[TowerTalk] Big Dish Available

[Stan Griffiths]

> You may recall that I listed a big available for sale here several months
> ago.  I got a bunch of inquiries about it, but they all faded out so I
> am telling you it is still available.
>
> The owner and man to contact about it for pricing, etc, is Lynn Hurd
> <lhurd@pacifier.com>
>
> Here are a few points of interest:
>
> 1.  The dish is 50 feet in diameter and rather deep, they tell me.
> 2.  Construction is mostly aluminum except the asmuth-elevation
> mechanism which is steel.
> 3.  It was originally a commercially made C band uplink prototype that
> was never completed.
> 4.  There is expanded aluminum mesh for the center 30 feet of surface.
> 5.  There is a hydraulic lift which is driveable and steerable (and
> needs the hydraulic pump fixed) which can be part of the deal.  This is
> ideal for getting to the feed point when changing bands.
> 6.  There is some, like 100 feet or so, 2 inch 50 ohm Andrew Heliax with
> connectors that can be part of the deal.
> 7.  There is a LOT of  stainless steel bolts, nuts, and washers.
> Hundreds of them.
> 8.  My wife has evicted this from our backyard after 5 years of no
> progress on it.  It was just too big of a project for Lynn, I think.
>
> I thought it was pretty nice of her to let it sit here for 10 years as
> it was.  Somebody, other than us, needs this thing in their backyard . .
> .
>
> Oh, yes.  You can have the 8.5 cubic yards of concrete too, if you can
> figure out how to get it out of the ground . . .
>
> Stan  w7ni@teleport.com




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