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Dish vandalism. Anyone been a victim?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony1A" data-source="post: 891303" data-attributes="member: 400984"><p>I can't remember if there is a thread about this matter. Here goes with my story. In 1998 when I lived half a mile further down the road than I do now, I had a 1m solid concentric dish aimed at 13e for Hotbird. My Sky dish was up at a height on the side of the building, but this one was pole mounted in the back garden. One (dark) morning I switched my satellite on to be greeted by a message of no signal. Hmm...strange. So I decided to have some breakfast and investigate later on when it got light.</p><p></p><p>When I stepped out the back door....oh what a sight. The fence had been kicked in and three panels were on the ground and to cap it all my dish had it's LNB arm broke off completely. Luckily I had tightened the nuts so much they could not get the dish off the pole. Boy, was I angry! So I called the police who were quite swift to turn up. It seems that local "yobs" had been taking wood from fences to put on a bonfire, but on seeing my dish they though they would try and get that too. They failed....whoops. I told the cop what I thought of these people in no uncertain terms and he agreed! I got my fence repaired and as luck would have it, I kept my old concentric 1m dish I used at my folks so I made one good dish out of both.</p><p>Going back to the early 90's, I know of one old guy who had his 60cm Sky dish nicked when they were asleep.</p><p></p><p>It really is sickening when things like this happen and I could use choice names what I think of such odious folk on here but I would be banned! Thank goodness nothing like that has happened here <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony1A, post: 891303, member: 400984"] I can't remember if there is a thread about this matter. Here goes with my story. In 1998 when I lived half a mile further down the road than I do now, I had a 1m solid concentric dish aimed at 13e for Hotbird. My Sky dish was up at a height on the side of the building, but this one was pole mounted in the back garden. One (dark) morning I switched my satellite on to be greeted by a message of no signal. Hmm...strange. So I decided to have some breakfast and investigate later on when it got light. When I stepped out the back door....oh what a sight. The fence had been kicked in and three panels were on the ground and to cap it all my dish had it's LNB arm broke off completely. Luckily I had tightened the nuts so much they could not get the dish off the pole. Boy, was I angry! So I called the police who were quite swift to turn up. It seems that local "yobs" had been taking wood from fences to put on a bonfire, but on seeing my dish they though they would try and get that too. They failed....whoops. I told the cop what I thought of these people in no uncertain terms and he agreed! I got my fence repaired and as luck would have it, I kept my old concentric 1m dish I used at my folks so I made one good dish out of both. Going back to the early 90's, I know of one old guy who had his 60cm Sky dish nicked when they were asleep. It really is sickening when things like this happen and I could use choice names what I think of such odious folk on here but I would be banned! Thank goodness nothing like that has happened here :) [/QUOTE]
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