Bargain Second-Hand Big Dishes For Sale

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That's an OEM'ed Prodelin 120 cm dish with polar mount sold as an Echostar dish.
Work well, on par with CM120s. The Polar mount has the added advantage of being fully galvanised, although the plastic bearings has their opponents compared to the oilite (bronze) bearings of the CM mount.
The arms are rusting, though. And the LNB holder is made for 23mm feeds, not 40mm Universal LNBs.

Prodelin 1.2m w. polar mount

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Worth it just for the metal LNB holder and the feedhorn
 

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Looks a nice setup with original channel master polar mount and what looks to be a decent actuator?
Just up the road from me too.....
 

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Just up the road from me too.....
I have been wondering for some time:
Just why are there so many 1.2 Channel Master dishes with polar mounts in the UK?
What Sat-constellation meant that people in the UK needed 1.2 meter semi-pro dishes with polar mounts to watch tv?
As I have gleaned from nostalgia postings here, BSkyB and similar started on 19.2E, then moved to 28.2E while going digital.
But those 1.2 must be from the early nineties or perhaps late 80s.
In Sweden (and Denmark to a lesser degree), people put up polar-mounted prime-focus dishes to watch German, Dutch and French TV back in the 80s.
Did the UK public hunger for Dutch and German TV in the UK too?
Or was there even then a need to watch Saturday footie with a weird sound-track?
And why Channel Masters? Weren't they more expensive than many of the prime-focus PMs?
 

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It is a 150. But a bit overpriced, perhaps...

Talking of overpriced i bidded £100 on the 1.8

Then with ten minutes to go folded and upped it to £200

Probably for the best, i had nowhere to put it and it was a 9 hour ish round trip

Hope someone of the forum got it
 
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The Gibertini 1.25 has a straight box type plate running up the back of the dish.

You can see what I mean in the photo below
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