers.
  Does anyone know of another use for these pieces? The dish is too small for a sled.
  
Bill KA8WTK

Ok, TVRO on the net seems to refer to the old C band big dishes. This is the smaller type like for Direct TV.

[W7TFO]

I made a birdbath out of one...

73DG

[K5WLF]

A team of our astronomy students at the university I work at built three radio telescopes using DirecTV dishes and the plans from the June (IIRC) 2009 QST. Turned out pretty well. Neat project.

ldb
K5WLF

[KA2DZT]

scrap metal, steel is about 8 cents a pound

[KB2WIG]

                                               wok??


klc

[KL7OF]

I have a 9 ft steel mesh..... big ugly dish with an electric jackscrew rotator and a manual tuner...Last time I checked there were still quite a few network feeds and the NASA channel some god channels and some hunting and fishing stuff...all unscrambled