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Will a 4000 dish work with a 6000 system the reason for asking i am buying a tripod but would like to leave my home dish mounted ,Where is the best place to find a used dish ,Sorry if this has been ask before. Thanks Chuck
Posts: 1 | From: Foxworth Ms. | Registered: Aug 2005
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There are only Direcway dishes (not 4000 or 6000 dishes). As long as it is a 2-way dish (with a transmitter mounted under the arm) it will work with 4000, 6000 and, coming soon, the 7000's.
-------------------- Bill Adams Winegard Company Posts: 15711 | From: Traveling the Western US | Registered: May 2003
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Sounds like your checking on ebay. Some people there will advertise their systems as DWay 4000 or 6000. They are referring to the modem that the system uses.
The Dish and Transmitter will be the same [work] with either modem.
I bought a Dway 4000 system [modem & antenna] on ebay for $75.00. Mounted the antenna [dish & transmitter] on a fixed pole at home and added the modem to my 'useful junque' pile.
-------------------- Holiday Rambler LE/Chevy Tracker 4wd F1/D2/7000s/117w/1070/WRT54G See where I am today Posts: 807 | Registered: Jul 2004
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There are minor differences in the dish electronics between the white one with a flat-bottomed transmitter and the gray ones with a rounded transmitter.
They don't make any difference to normal operation but you will need a 22Khz filter to use an OPI with the gray dish, a filter isn't necessary on the white dish.
Really old systems have a flatter transmitter wrapped in a plastic shield and I don't know about them.
-------------------- Tripod 7000 Pro on 99 at 1110 Linux and WiFi Posts: 664 | From: RV somewhere | Registered: Nov 2004
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