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<blockquote data-quote="Delstron0" data-source="post: 1153768" data-attributes="member: 419180">Seller here, I know you boys are interested in the outcome so thought I would let you know the score.&nbsp; The dish has indeed sold on ebay for slightly less than the 490 but the buyer did not want any of the TV related stuff as it will to be returned to its original role as a microwave point to point comms dish.&nbsp; He is delighted with his good fortune at picking up the dish at less than the cost of carriage of an alternative, inferior, new dish.I said I would share with you the source of the dish when I picked it up in 1999.&nbsp; Well we were collecting eggs from a farm 10 miles away and spotted a tripod (lnb arms) sticking out of the ground with ducks paddling around a little pond beneath it.&nbsp; I had a look and expected the dish to be full of dents and holes but it was perfect.&nbsp; At that time I was using a 1.2 Channel Master.The farmer, Peter (not Toby) was happy to see it gone so I fetched the trailer and some 4x2 and made a cradle.&nbsp; Precision were still going then and were very helpful with dating the thing and also confirming my calcs on focal length etc were correct.&nbsp; First 15 years was spent on C band then C/Ku with a co-rotor.&nbsp; As the advert said it always seemed to outperform its size and its a shame that its now lost to the sat TV community.Thanks for your interest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delstron0, post: 1153768, member: 419180"] Seller here, I know you boys are interested in the outcome so thought I would let you know the score. The dish has indeed sold on ebay for slightly less than the 490 but the buyer did not want any of the TV related stuff as it will to be returned to its original role as a microwave point to point comms dish. He is delighted with his good fortune at picking up the dish at less than the cost of carriage of an alternative, inferior, new dish. I said I would share with you the source of the dish when I picked it up in 1999. Well we were collecting eggs from a farm 10 miles away and spotted a tripod (lnb arms) sticking out of the ground with ducks paddling around a little pond beneath it. I had a look and expected the dish to be full of dents and holes but it was perfect. At that time I was using a 1.2 Channel Master. The farmer, Peter (not Toby) was happy to see it gone so I fetched the trailer and some 4x2 and made a cradle. Precision were still going then and were very helpful with dating the thing and also confirming my calcs on focal length etc were correct. First 15 years was spent on C band then C/Ku with a co-rotor. As the advert said it always seemed to outperform its size and its a shame that its now lost to the sat TV community. Thanks for your interest. [/QUOTE]

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