I finally disassembled my Directv satellite dish. It goes to the curb tomorrow.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

What a pain in the ass!

[JDC]

1. Save the nuts, bolts and washers. They use good stuff

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. My wife would kill me!

[pansypoo53219]

13. EVERYBODY should have a jar w/ nuts/bolts/svrews, etc. i bought 2 at estate sales.it had everything

needed for the 1926 house. except the vintage cabinet closure.

[ProudLib72]

17. I pick mine up off the road

Or when I'm at a pick and pull, I'll just swipe a bunch. I have drawers full of them!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I've read they make excellent birdbaths.

I used to have a few. I kept thinking, there has to be something you can do with these. I gave up and tossed them out.

[csziggy]

15. Here are some ideas for that!

https://www.hometalk.com/17187461/satellite-dish-to-bird-bath?expand_all_questions=1

http://www.thedabblingcrafter.com/2015/05/diy-sunday-satellite-dish-bird-bath.html

https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/garden-yard/recycled-satellite-dish-birdbath-zm0z12fmzhun

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, I dumped mine some years ago. I also had I think it was called Direct PC which

received the internet of sorts over satellite. Sometimes it worked ... but the whole shebang was unreliable. I think Hughes Satellite did it way back then and I guess became Direct-tv? Can't recall all the details now.

[samnsara]

7. wasnt one called...satcom?

[RKP5637]

9. Could be. I think my combo was called PC Direct but a quick search now ... I could not find anything

[nykym]

5. I knew someone in town that

took 2 of the old big satellite dishes, you know the ones that were 8 feet across.
Well he bolted the 2 together and added lights. When he was done he had himself a very reputable flying saucer parked on his front lawn.
There back!

[samnsara]

6. is that one of the really BIG ones cuz I still have mine up!!!

[Codeine]

12. I used to install those as a side job

back in the day. We laughed at those silly little dishes that were coming out.

We didn’t laugh long.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Not so long ago, there was a website dedicated to keeping those in use.

Apparently, if you're in the right location, there's a lot of unencrypted stuff you can still get.

I'll look....

The big commercial site I'm thinking of is gone. It doesn't look as if there's anything recent.

C-Band satellite dishes used by TVRO systems

[ret5hd]

8. Are you sure???

[Laffy Kat]

10. Don't they come and get them when you cancel your service?

[Codeine]

11. When I had DirecTV you had to buy the dish.

That was back in ‘99, so maybe it’s different now. I left it bolted to the house when I moved and switched to U-verse at the new place.

[Laffy Kat]

16. Oh. Well, I'm about to cut the cord on mine.

Guess I'll find out.

[csziggy]

14. No - they want the receiver boxes back but not the dishes

They sent me a pre-paid shipping label to return the boxes. I guess it's too expensive to ship back the dishes.

I have one sitting around here - maybe I should make a bird bath out of it - we can always use another water source for the birds!

[hunter]

19. They want you to leave it on your house in case you change your mind or move away.

Which is funny, because a competing satellite company will just put up a new dish, and so will the old one because their independent contractors want to charge for the full installation.

Some of our neighbors have multiple unused dishes attached to their homes.