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?

 

[iBoston]

When i was a kid, i used to salivate envisioning me having a Cband dish. It wasn't until about 1995, I installed my first Cband dish, and i remember it took me about 2 weeks to get that dish aligned properly.. This was before internet, and i had to call and talk with people on the phone about advice on how to properly tune the dish. I can't remember the receiver, but it had a UHF remote. I had the satellite receiver in the living room, but i ported it to two TV's, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. It was so nice being able to control the receiver with the remote in the bedroom about 40 feet from the living room. I remember watching Rosanne feeds where it would air the entire week in succession. Nice nostalgia.

 

[navychop]

I remember watching Rosanne feeds

I'd wipe THAT memory ASAP!