USALS Motors: The Device from Hell

[Mr Tony]

That looks like what I see at the apartment compounds back in the day. Lots of Directv or Dish setups on the roof going to different apartments
Not to be a smart ass but if you're going to post a pic like that maybe post one of FTA dishes and not Directv and Dish

 

[Mr Tony]

I think about when I had FTA back when I owned my house and it kinda looked like that at various times. I had something like 5 FTA dishes on the roof, a couple antennas and 4 or 5 dishes on the deck. Seemed like every week something was switched out
Also had a C-Band dish that I wheeled out of the garage for Alaska Hockey on (at the time) 137W.

Here are some pics from back in the day with 2 C-Band dishes, a torrodial (god remember when those were the thing) and receivers I received from a company. Analog C-Band receivers and receivers that could do 4:2:2 back in the day when it was SD. HD was rare. That would have been early 2000s

 

[Mr Tony]

oh and the (infamous for me) Hispasat dish mounted on a antenna mast on the roof (only way to see it). Yes it worked!

Top left antenna was aimed at Minneapolis and used during the summer to pick up other stuff
Bottom antenna was Minneapolis 24/7
Right antenna was aimed for KEYC Mankato some 75 miles away back when it was just CBS (now I live in Mankato and they have more networks). It was aimed for the extra football game and Bandwagon...the POLKA show that has been on since KEYC inception in 1960

 

[cyberham]

I remember from that time your rolling your dish out of the garage for weekends. I think I thought..."You can do that!?". You don't need a vertical pipe in concrete?

In later years, I tried it at my company office with my brand new Fortec 1.2m. I had a rolling test equipment cart too.



You were a bad influence. I learned while in Nova Scotia that 15W could be had by moving the dish to the far east.


Yes, motors can do a lot. Even catch 3W C-band. And without a pole in concrete.