Ye Olde 18 year old 60cm BSB Channel Master dish

[A nonymous]

Well finally got it up on the wall pointing at 28.2e to feed the receivers upstairs so i don't have to keep going downstairs every morning to move the main dish back onto 28.2e so the kids can watch nick.Jnr !

Fantastic levels on it and it looks the part too :-worship

Just got to connect it into the DISEqC switches and hopefully everything should work well :toke:

Hopefully should last for a few more years yet

Its just a pity the old BSB logo faded from the dish face, so much so that it was virtually invisible without looking very closely

First pic shows it being tested on 13e before sticking it on the house

:-beer

Nano

 

[wod]

never seen one of them before i thought the bsb was just the square dish.

how did you get hold of it ?

 

[dasteelman]

yea...they had the extra one apart from the Squarials

 

[2cvbloke]

I have my 35cm BSB minidish hung up here in my bedroom, still waiting for me to sort out the LNB mount for it, but I have to say, BSB had far better minidishes than sky do, cos as your 60cm proves, being Channel Master dishes meant they lasted far longer than BSB itself (20 years just about!!!), and even in the HDTV age, they still work, to some degree!!!

 

[Analoguesat]

never seen one of them before i thought the bsb was just the square dish.

how did you get hold of it ?

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/retro-tech/152259-bsb-smatv-system-decommissioned.html

 

[2cvbloke]

Here's one for you, how do I attach an image that is already uploaded to the server?

Just want to attach these two is all...

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satelli.../9353d1163533082-bsb-minidish-bsbminidish-jpg

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satelli...stems/9356d1163533082-bsb-minidish-lnbuni-jpg

 

[Analoguesat]

Save them to your desktop rename them and load them back up

 

[2cvbloke]

Save them to your desktop rename them and load them back up

I suppose that's one way...

 

[rolfw]

I have an ancient fibre 60cm dish in my garage, will take a photo later, have saved it to use for 28.2, as it really is a high quality dish.

 

[satelliteman]

Nice result Nick

 

[rolfw]

Here's the one in the garage.

 

[satelliteman]

Nice Rolf, just needs a clean up and a feed.

 

[A nonymous]

I was quite lucky with mine in that respect as the dish had capacity for a normal 40mm lnb :-worship

Found the Mti twin lnb in the shed. Think it came off the old Global Orbit 90R dish from many moons ago

Dish no 9 i think that one was

On dish no 12 now in just over 3 years

 

[nelson_b]

I have an ancient fibre 60cm dish in my garage, will take a photo later, have saved it to use for 28.2, as it really is a high quality dish.

yes high quality - for sure -- i even think they are only 55 c.m.
ive used one when caravaning -- they have a realy good adjustment mechanism --
i,v modified the main lnb holder since the picture was taken -- to take a 40.mm universal lnb -- it can pickup eurosport 2 at 1 west - even in moderate rain

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[2cvbloke]

Here's the one in the garage.

Looks like it needs a good clean and a gel coat on the back...

And a Nokia LNB assembly, don't see many of them these days, at least not in use...

 

[Lazarus]

Here's the one in the garage.

Just finish off mounting it properly on that car and you'll be in business as a mini Outside Broadcast Unit!

 

[Philthy]

I see your 18 year old, and raise you 20 ;)
I'm not certain when it was fitted, but do know it was up before I moved abroad for a while in early 1990.
The dish spent the last 16-17 years ish, buried in my parents garage.
It is fitted with a quad lnb to feed my motorised system, and my daughters sky box.
It took a fair bit of duck oil to get the bolts free !

 

[2cvbloke]

I see your 18 year old, and raise you 20 ;)
I'm not certain when it was fitted, but do know it was up before I moved abroad for a while in early 1990.
The dish spent the last 16-17 years ish, buried in my parents garage.
It is fitted with a quad lnb to feed my motorised system, and my daughters sky box.
It took a fair bit of duck oil to get the bolts free !

That's an old amstrad-fidelity, we had one on my mum's last house, I had intended to resurrect it and replace the logo, but the new owner wasn't exactly too careful on removing it, and wrecked it...

But still, I always have my BSB minidish...

 

[A nonymous]

Blimey looks like an old Amstrad Fidelity jobbie

 

[CROSSBONES]

Nice little dish Nano

Is that the original wall mount?