I still remember when I first got setup with my BUD. I had looked at one of those G5 systems. They would install it for $2500. These were the good ole "door to door" guys. I almost fell for it too. Heck, I didn't know anything about satellite TV at the time.
Then I went to Rat Shack to see what they had. They had a complete 9' perf H-H system for $1,999 which was $500 less than the shyster system I almost bought. Plus, this thing could see more than one satellite, lol. The only catch was, I had to install it myself (or pay another $600).
Considering it was 1992, $600 was a lot of money after taxes. So I decided to install it myself.
Now a little back story... at this point in time, it had been 5 years since I had seen an OSU football game on my own TV in my own home. Living in the sticks without sat TV meant watching whatever you could get with an OTA antenna. So I was constantly having to go to other people's houses to watch the game. This was my number one reason for wanting sat TV.
The first weekend that I had it up and working, I knew very little about searching for wildfeeds. In fact, that first weekend, I didn't even have the right cable yet. I was using a make-shift cable rig that was routed through a window, lol.
I had stumbled onto a football game (not OSU), and was watching it. I remember how amazed I was at the picQ. When that game was over, I just started surfing. Then I couldn't believe what I came across... the OSU/OU (Bedlam) game. The game was on PPV cable in Norman Okla, and they were using C-Band to get it there (the game was being played in Stillwater).
Well I called my brother-in-law, who is as big of an OU fan as I am an OSU fan. He came over and we watched the rest of the game together. I'll never forget how awsome it felt to have a PPV Bedlam game on my TV, in my own house (and for free at that), because of this big thing I put in the yard.
And that's how I always remember when I put up my dish. There's a website that I have bookmarked that will show you any NCAA historical football score and the date it was played. In this game, OU kicked a FG on the last play of the game... which ended in a 15-15 tie... on Nov. 14th, 1992.
I've never been sorry once for putting up that dish... which still stands today.
Cheers