Memories of Galaxy 10R

**Iceberg** · 11-11-2009 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by neljtorres

Those where the good old days my friend!

yes they were

**Corrado** · 11-11-2009 12:33 PM

I was thinking about this subject over the weekend. I was watching some recordings I made of Get Smart from the various G10 channels. The station slates, weather girls, Beau the dog, theme music, promos for other long lost programs all bring back pleasant memories.

**guapoharry** · 11-11-2009 01:31 PM

WOW that lineup was excellent. I got into this too late for that.

Yeah, I just wiped out a bunch of 2007 era Equity channels off of a receiver that had not been used in a while.

It was like remembering that day when the Equity channels had red screens.

Oh well, they're gone.

Very pleased that the Luken channels survive...

**N5XZS** · 11-11-2009 04:50 PM

Yes, I missed the G-10R's stations line up......

To bad, I can't get out of town local news like KTWO-DT from WY or KARK-DT Little Rock, ARK, anymore

And yes I loved the TUBE-TV music channel these were the days to live more, but sadly they all but gone....

**tvropro** · 11-11-2009 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Iceberg

The Tube rocked! Retro Jams was OK but the repeating of songs got old real quick. The Tube had a great variety of videos

you're right Tron. Lots of folks had G10 only dish setups.....and a few of us had receivers in our setups designed just for G10

I remember getting The Tube on AMC-3 C band when I got my Pansat. I didn't have my G-10 ku dish up yet. It was a great channel. Retro Jams was pretty good. VH1 classic can get quite good at times still.

**Panavision** · 11-11-2009 06:41 PM

G10R was my first satellite. Living in an apartment with heavy tree cover, I was speechless when, one day after searching for two full weeks, G10R popped right in. Once I was able to receive all the other sats, I realized how special G10R really is (was).

**Dishman Dan** · 11-11-2009 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by tvropro

Retro Jams was pretty good. VH1 classic can get quite good at times still.

Retro Jams had a lot of neat footage that I never saw on VH1 Classic!

I should of recorded a bunch of it. Some stuff I cannot find online either!

**tvropro** · 11-11-2009 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Dishman Dan

Retro Jams had a lot of neat footage that I never saw on VH1 Classic!

This is true, right now though VH1 Classic is all we have though. I should have recorded some also. I have on tape 6 hours of the the 20th anniversary of MTV the first day that VH1 Classic aired from a few years ago. That has some video's I never see on VH1 classic normally. I also have stuff from VH1, MTV, and Much Music Canada from the middle to late 80's.

**TRG** · 11-11-2009 08:00 PM

My first fixed dish was aimed at 123. Then I added a LNB for 119 (NASA) and 129 for whitesprings (which is also gone now). I loved that setup.

**AcWxRadar** · 11-11-2009 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Iceberg

Was looking through some old websites via archive.org and decided to check out Lyngsat....after looking at a couple pages I saw something that was interesting

Pics are from 5/1/05 and at one time on G10 we had
-Equity channels (including the tube which kicked major butt)
-5 radio stations (KEXP on Research TP and 4 from Equity)
-the nets that are not on G16 C-Band (well just the big 3)
-Pentagon channel (remember that version that we called "the bootleg version" since the Pentagon channel site didnt list G10 as a spot...also the audio was off by a 1/2 second)
-KTWO

and some of the newer FTA folks wonder why some of us had a fixed dish at 123W for a long time? At one point you had all networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, UPN, CW, ION) minus PBS on one dish...what more could you ask for?

Oh the Memories! What a sad notion to know that we have lost these channels. I am sad. I am truly sad and this is the reason that I would like to start up a new broadcast company that supports our measures of FTA and attempts to replace what we have lost.

This is quite a dream, but I would like to be able to do this and if I keep trying, maybe I will find a way. I am pursuing it with the ability that I can muster. It won't be easy, there is just too much competition with the pay channels as I am sure that you agree, butI am going to keep trying as I believe that TV should be totally free and I want to make it so.

At least we still have a few, and enough that we can still be proud of.

RADAR