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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
If the area you are in is anything like where I live big dishes are pretty much for the asking and the labor to take it down. Trying to fix a warped one would not even enter my thoughts since in probably less than an hour I could have one located and a deal set to take it away.
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Not too many big dishes around here. I think mainly because it is so hilly and the trees are so thick that almost nobody has a view of even a small fraction of the arc. I've seen 2 big dishes within about a 20 mile radius, that were obviously un-used. One was one of those old, old fiberglass things that probably wouldn't work on Ku, but also my wife wouldn't consider letting me take, because it is so ugly. The other one was a nice looking dish, but the thing was up on about a 25' tall pole. I didn't have a clue about how I could get the thing down undamaged. I once lowered a dish off about an 8' pole with a home-made rig made up of a pulley clamped to the pole, and a cable connected to the dish and my car over the pulley, however I wasn't sure I could even climb this pole to get to the dish. I have no idea how they ever got it up there. But I guess when you're in a valley between hills, you need to get your dish high.
I used to be able to find occasional small dishes at a local dump, but the dump decided to not let people from my town visit anymore. :-( (My town is too small to have a dump of it's own.)
I have connections at a nearby trash to steam plant/transfer station, and the guys there promised to tell me if anyone dropped off a sat dish, but so far nothing. Probably, if a dish made it that far, it wouldn't be in good enough shape to work anyway.
It also used to be that you would see people take dishes to ham fests, and if they didn't sell, they would just give them away, however the ham fest near here changed it's
rules because people were using it as a cheap dump, and it cost them more in trash removal than they made from the participants.
I never thought about putting an ad in the paper. Not sure about that.