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Well, no word on the FTA system. Been watching for an email confirmation number. Nothing yet. I need to stay away from the Titan TV site, as I keep planning what I am going to watch, even before I have the system 
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iafirebuff said:Ahhh the "old" days! Lets see... we had a black and white tv, channels 7, 9 and sometime the public station. CBS on 2 was iffy. I found as a child growing up in the early 70's that if I put a wad of tinfoil on the rabbit ears, I could pick up a "distant" out of market station
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so true...except we had only 2 stations (CBS & PBS) where I use to live
Moved to the outskirts of the Twin Cities and was amazed we could get 5 channels
(PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, IND...2,4,5,9,11)
on Saturday mornings we would get Channel 12 from Mankato (CBS) some 55 miles away
then we got a station that you needed a "loop" antenna for (29)
then this new network called "Fox" came along
iafirebuff said:Ahhh the "old" days! Lets see... we had a black and white tv, channels 7, 9 and sometime the public station. CBS on 2 was iffy. I found as a child growing up in the early 70's that if I put a wad of tinfoil on the rabbit ears, I could pick up a "distant" out of market station
so true...except we had only 2 stations (CBS & PBS) where I use to live
Moved to the outskirts of the Twin Cities and was amazed we could get 5 channels
(PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, IND...2,4,5,9,11)
on Saturday mornings we would get Channel 12 from Mankato (CBS) some 55 miles away
then we got a station that you needed a "loop" antenna for (29)
then this new network called "Fox" came along
When I had my room in our basement when I was a teenager - early 80's, I hooked some 300 ohm antenna wire to my suspended ceiling's metal ttracks and reception improved alot ;-) Then in 1984 with my paper route money, I subscribed to cable tv! My folks would not pay for tv. My dad was a career firefighter, so since all city buildings had cable tv in them, whenever he was at work (24 hour shifts), he had cable to watch but we went without! So I subcribed to it. Weird deal, as I signed the contract - the cable co didnt care
but we went without! So I subcribed to it. Weird deal, as I signed the contract - the cable co didnt care 
We had one CBS station up until 1965 when we got an NBC station, didn't get an ABC station until 1973, it's changed ownership a few times and is now FOX. A town of 70+ thousand and no ABC station
. Back in the 50s and 60s on a good night we could get CBS (WISH 8), NBC (WFBM 6) and WLWI (ABC 13) from Indianapolis and an Indpendent (WTTV 4) from Bloomington. The thing I remember about those days was the "old man" had an antenna on about a 20 foot pole outside the front room window and he kept a pipe wrench on the window sill, when he wanted to change stations he would latch on to the pole with the wrench and turn that antenna until what he wanted came in. Whenever he was watching Channel 13 for some reason when a Ford would go down the street it would screw up the picture until it got by the house. Man, would he bitch, went to his grave hating Henry's pride and joy.
. Back in the 50s and 60s on a good night we could get CBS (WISH 8), NBC (WFBM 6) and WLWI (ABC 13) from Indianapolis and an Indpendent (WTTV 4) from Bloomington. The thing I remember about those days was the "old man" had an antenna on about a 20 foot pole outside the front room window and he kept a pipe wrench on the window sill, when he wanted to change stations he would latch on to the pole with the wrench and turn that antenna until what he wanted came in. Whenever he was watching Channel 13 for some reason when a Ford would go down the street it would screw up the picture until it got by the house. Man, would he bitch, went to his grave hating Henry's pride and joy.
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Now that I'm retired, obviously I have different health care insurance. I take 2 prescriptions. With my old insurance I didn't have to pay for either of them, now I do. It's not a huge amount but it led me to dig a little into the cost of prescription medications. I have been using Walgreens for the longest time. But what I found was that Walgreens price is 4.8 times more for one of my prescriptions and the other is 2.3 percent more compared to the lowest price pharmacy. If you pay for prescription medications you might want to have a look at trumprx and see if you can get a lower price.
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Actually I take just 2 prescriptions, Atorvastatin and Lisinopril. They cost me $6 each for 100 pills. Next year that will be nothing.That's ok. I probably take enough for the two of us.
God knows what Bobby takes. Maybe so much they count as a meal?
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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I remember this in the news too...
www.nbcnews.com
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
www.nbcnews.com
That is a misnomer. In the old days you subscribed to telephone service. That included the telephone line and one telephone. An extension cost $1 a month extra. So that $14,000 over 42 years was for the service not the leased telephone. There is no way they paid $28 a month for 42 years for a leased telephone.I remember this in the news too...
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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I haven't posted in almost 17 years. Over the air, sat, offline, anything-but-the-internet is still one of my avid pursuits. Been playing with offline tv viewing and offline web browsing. I have great appreciations for this site still being here. It's so hard to find public communities that haven't sold out to social media company.
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