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Man oh man I loved the old C Band days. I was 13 years old when my dad got our Satellite dish. The Rcvr was a Drake ESR-324 with a 10 foot Paraclips dish. Was cool watching HBO unscramble. Watching wrestling on Saturday nights on WTBS. Watching westerns on CBN. My dad eventually got a Houston...

Oh dear lord my mom played Basil Bassett Bingo!. Sent from my Z932L using the SatelliteGuys app!

Green sheets was hosted by the late Sean Kenny. He also hosted "yellow rain" which talked a lot about VCII. SelecTV went off the air due to money troubles in the summer of 89. They were owned by Amway at one time and was at one time the sister channel to the Starion Movie Channel. I may be wrong...

In the early 80's we watched pretty much everything. In the mid 80's I found FM America with Keith Lamonica which made for interesting listening as it was on the American EXXXtasy channel with a sub carrier of 6.2. At that time they were still using Telis encryption and not VCII. I loved the...

The guy you were thinking of is Captain Midnight. Happened in April of 1986 when he jammed HBO signal and movie Falcon and the snowman. I too wonder where Keith Lamonica and Chuck Dawson are. The good old tvro days was awesome and as crazy as it sounds will never ever be replaced. Sent from my...

Wow I would love to hear that also. Keith and Chuck Dawson had some good battles between FMA and K-SAT. I started following Keith Lamonoica and Chuck Dawson in 85 right about the time HBO started test scrambling. Then in the summer of 86 a third TVRO station came on the air with North America...

Anything is possible lol. Although I have not tinkered with TVRO in a long time the history of it still makes it fun to talk about especially for those who were around during its glory days.

My dad got one in 83 and getting HBO in the boonies was awesome. It was a 10 foot dish with a big block down converter. The receiver was a drake ESR 324 receiver. I remember HBO test scrambled in the summer of 85 going full VCII in Jan of 86.

Wow did not know I would cause a storm by bringing up history of C Band. For those who were around back then it was a fun time. I remember both Keith LA Monica and chuck Dawson both in their respective ways fighting for C Band rights.

Hard to believe it has been 30 years since HBO fully scrambled. That was a day that changed the TVRO industry forever. In May of 86 Showtime would fully scramble and in the fall SelecTV would fully scramble. Due to HBO scrambling Captain Midnight would jam HBO's showing of The Falcon and The...

WOW Shaun Kenny made for interesting viewing back in the mid 80's... Greensheet and Yellow Rain were must see TV as back in those days you knew that somehow along the way the shaft was gonna be given to C-Banders... I often wonder what also happen to Chuck Dawson and keith Lamonica as well...

Man I love it when the good ole' days of C-Band pops up... First run when they first started used the old Sony decoder so all the voices were pitched way up and they used a funky video inversion system everybody looked like an x-ray... Select TV was still around up until around 1989 when they...

Wow!!!! Scott great article and it brings back the past and the glory days of BUD!!! I remember it well and oddly enough it was one month later when Showtime/TMC went VCII also.. Those were the good ole' days kinda like the good ole' days of broadcasting... I also remember People Choice PPV on...

As for Yellow Rain... It was cool because sometimes they would scramble the pic using the same method that The Fun Channel used... All you had to do was hit the video invert and the pic would clear up... I kinda discovered that trick with The Fun Channel as well:D. CC

HOLY COW!!!! I know I have been away from C-BAND for awhile... I had forgot all about Robert S. and his TVRO goodies... BTW since we are talking about things from the past I know this topic came up some time back, but is Chuck Dawson and Keith Lamonica still around... I remember them both on...

WOW!!!! Talk about a flashback... My faves were Cable Video Store CVS because they were always in fixed key mode for some reason so it was cool seeing all those movies before they were on SelecTV which by the time 88 rolled around was quickly going downhill... The Zap movies were something I...

AHHHHH The memories of Shaun... Back in the late 80's Thursday night was always fun to watch with GreenSheet and seeing all of those different satellite gizmo's he had... I had my satellite night visits pretty well tied up switching between Keith Lamonica, Chuck Dawson, and Shaun Kenny... Yellow...

Hey guys I thought I would go back in the time machine and bring up what was at the time a very hot button issue with BUD owners at that time... It was on this date in 1986 that HBO and Cinemax went full time with VCII scrambling... I remember Keith lamonica and Chuck Dawson having the phone...