Cancelling Sky and using Freeview

Moneymaker wrote: »

The press tooling cost well over £100,000 at the time and had to be spark-eroded to an accurate contour. Every single hole in the dish face was punched by a hardened steel pin, so some poor sod had to fit all those pins to the tooling. You might think it wasn't high-tech but it was close to being state-of-the-art in those days.

I had to check the date wasn't 1 April. Are you talking about the near circular 600mm analogue dishes? If you are the design has changed quite a lot. My dish looks as though it has been pressed out of a mesh sheet. How else do you get the holes around the edge? I can't imagine Alan Sugar using a mesh disk if it was more expensive to produce than a solid dish.

One thing which has changed a lot with the elliptical dishes is the LNB mounting. If the LNB fails it may be necessary to replace the dish.