Memories

[Scott Greczkowski]

View: https://youtu.be/2B6vCcmvnJc?si=i-ewdyqeAwBWEPgR

 

[dishstaller]

That's wild.

 

[reubenray]

I had a BUD in the 80's before the little small dishes started showing up. The signals were unsrambled and then I had to get a monthly code.

 

[WhiteBeard]

I miss the good old days. The pizza dishes and DMCA screwed everything up.

 

[dfergie]

Hand crank 10' fiberglass dish with the satellites marked with pencil on the jack, LNA ... (after a while I'd have to move my pencil marks)

 

[freddylq]

View: https://youtu.be/2B6vCcmvnJc?si=i-ewdyqeAwBWEPgR

I used Turner Vision for my subscriptions and I remember the sparklies!

 

[dishstaller]

This is an ad a local satellite company ran back in the day. The guy doing the talking was Red Holland. He was a serious cut-up and made this guy a fortune with these looney ads.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTxaPkh21E

 

[reubenray]

Hand crank 10' fiberglass dish with the satellites marked with pencil on the jack, LNA ... (after a while I'd have to move my pencil marks)

I had it made then I had a power actuator. I just had to push the buttons. I lived in a mobile home when I first got the BUD and when I built a new house on the same lot I wired everything from the BUD to the house. I was the envy of the neighborhood.

 

[FTA4PA]

View: https://youtu.be/2B6vCcmvnJc?si=i-ewdyqeAwBWEPgR

Only 28 years ago and look how different things are now.

 

[dfergie]

I forgot about the tv antenna rotator to change polarity…

 

[telstar_1]

I had a BUD in the 80's before the little small dishes started showing up. The signals were unsrambled and then I had to get a monthly code.

You mean you were pirating the VCII and entering "Wizard numbers" every month after key change? GI finally resorted to changing out the keys twice as often, then even more often, down to just hours, making it mostly untenable?