Back in 1997, as a child I used to play with satellite analog dish antenna and Terrestrial antenna to catch more and more channels to watch Cartoons🤭I still remember all the past memories like a movie in my mind. Unlike other children my mother never forced me to study because at study time I used to start studying by myself without being forced to study. Thank you so much for uploading such a wonderful video of old days.
I loved my C band 10' dish before scrambling you could order a la carte but still it was nice for a while viewing everything for free. But who here remembers when that guy, i think he went by the name Captain Midnight, who blocked HBO's signal with a test band to protest HBO plans to scramble its signal? he did get caught pretty fast.. Still my favorite part of the big dish was its back haul feeds, they were at times better than watching regular programing. i remember watching back feed of the U.S. invasion of Panama and see feeds of reporters sunbathing, some in the nude in some hotels. Or when some Superbowl games that were getting boring and changing over to Japanese feeds and laughing how they were giving play by play descriptions. The 80''s was the decade of magic!
I was in the C-band Satellite TV business back in the early 80’s I met both Taylor Howard and Bob Copper at satellite TV conventions in Florida. I went to that 1986 satellite TV convention in Las Vegas. Scrambling put a lot of satellite dealers out of business. I remember the first time I saw a TV signal from a satellite dish I was hooked, I was still in the USAF at that time and I was the first and only guy in the entire USAF that had a satellite dish, it was mounted on a trailer behind the barracks that I lived in. I ran the cables into my room through a window. It was a 10 ft four piece fiberglass dish with an Amplica satellite receiver that I bought from long's electronics inc. near Birmingham Alabama. I used it as a demo system to sell satellite dishes. The trailer had four leveling jacks one on each Conner, all I had to do was to pull up to some ones house with the dish on the trailer put it in the spot where they wanted to put the dish and disconnect it from the truck level the four corners of the trailer and point the dish to the west and find satellite SATCOM F3 and lock it down. SATCOM F3 had 24 channels of TV, 12 on the even channel numbers and 12 on the odd channel numbers this was due to the horizontal and vertical polarization of the channels. If I remember correctley the even channel numbers came down from the satellite in the vertical polarization and the odd channel numbers came down in the horizontal polarization the receiver would change the polarization as you changed the channel. Satellite TV was the easiest thing that I have ever sold, people that lived out in the rural areas wanted better TV so badly that all I had to do was set it up and connect it to their TV on a Friday afternoon show them how to use it and when I came back to pick it up on Monday morning they were ready to buy one. They were that simple to sell. It was a technology that was in the right place at the right time. And now I am sitting in front of my computer watching this video on UA-cam over the internet using my Starlink Satellite internet system that delivers over 150 Mbps down and 15 to 20 Mbps up using LEO satellites 24 hours a day. I have to ask what will the next 40 years bring if we don’t destroy our selves first?
I'd like to learn more and see if I can hook something up as I can't afford the ever rising costs of Dish Network and others. I have the lowest tier of Dish Network and it's 47.00 per month now. So I need to do something.
Reading you comment on the early days of satellite tv gave me a melancholy, nostalgic emotion. I'm 44 years old. While you were helping, creating, selling satellite I was watching TV shows such as pinwheel, Simon in the land of chalk etc, on Nickelodeon ..and my parents were watching HBO "night at the movies" cable tv. Thank you!👍
Wow, i just saw them give away a muntz satellite on a mid 80s episode of the price is right, I thought 'wow that's neat, I wonder what sort of TV those offered back then' .. here I am, great info
I can still remember the early 1990s. The Deutsche Bundespost had launched a satellite for TV transmission. The disappointment was great when it was discovered in orbit that the securing clip for the solar cells had been forgotten to be removed and the satellite thus floated in orbit with the solar cells closed. Then a telephone satellite was converted into TV satellite. Only 5 TV programs were possible and the frequency band was split so that two LNB receivers had to be used. The oscillator frequency of the upper LNB was exactly the frequency of one of the lower TV programs so that it could not be received. Therefore it had to be replaced with another oscillator LNB. The Bundespost still sent up the reserve satellite, but the designated position was already occupied by the telephone-TV satellite, so the reserve was moved to a different position. Later the satellite disappeared from there, a control error. The Australians then spotted him and radioed him, and he was slowly pushed back into position... There were attempts with the analog HD standard, but hardly anyone had receivers for it... Later it was changed back to PAL... The French broadcast in SECAM, good that the TV switched the color standard...
I used to think that people with the big C-Band dishes in their backyard were rich lol. "You mean there's an HBO East and West?" "Let me get this straight..you can pick up pro wrestling...from Mongolia?" Seriously, this is a great history lesson
Same here, man. I was a poor country kid and would be on the school bus and see houses with those big C bands and think those people were rich. Just a pipe dream for me. lol I was so intrigued, though.
Bro I was a little kid in the early 90's and o grew up in rural America...My Aunt use to baby sit me and she had one of those dishes...The thing picked up every channel on Earth lol...Japan, England etc. When you put in coordinates it actually rotated.
it was sold for US$80000 in Saudi arabia during gulf war, first time I saw them I thought they were radars 🤣🤣🤣 we bought our first in 1994 WHEN I was 10 Echostar LT-730 C-Band with 4 LNB 👍
That was great and brought back a lot of memories. Installed my first dish in 1981 and installed hundreds of dishes in several states.... Mostly farmers, people in small towns and Sports Bars.... It was a great time in my life.....many different brands.... Sat Tech R5000, KLM Sky Eye IV, STS, Intersat, Luxor, Chaparral, General Instrument, Zenith, Macom, Lowrance, Birdview, Winegard, Tulsat, Scientific Atlanta, Panasonic, Norsat, Wilson, Drake, Regency, and more.... 70 mhz, Hardine, LNA, LNB, Pola Rotor 1 and 2, Co Rotor I could go on and on....and that was just some of the electronics...there was a bunch of dish manufactures...... Thanks for the Video!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty incredible how much technology has changed, now you have the entire satellite dish, receiver, and TV in your pocket in the form of a smart phone which can stream pretty much any channel from around the world in perfect digital clarity as long as you have a mobile data connection (cellular or WiFi). Growing up as a kid in the 70's and 80's, I'm still mesmerized at the incredible tech advances we have achieved in the past 30 to 40 years. Who would have thought that all this is even possible through the internet?! ;) And now with the upcoming StarLink low orbit satellite internet service virtually every corner of the globe will be interconnected.
I too have very fond memories of c-band from the 80’s and 90’s as a kid. The sheer amount of programming available back then was mind boggling. I recall live news feeds and the antics of reporters, network feeds that you could watch shows feed to affiliates with the promos and commercials before scheduled broadcast. Was always cool knowing what was going to happen on shows before my friends at school. I remember watching Batman in Spanish or Bonanza in Japanese and my dad and I laughing our butts off. I remember how easy and apparently much cheaper wrestling pay per views were on c-band, because we always hosted parties for the pay per view. My dad is gone now, but I still have that dish. I bought free to air equipment and watch unencrypted stuff in my shed with it now. I’ve seen comments about how there’s nothing good now, but I beg to differ. There are decent channels that I can’t get with my antenna or on my many streaming services. And while I am fortunate to have streaming and terrestrial antenna tv I know people that have access to neither, as where I live is considered an extreme reception area for receiving antenna tv. and only in the last 5 years did we, luckily, get highspeed fiber internet. There are many places in the United States that have limited options, and let’s face it the little dish guys are so over priced it’s nearly not even worth the cost. The happiest day I had was calling and cancelling my directv service once my fiber was installed. I now have more tv, that’s on demand, now then I ever had with dish network or directv. It actually reminds me of the 90’s spending so much time scouring Orbit, the satellite TV guide, to find something to watch. I find myself taking 10 or 15 minutes just looking at available shows and movies. It’s sad to see satellite TVs demise but I suspect it will remain in limited capacity as it has reliable, consistent capability to send and receive information. The only way I see it completely going away is once services like starlink become fully established and stable. But I’m glad I was able to experience satellite tv in its heyday, even when it was scrambled.
Remember Primestar? The late eighties. It was KU band & the dish was about 3ft. in diameter for my Mom. (Mother If you don't like it I'll have it picked up) She loved it! The West, Mountain & Eastern network affiliate feeds. Before DVR. She could watch Wheel of Fortune whenever she wanted. All Premium channels plus other channels for About $70.00 a month. DirecTV bought them out & then more money for less content.
@@lynngregory8082 we got primestar in 95 and it was pretty awesome until direct TV went crazy. And now att owns direct TV. I am trying to help my grandma drop DirecTV but she's set in her ways.😂
Got in on the hobby kind of late in the game. We already had early Dish Network (early enough that the equipment was HTS not echostar), but I was familiar with C-Band. My first dish was given to me by a family friend when i was around 16. It was a 10 foot, web style dish with a Huston tracker V. I absolutely loved it. I'm not that old now, but i still remember when Cartoon network went live, TechTV went live. Later when I had a place of my own, I used a GI 550i and later a 4DTV (920?) with the HD sidecar box. My pride and Joy was a 12 foot solid dish that took a ridiculous 6" mast (i had to order from a steel yard). Unfortunately it got damaged by equipment installing a new septic tank/field. One time I even found a pirated Video cypher unit in a Echostar c-band receiver I bought at a value village. I remember that it could decode the video, but not the audio. Luckily most stations still had mono carrier as a backup to VC-stereo. I later had a Pansat 330 for FTA which really was fun in the early days until that too went scrambled/encoded. I have a whole closet of stuff I'm about to throw out. I can't find anyone to take it. Found this video, made me nostalgic.
Loved our old dish back in the day. Used to watch reporters live pre-feed yelling at people off screen to fulfill whatever needs they had or complain about their assignment or hair or whatever and then you would see them go live and their personality changed ... oh and free movie channels galore.
Yeah I used to be able get into security cameras that pan around the news room. The news reporter should there and make funny noises exercising their voices. You see some really weird stuff sometimes. The good all days my last dish was and 90 cm with a motor to follow the Clark belt An old free to air days. Now everything so locked down
When the first episode of Star Trek TNG was about to air, I was told by a friend at a TV station when and where to get the satellite feed of the program. It was in the middle of the night, but rather than trust the programming features of my VCR, I stayed up to hit "record" manually. The next week, a group of friends and I met to watch the broadcast. I had the tape in the car but kept mum about it because I knew that the station didn't come in well where we were, and I had a plan. After about 15 minutes of the program had gone by and we couldn't see half of it due to weak signal, I excused myself, went out to the car, and got the tape. I walked back in, turned on the VCR without saying anything to anyone, popped in the tape, and hit "play." When the episode popped on the screen perfectly clear, I was the hero of the day. But then came the question, "Where did you get that?" I made them wait until the end of the show to tell them.
@@CanadianRetro I always loved the wildfeeds you found just by surfing around. Reporters live on the scene, unattended cameras and mics at events, etc.
i started with c-band installations ,then primestar , sky, then directv and dish network ,then time warner now spectrum, still connecting people together so many years has gone by and still love the hell out of it ....it runs thru my blood ,can't see myself doing anything different .......man i miss my c-band with ku band,,,,,................
Thanks so much for posting this. I wish I had come across it in 2014. It is a sad thing to see satellite TV slowly being supplanted by fiber delivery and 5G technology. I will always remember those early days of excitement with great happiness.
I agree 100% watching the start to a HBO or Cinemax movie knowing it was a blockbuster movie oh yeah !!!. That or watching music Videos on VH1 or MTV or MuchMusic or a weeks worth of a tv show. Great times
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I remember them days when all satellite signals were not yet scrambled. I lived in the Bahamas and both tv and radio was very limited. Each satellite had 24 channels or transponders. The receiver had to be set to the vertical or horizontal to get either the even or odd transponders. We got HBO, Showtime, TBS, WOR, WGN and many others. There were sub channels that carried radio. My favorite satellite radio radio station was an album rock station out of Edmonton Alberta Canada.
I was in Cayman watching my Atlanta NBC affiliate & TBS at the condo I stayed at off BUD (big ugly dish) Everyone had a pirate video cipher because they couldn't get US programming.
My grandfather was the first to own a satellite dish where he lived. I remember watching everything for free as a kid until they started video cypher scrambling. I just turned my 6 ft solid aluminum dish into a solar panel mount.
Wow I was so fortunate to have had a big aluminium net kinda dish TV in the late 80s all thnx to my dad.. Being in the interior part of India I was enjoying every show from the west of the 80s and the 90s
My parents had a satellite dish with a descrambler (bootlegged satellite). They've maintained some formed of bootlegged satellite/digital streaming for nearly 40 years now. Today there are "Chinese boxes" that are no different from the descrambler set ups. There will always be a "bootlegged" version of any movie/event viewing service .
I had a C Band Satellite Reciver back in the 90s....I remember the first Add for Home Satellite Reciver in a Radio Magazine in the late 70s.....Now You can get 1000s of Channels from All Over The World With Your Own Dish!!!!....It Was Fun....To Watch Stations In The Raw!!!...Real Live TV without Commercials!!!!...and getting TV around this big world!!!.....I had a Kenwood Satellite Reciver.... Got Everything One Way Or Another....got more when I upgraded!!!
This video was cool but the comments are incredible!! Love hearing the first hand accounts of what people liked to watch and what it was like having one of these in the 80s!!
Back in the 80s and 90s my grandpa had his C band satellite running strong and I used to love watching NASCAR races with him on the feeds, actually I enjoyed watching anything with grandpa. It was so cool/funny to listen to this commentators BS’n during commercial breaks about anything, you got the inside scoop right then and there. It’s still hooked up and but nobody watches it anymore, ever since I installed Dish Netwerk over two decades ago the C-band antenna became a expensive birdhouse. Does anybody else remember having to waiting for the dish to slowly turn to engage the next satellite? I swear sometimes that took forever! I could microwave a bag of popcorn before it was done, it wasn’t quite that slow😁
We had a 10' C band dish in the early 80s also. It was so awesome because the cable company in town did not have MTV and I was one of the very few kids in school that had it. I also remember the commentators in the commercial breaks also. I feel so fortunate that I was able to experience that in my life. Our dish was not so advanced though. Our dish had a hand crank on it and that's how you changed satellites. You had no way of knowing what satellite you were on. To change satellites it took three people. One to crank the dish, one to watch the tv and a middle man to stand in the garage. The tv watcher would yell at the one in the garage and the garage person would yell at the one cranking the dish.
I love the blackout Atlanta Falcons F B games (backhaul feeds) & Nascar without commercial breaks & Benny Parsons would say hey to Thunder Bay fans in areas not acceptable by cable. I loved stumbling on news feeds before they were broadcast. Watched the OJ Simpson trial even when it wasn't broadcast.
I was a personal friend of Robert Coleman who invented the practical LNA in the early days, Tay Howard Started Chaparal feed horns and Bob Cooper developed practical recievers and Robert Coleman also later created made and sold a very efficient LNB, And a 10 foot preforated steel dish, coast to coast tracking, Ku compatable, under the SpaceVision name, I worked for a company and sold over 300 big dish systems in Upper SC in the 1980s. I watched this to see if you Included a mention of Robert Coleman, you didnt say much. and He was a MAJOR contributor.
I bought a used dish & box for £10 when I was in high school in the late 90's. A 'Pace Apollo' box & Amstrad 80cm steel dish (which I sprayed black) with a Marconi blue cap LNB. Astra 19.2E was for Sky Analogue and German TV. NHK, Eurosport & MTV DE etc were clear so I watched bands like die Ärtze & Wir Sind Helden. I could descramble Videocrypt (poorly) and Systercrypt with my WinTV card and AMD K6/2 500Mhz PC. I later bought a Comag SL65 for £40 from Lidl for digital TV and a new LNB. Today it looks even better after a coat of Hammerite using a roller. I upgraded last year with a new LNB, Octagon SF8008 Enigma 2 UHD box and Diseqc switch to get Astra 28.2E as well from a Sky Minidish.
great stuff & lo-tech !! Astra/Eutelsat. used to watch Pro7, Rtl2, Sat1, Eurosport, Kabel1, Cnbc, i was dreaming of Sky not scrambled back then because the Stereo sound was unencrypted. we used to have Internet satellite access with EOL Europe on line, too 30X speed compared to Isdn !. and they never charged us ! Pro7 was exceptional for their respect. They aired the very first AC3 5.1 sound on the movie "Strange days" just before the Year 2000. that was a legendary moment !!
I had 2 neighbors many years ago who had those large satellite TV dishes in their backyards. I visited the one across the street & the guy who lived there shown us how he gets all kinds of programs, even from foreign sources. Sadly, he passed away in 1986 & his family had the dish dismantled before putting his house for sale, 2 years later the other neighbor tore his dish down before he & his family moved away.
Satellite is so much more interesting than cable. People 20 miles into the countyside wouldn't be able to get cable, but with satellite they could multiply their available tv viewing. There are so many more tv stations than the 1000 or so we have in Great Britain, in fact most of us could move our dish to other points in the nearby sky to watch North African, Eastern European, Scandinavian and Russian tv, plus a lot of re-routed satellite stations. That's why many of the more specialised satellite receivers have room for thousands of channel presets to use with automatic actuators.
Cool video, I had a neighbor back in the 80's that had a dish in his front yard. Every once in a while we could get a unscramble channel off his dish with our antenna.
So basically the giant satellite dish in Return Of The Jedi although was the shield generator but was to help promote home satellite television at the time.
I installed and serviced C and Ku Satellite systems for 15 years. it took a few years to totally, understand, build and programing the systems. It was so satisfying to build and program the reciecvers,with crystal clear pictures. I had all the kids with mine everyday watching programs like they have never seen before. All the television stations used them, but I found the feeds without commercials. So, they got to watch what goes on while everyone else watches commercials. it was the best education about science and space for me and mine. I miss my 10 ft Channel master, with Monterey 90 with a supertuner, and a chipped board. Also miss the about 30 SATELLITES and each has appro,32 channels endless information. We had some interesting customers, and most corner bars had one usually on their roof. I have a photo album of the crazy shit I did, with pleasure. I really miss all of it. If I could have one here I would, but I'll have to wait a few.
In the early early 90's I grew up in rural Ohio...No cable TV all we had was the rotar and antenna. But my aunt lived just up the hill from us had one of those big satellite dishes...Thing picked up just about every channel on Earth. You punched in coordinates and it actually rotated. I am actually thankful my childhood wasn't always satellite TV tho. Glad I got to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons...Once we got Primestar in early 95 I stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons because I could enjoy them anytime with Nickelodeon and Cartoon network.
I remember when we first got cable around 1990. I was blown away by there being two cartoon shows at the same time. 45 channels to choose from and they all came in crystal clear standard definition.
I built a 10-ft C-band dish back in 1983- using a LNA, 70-Mhz downconverter & receiver made by Drake- the ham radio company. In those days nothing was scrambled and it was fascinating all the "closed-circuit" stuff you could see. I spend more that watching that than the "entertainment" channels. Those great days are gone now that everything on the birds is digital and encrypted.
I could see NBC feeding the live unedited Johnny Carson show from LA to NY and all the things that went on during commercial breaks and such. Also news remotes being set up and famous people being interviewed and how they acted when they weren't being seen by the public.
I remember watching Lou Dobbs of CNN (Now fox business) smoking a cigarette live on the air when they were at a "commercial break" even though we could still see and hear him. Funnier than hell.
I hope they mention HBO Kid. I was Atari kid back then setting up reel to reel video recorders helping folks record soap operas. And using uhf antenna wire and two pieces of tin foil wrapped around wire to unscramble pay TV.
I had a official MTV license LOL and a 12 foot dish It was a Dark star if I remember it had the big actuator to tilt it had one of the descramblers from a guy that broke in on many broad casts to irritate the big media companys the guy was a really talented engineer !
Meanwhile in the UK, satellite TV maybe under threat. Sky, pretty much the only provider of satellite TV in the UK, has launched a version of their Sky Q service that is entirely dependent on broadband. I can't imagine that Sky (formerly owned by Rupert Murdoch and now owned by Comcast) will maintain their satellite TV service for much longer. This also puts Freesat under threat and the frequencies used for Freeview, our digital terrestrial TV service are more and more progressively being given over to 5G mobile services, so that is also under threat. It may well be that our TV services will become entirely internet dependent and thus open to government censorship.
@@parvezahmedjalil7310 "Government censoring exists already.. BBC" Wrong. The BBC is not a branch of the government and its not affected by censorship.
Lol same I was fortunate enough to have had this big aluminium dish in the late 80s all thnx to my dad I was watching all TV shows cartoons mtv and of course wwf lol
Check out the channel named “Thought Emporium”, he used an SDR and a satellite dish to make a crude radio telescope that imaged the “ring” of geostationary satellites.
I have an SDR that’s ironically based on a chipset for a DVB-T tuner, meaning that I could in theory with the right software receive digital tv transmissions.
My dad put one of them up in the 80s I loved it. We used it til the late 90s til they knocked them out every time you got it going. I mean we never payed for channels we knew a guy lol. You could still watch the streamers of new tv episodes a week before everyone else without the decipher box.
I’m looking for a video that showed a guy that recorded tons of hours of satellite tv. It would actually show between the scenes. I’m actually looking for a particular vid of the debates from the Clinton days. There was a guy complaining cause he couldn’t get tv time and was actually removed from a debate. You could here him yelling from the audience during the actual democratic debate he was supposed to be part of
The movie you're looking for is called "Spin" and I linked you to it on another comment in case it hid the link. If the link doesn't work, just search "spin movie 1995" or "spin movie satellite" it will come up. Great documentary.
Trip Fontaine I remember watching this the first time and was just blown away. Happen to ever come across how our commercial jets don’t really use fuel? It talked about the coils in the wings or turbines.
Good, unfortunately many people never knows this goodies still exist bro with the BIG DISH ANTENNA. I think is even better now we see the some channels now in full HD 1080i resolution than the analog era.
2:30 1975 INDIA WAS 1ST TO RECEIVE SATELLITE TV SIGNAL For Private Individuals 2:55 1975 Dec received India television signal in England 3:35 AIR AIR INDIA RADIO TV FROM INDIA
It's getting crazier and crazier. At first TV was something you bought, and you now have the ability to get the reception of local TV channels. That's it. Then TV channels decided to make money with ads. Then they decided to make more money by charging the consumers to watch the ads. People decided to get dishes to avoid paying for cable TV. TV companies got greedier and started scrambling the signals. Ads continued to increase, and product placement also became a thing. Then DTH came. And now you can't watch anything unless you pay first. And if you want additional channels, you pay extra, then there's the stupid active services which are expensive for no reason. Then they realised they can make the sports channels super expensive, while showing tons of ads every 2 minutes. Then there are dedicated channels just for ads. With all the "as seen on TV" stuff. And finally, the latest scam by TV companies is, Selling "ad free" shows on internet, so you pay for 1. Internet 2. The ad-free channels 3. The TV 4. The DTH monthly charges 5. And you watch tons of ads. What's the next step for greedy companies?
Oh Gott, ich habe noch die analogen Sat Receiver kennenlernen dürfen. Für damalige Verhältnisse gut, aber logischerweise konnten die digitalen SAT Receiver wesentlich mehr! Und als dann am 30. April 2012 das analoge SAT Signal abgeschaltet wurde, hatte man wenn man nicht umgerüstet hatte nur noch einen schwarzen Bildschirm. Ist das schon 10 Jahre her!
daltex81 7.5' Perfect10 dish on a 24" Von Wiese actuator. Drake ESR1724/DSR905 Sidecar/Captiveworks Ultima DVB receivers. From here it moves from right to left on the arc.
Mine too, FTA DVB receiver, 10 Foot mesh dish, C and KU LNB's Titanium ASC1 positioner. I also use a "Wave Frontier" 90 antenna which allows me to be tuned into 6 satellites at once without using a motor positioner. Works great but a PAIN to set up.
Yes, if the LNB mounted on the front of the dish is still functional, and if the dish is still aligned properly to a satellite (or if it has an motorized actuator and is still aligned to track the satellites in the sky properly) you can connect it to a digital FTA (free-to-air) receiver, which are readily available on eBay for affordable prices. I recommend finding an FTA receiver that features a "blind-search" mode, this will make finding unencrypted channels a bit easier once you have your dish aimed at a satellite.
Do u remember automan? Lol I was a small Indian kid who was fortunate enough to have had this big aluminium dish in my back yard in the late 80s all thnx to my dad and I was watching shows from all over the world 🌍😂
i didnt know satellite went back to the 80s. i seem to remember it being this crazy new thing in 99, but i was very little so thats probably why. i dont miss the issues satellite tv had, but i sure do miss tv being the way it used to be. now a days pretty much every show or documentary is garbage.
SO this is where The BBC World Service began [1985] right? Back then i was 7 or 8, remember my Dad & Uncle watching BBC new. I was there only for News Opening.
Now you can get yourself a satellite 🛰 📡 kit that can fit in a suitcase 🧳 I got one with the satellite finder in the lnb which we use for Camping holidays.
Yes, but they are largely relegated to hobbyists. There is no means to 'subscribe' (pay) for channels that you would be familiar with like on cable or DTV, though there is at least one place that can get you some channels with a subscription and a special receiver. But those other channels are encrypted (digital-scrambled) in a way that is not intended for the home market, even if you could pay for them.. There are plenty of free channels too, but probably not what you expect.
The reason why they got smaller is because the receiver sticking out at the front of the dish - the LNB - was developed so it became more sensitive, therefore the dish (which bounces the signals onto the LNB) could be smaller as the LNBs got more sensitive.
Those big dishes still work just like they always did they call it free to air satellite there is not much that’s good on it left but Company’s like dish and DIRECTV have bought it all up so there’s not a whole lot left to watch but they still will work I feel sorry for the people back in the 80s that spent $3000 or more and bought the whole system they though they were going to have TV satellite for the rest of their life and one day they woke up and it was gone and their money was to like all ways Politics and big money took it
After scrambling and after you had your MA/com or Videocipher installed you could subscribe to any channel for any length of time. Back then you weren't forced to buy packages of channels full of shit programs just to get the one you actually wanted. You could buy "a la carte" if you wanted. That's what I hate now, you have to buy all of these junk channels as a package. You really had more choice back with the BUD.
I just picked up a special box that allows 2 lines in set on of them to 103.7 west and the other to 70.0west and have a flash drive with unlock keys on it and route qn internet connection to thw box and it decodes the signal . 305 channel for free maybe its piracy maybe not but the signal is bombarded to earth i just decided to channel it into my tv.
it require a jet fuel to propelled the sat rocket to that altitude of zero gravity then the earth rotational force get the stationary satellite rotate along it course like the tornado swirling and pick any materials around itself.
Gore ever said he "invented" the Internet- but he DID sponsor the bill that open the Internet to general public use and this is what made the Internet what is today.
Back in 1997, as a child I used to play with satellite analog dish antenna and Terrestrial antenna to catch more and more channels to watch Cartoons🤭I still remember all the past memories like a movie in my mind. Unlike other children my mother never forced me to study because at study time I used to start studying by myself without being forced to study. Thank you so much for uploading such a wonderful video of old days.
I loved my C band 10' dish before scrambling you could order a la carte but still it was nice for a while viewing everything for free. But who here remembers when that guy, i think he went by the name Captain Midnight, who blocked HBO's signal with a test band to protest HBO plans to scramble its signal? he did get caught pretty fast.. Still my favorite part of the big dish was its back haul feeds, they were at times better than watching regular programing. i remember watching back feed of the U.S. invasion of Panama and see feeds of reporters sunbathing, some in the nude in some hotels. Or when some Superbowl games that were getting boring and changing over to Japanese feeds and laughing how they were giving play by play descriptions. The 80''s was the decade of magic!
I was in the C-band Satellite TV business back in the early 80’s I met both Taylor Howard and Bob Copper at satellite TV conventions in Florida. I went to that 1986 satellite TV convention in Las Vegas. Scrambling put a lot of satellite dealers out of business. I remember the first time I saw a TV signal from a satellite dish I was hooked, I was still in the USAF at that time and I was the first and only guy in the entire USAF that had a satellite dish, it was mounted on a trailer behind the barracks that I lived in. I ran the cables into my room through a window. It was a 10 ft four piece fiberglass dish with an Amplica satellite receiver that I bought from long's electronics inc. near Birmingham Alabama. I used it as a demo system to sell satellite dishes. The trailer had four leveling jacks one on each Conner, all I had to do was to pull up to some ones house with the dish on the trailer put it in the spot where they wanted to put the dish and disconnect it from the truck level the four corners of the trailer and point the dish to the west and find satellite SATCOM F3 and lock it down. SATCOM F3 had 24 channels of TV, 12 on the even channel numbers and 12 on the odd channel numbers this was due to the horizontal and vertical polarization of the channels. If I remember correctley the even channel numbers came down from the satellite in the vertical polarization and the odd channel numbers came down in the horizontal polarization the receiver would change the polarization as you changed the channel. Satellite TV was the easiest thing that I have ever sold, people that lived out in the rural areas wanted better TV so badly that all I had to do was set it up and connect it to their TV on a Friday afternoon show them how to use it and when I came back to pick it up on Monday morning they were ready to buy one. They were that simple to sell. It was a technology that was in the right place at the right time. And now I am sitting in front of my computer watching this video on UA-cam over the internet using my Starlink Satellite internet system that delivers over 150 Mbps down and 15 to 20 Mbps up using LEO satellites 24 hours a day. I have to ask what will the next 40 years bring if we don’t destroy our selves first?
What an amazing explanation from you.
I'd like to learn more and see if I can hook something up as I can't afford the ever rising costs of Dish Network and others. I have the lowest tier of Dish Network and it's 47.00 per month now. So I need to do something.
Reading you comment on the early days of satellite tv gave me a melancholy, nostalgic emotion. I'm 44 years old. While you were helping, creating, selling satellite I was watching TV shows such as pinwheel, Simon in the land of chalk etc, on Nickelodeon ..and my parents were watching HBO "night at the movies" cable tv. Thank you!👍
Wow, i just saw them give away a muntz satellite on a mid 80s episode of the price is right, I thought 'wow that's neat, I wonder what sort of TV those offered back then' .. here I am, great info
@@koolvidkids5519im teareyed what a joy it must have been
I can still remember the early 1990s. The Deutsche Bundespost had launched a satellite for TV transmission. The disappointment was great when it was discovered in orbit that the securing clip for the solar cells had been forgotten to be removed and the satellite thus floated in orbit with the solar cells closed.
Then a telephone satellite was converted into TV satellite. Only 5 TV programs were possible and the frequency band was split so that two LNB receivers had to be used. The oscillator frequency of the upper LNB was exactly the frequency of one of the lower TV programs so that it could not be received. Therefore it had to be replaced with another oscillator LNB.
The Bundespost still sent up the reserve satellite, but the designated position was already occupied by the telephone-TV satellite, so the reserve was moved to a different position. Later the satellite disappeared from there, a control error. The Australians then spotted him and radioed him, and he was slowly pushed back into position...
There were attempts with the analog HD standard, but hardly anyone had receivers for it...
Later it was changed back to PAL...
The French broadcast in SECAM, good that the TV switched the color standard...
I used to think that people with the big C-Band dishes in their backyard were rich lol. "You mean there's an HBO East and West?" "Let me get this straight..you can pick up pro wrestling...from Mongolia?" Seriously, this is a great history lesson
Those antenna systems DID give off that vibe. Either their rich or someone in that house is a real tech geek.
Same here, man. I was a poor country kid and would be on the school bus and see houses with those big C bands and think those people were rich. Just a pipe dream for me. lol I was so intrigued, though.
yea, I had a friend with a dish back in 86, and I was amazed.
Bro I was a little kid in the early 90's and o grew up in rural America...My Aunt use to baby sit me and she had one of those dishes...The thing picked up every channel on Earth lol...Japan, England etc. When you put in coordinates it actually rotated.
it was sold for US$80000 in Saudi arabia during gulf war, first time I saw them I thought they were radars 🤣🤣🤣
we bought our first in 1994 WHEN I was 10 Echostar LT-730 C-Band with 4 LNB 👍
That was great and brought back a lot of memories. Installed my first dish in 1981 and installed hundreds of dishes in several states....
Mostly farmers, people in small towns and Sports Bars.... It was a great time in my life.....many different brands.... Sat Tech R5000, KLM Sky Eye IV, STS, Intersat, Luxor, Chaparral, General Instrument, Zenith, Macom, Lowrance, Birdview, Winegard, Tulsat, Scientific Atlanta, Panasonic, Norsat, Wilson, Drake, Regency, and more.... 70 mhz, Hardine, LNA, LNB, Pola Rotor 1 and 2, Co Rotor I could go on and on....and that was just some of the electronics...there was a bunch of dish manufactures...... Thanks for the Video!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty incredible how much technology has changed, now you have the entire satellite dish, receiver, and TV in your pocket in the form of a smart phone which can stream pretty much any channel from around the world in perfect digital clarity as long as you have a mobile data connection (cellular or WiFi). Growing up as a kid in the 70's and 80's, I'm still mesmerized at the incredible tech advances we have achieved in the past 30 to 40 years. Who would have thought that all this is even possible through the internet?! ;) And now with the upcoming StarLink low orbit satellite internet service virtually every corner of the globe will be interconnected.
I have a SAMI 7.5ft and ODOM 10ft dish. Several dish manufacturers were based in Arkansas.
@@jbetnar Used lots of those dishes....... I really liked how tight the SAMI dish mesh was attached....
Yes they were tight...... just tap on one or slightly on concrete and no rattle.
I remember in 1983 visiting my aunt in Oregon she had a dish. When I moved there in 1986 I had one and used it until I moved away in 2001.
I too have very fond memories of c-band from the 80’s and 90’s as a kid. The sheer amount of programming available back then was mind boggling. I recall live news feeds and the antics of reporters, network feeds that you could watch shows feed to affiliates with the promos and commercials before scheduled broadcast. Was always cool knowing what was going to happen on shows before my friends at school. I remember watching Batman in Spanish or Bonanza in Japanese and my dad and I laughing our butts off. I remember how easy and apparently much cheaper wrestling pay per views were on c-band, because we always hosted parties for the pay per view.
My dad is gone now, but I still have that dish. I bought free to air equipment and watch unencrypted stuff in my shed with it now. I’ve seen comments about how there’s nothing good now, but I beg to differ. There are decent channels that I can’t get with my antenna or on my many streaming services. And while I am fortunate to have streaming and terrestrial antenna tv I know people that have access to neither, as where I live is considered an extreme reception area for receiving antenna tv. and only in the last 5 years did we, luckily, get highspeed fiber internet. There are many places in the United States that have limited options, and let’s face it the little dish guys are so over priced it’s nearly not even worth the cost.
The happiest day I had was calling and cancelling my directv service once my fiber was installed. I now have more tv, that’s on demand, now then I ever had with dish network or directv. It actually reminds me of the 90’s spending so much time scouring Orbit, the satellite TV guide, to find something to watch. I find myself taking 10 or 15 minutes just looking at available shows and movies.
It’s sad to see satellite TVs demise but I suspect it will remain in limited capacity as it has reliable, consistent capability to send and receive information. The only way I see it completely going away is once services like starlink become fully established and stable. But I’m glad I was able to experience satellite tv in its heyday, even when it was scrambled.
Remember Primestar? The late eighties.
It was KU band & the dish was about 3ft. in diameter for my Mom. (Mother If you don't like it I'll have it picked up) She loved it! The West, Mountain & Eastern network affiliate feeds. Before DVR. She could watch Wheel of Fortune whenever she wanted. All Premium channels plus other channels for About $70.00 a month. DirecTV bought them out & then more money for less content.
@@lynngregory8082 we got primestar in 95 and it was pretty awesome until direct TV went crazy. And now att owns direct TV. I am trying to help my grandma drop DirecTV but she's set in her ways.😂
Got in on the hobby kind of late in the game. We already had early Dish Network (early enough that the equipment was HTS not echostar), but I was familiar with C-Band. My first dish was given to me by a family friend when i was around 16. It was a 10 foot, web style dish with a Huston tracker V. I absolutely loved it. I'm not that old now, but i still remember when Cartoon network went live, TechTV went live. Later when I had a place of my own, I used a GI 550i and later a 4DTV (920?) with the HD sidecar box. My pride and Joy was a 12 foot solid dish that took a ridiculous 6" mast (i had to order from a steel yard). Unfortunately it got damaged by equipment installing a new septic tank/field. One time I even found a pirated Video cypher unit in a Echostar c-band receiver I bought at a value village. I remember that it could decode the video, but not the audio. Luckily most stations still had mono carrier as a backup to VC-stereo. I later had a Pansat 330 for FTA which really was fun in the early days until that too went scrambled/encoded. I have a whole closet of stuff I'm about to throw out. I can't find anyone to take it. Found this video, made me nostalgic.
Loved our old dish back in the day. Used to watch reporters live pre-feed yelling at people off screen to fulfill whatever needs they had or complain about their assignment or hair or whatever and then you would see them go live and their personality changed ... oh and free movie channels galore.
Those live news feeds were funny.
Yeah I used to be able get into security cameras that pan around the news room. The news reporter should there and make funny noises exercising their voices. You see some really weird stuff sometimes. The good all days my last dish was and 90 cm with a motor to follow the Clark belt An old free to air days. Now everything so locked down
When the first episode of Star Trek TNG was about to air, I was told by a friend at a TV station when and where to get the satellite feed of the program. It was in the middle of the night, but rather than trust the programming features of my VCR, I stayed up to hit "record" manually. The next week, a group of friends and I met to watch the broadcast. I had the tape in the car but kept mum about it because I knew that the station didn't come in well where we were, and I had a plan. After about 15 minutes of the program had gone by and we couldn't see half of it due to weak signal, I excused myself, went out to the car, and got the tape. I walked back in, turned on the VCR without saying anything to anyone, popped in the tape, and hit "play." When the episode popped on the screen perfectly clear, I was the hero of the day. But then came the question, "Where did you get that?" I made them wait until the end of the show to tell them.
@@ScottGrammer That is a pure champion move right there. It was amazing what those old dishes could find back then.
@@CanadianRetro I always loved the wildfeeds you found just by surfing around. Reporters live on the scene, unattended cameras and mics at events, etc.
The memories of watching C-Band satellite at my Grandma's House in the 90's as a kid.
This is how innovation happens! When ideas are shared and talked about. Not hidden behind patterns and corporations
Thank You!! That's Real Progress..
i started with c-band installations ,then primestar , sky, then directv and dish network ,then time warner now spectrum, still connecting people together so many years has gone by and still love the hell out of it ....it runs thru my blood ,can't see myself doing anything different .......man i miss my c-band with ku band,,,,,................
Thanks so much for posting this. I wish I had come across it in 2014. It is a sad thing to see satellite TV slowly being supplanted by fiber delivery and 5G technology. I will always remember those early days of excitement with great happiness.
I agree 100% watching the start to a HBO or Cinemax movie knowing it was a blockbuster movie oh yeah !!!. That or watching music Videos on VH1 or MTV or MuchMusic or a weeks worth of a tv show. Great times
The people installing 5g will look back 40 years from now with the same fondness of the by gone Era.
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I love how the guy casually mentions his moon bounce amateur radio days lol. People had more free time back then.
I remember them days when all satellite signals were not yet scrambled. I lived in the Bahamas and both tv and radio was very limited. Each satellite had 24 channels or transponders. The receiver had to be set to the vertical or horizontal to get either the even or odd transponders. We got HBO, Showtime, TBS, WOR, WGN and many others. There were sub channels that carried radio. My favorite satellite radio radio station was an album rock station out of Edmonton Alberta Canada.
I was in Cayman watching my Atlanta NBC affiliate & TBS at the condo I stayed at off BUD (big ugly dish) Everyone had a pirate video cipher because they couldn't get US programming.
My grandfather was the first to own a satellite dish where he lived. I remember watching everything for free as a kid until they started video cypher scrambling. I just turned my 6 ft solid aluminum dish into a solar panel mount.
A couple of my uncles had these. Amazing tech when the dish used to move in order to find a satellite for another region. Great memories.
Wow I was so fortunate to have had a big aluminium net kinda dish TV in the late 80s all thnx to my dad.. Being in the interior part of India I was enjoying every show from the west of the 80s and the 90s
i was born in 2005 an still use these old satellite dishes these things pick up every single channel across the world
My parents had a satellite dish with a descrambler (bootlegged satellite). They've maintained some formed of bootlegged satellite/digital streaming for nearly 40 years now. Today there are "Chinese boxes" that are no different from the descrambler set ups. There will always be a "bootlegged" version of any movie/event viewing service .
David, This was fun to watch. How far we've come!!
I had a C Band Satellite Reciver back in the 90s....I remember the first Add for Home Satellite Reciver in a Radio Magazine in the late 70s.....Now You can get 1000s of Channels from All Over The World With Your Own Dish!!!!....It Was Fun....To Watch Stations In The Raw!!!...Real Live TV without Commercials!!!!...and getting TV around this big world!!!.....I had a Kenwood Satellite Reciver.... Got Everything One Way Or Another....got more when I upgraded!!!
Now I have a better understanding of satellite tv.
This video was cool but the comments are incredible!! Love hearing the first hand accounts of what people liked to watch and what it was like having one of these in the 80s!!
My friend had a satelite in the late 80s. We thought it was so cool seeing xxx channels at 12 years old. Lol
Back in the 80s and 90s my grandpa had his C band satellite running strong and I used to love watching NASCAR races with him on the feeds, actually I enjoyed watching anything with grandpa. It was so cool/funny to listen to this commentators BS’n during commercial breaks about anything, you got the inside scoop right then and there. It’s still hooked up and but nobody watches it anymore, ever since I installed Dish Netwerk over two decades ago the C-band antenna became a expensive birdhouse. Does anybody else remember having to waiting for the dish to slowly turn to engage the next satellite? I swear sometimes that took forever! I could microwave a bag of popcorn before it was done, it wasn’t quite that slow😁
We had a 10' C band dish in the early 80s also. It was so awesome because the cable company in town did not have MTV and I was one of the very few kids in school that had it. I also remember the commentators in the commercial breaks also. I feel so fortunate that I was able to experience that in my life. Our dish was not so advanced though. Our dish had a hand crank on it and that's how you changed satellites. You had no way of knowing what satellite you were on. To change satellites it took three people. One to crank the dish, one to watch the tv and a middle man to stand in the garage. The tv watcher would yell at the one in the garage and the garage person would yell at the one cranking the dish.
I love the blackout Atlanta Falcons F B games (backhaul feeds) & Nascar without commercial breaks & Benny Parsons would say hey to Thunder Bay fans in areas not acceptable by cable. I loved stumbling on news feeds before they were broadcast. Watched the OJ Simpson trial even when it wasn't broadcast.
I was a personal friend of Robert Coleman who invented the practical LNA in the early days, Tay Howard Started Chaparal feed horns and Bob Cooper developed practical recievers and Robert Coleman also later created made and sold a very efficient LNB, And a 10 foot preforated steel dish, coast to coast tracking, Ku compatable, under the SpaceVision name, I worked for a company and sold over 300 big dish systems in Upper SC in the 1980s. I watched this to see if you Included a mention of Robert Coleman, you didnt say much. and He was a MAJOR contributor.
I bought a used dish & box for £10 when I was in high school in the late 90's. A 'Pace Apollo' box & Amstrad 80cm steel dish (which I sprayed black) with a Marconi blue cap LNB. Astra 19.2E was for Sky Analogue and German TV. NHK, Eurosport & MTV DE etc were clear so I watched bands like die Ärtze & Wir Sind Helden. I could descramble Videocrypt (poorly) and Systercrypt with my WinTV card and AMD K6/2 500Mhz PC. I later bought a Comag SL65 for £40 from Lidl for digital TV and a new LNB. Today it looks even better after a coat of Hammerite using a roller. I upgraded last year with a new LNB, Octagon SF8008 Enigma 2 UHD box and Diseqc switch to get Astra 28.2E as well from a Sky Minidish.
great stuff & lo-tech !! Astra/Eutelsat. used to watch Pro7, Rtl2, Sat1, Eurosport, Kabel1, Cnbc, i was dreaming of Sky not scrambled back then because the Stereo sound was unencrypted. we used to have Internet satellite access with EOL Europe on line, too 30X speed compared to Isdn !. and they never charged us ! Pro7 was exceptional for their respect. They aired the very first AC3 5.1 sound on the movie "Strange days" just before the Year 2000. that was a legendary moment !!
Aluminum dish
I had 2 neighbors many years ago who had those large satellite TV dishes in their backyards. I visited the one across the street & the guy who lived there shown us how he gets all kinds of programs, even from foreign sources.
Sadly, he passed away in 1986 & his family had the dish dismantled before putting his house for sale, 2 years later the other neighbor tore his dish down before he & his family moved away.
l built 10 feet dish with 300 pounds of steel, to see panansat satellite in the 90s on peru location, nice times .... !!!!
Satellite is so much more interesting than cable. People 20 miles into the countyside wouldn't be able to get cable, but with satellite they could multiply their available tv viewing. There are so many more tv stations than the 1000 or so we have in Great Britain, in fact most of us could move our dish to other points in the nearby sky to watch North African, Eastern European, Scandinavian and Russian tv, plus a lot of re-routed satellite stations. That's why many of the more specialised satellite receivers have room for thousands of channel presets to use with automatic actuators.
Cool video, I had a neighbor back in the 80's that had a dish in his front yard. Every once in a while we could get a unscramble channel off his dish with our antenna.
Lol, no.
So basically the giant satellite dish in Return Of The Jedi although was the shield generator but was to help promote home satellite television at the time.
I installed and serviced C and Ku Satellite systems for 15 years. it took a few years to totally, understand, build and programing the systems. It was so satisfying to build and program the reciecvers,with crystal clear pictures. I had all the kids with mine everyday watching programs like they have never seen before. All the television stations used them, but I found the feeds without commercials. So, they got to watch what goes on while everyone else watches commercials. it was the best education about science and space for me and mine. I miss my 10 ft Channel master, with Monterey 90 with a supertuner, and a chipped board. Also miss the about 30 SATELLITES and each has appro,32 channels endless information. We had some interesting customers, and most corner bars had one usually on their roof. I have a photo album of the crazy shit I did, with pleasure. I really miss all of it. If I could have one here I would, but I'll have to wait a few.
In the early early 90's I grew up in rural Ohio...No cable TV all we had was the rotar and antenna. But my aunt lived just up the hill from us had one of those big satellite dishes...Thing picked up just about every channel on Earth. You punched in coordinates and it actually rotated. I am actually thankful my childhood wasn't always satellite TV tho. Glad I got to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons...Once we got Primestar in early 95 I stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons because I could enjoy them anytime with Nickelodeon and Cartoon network.
I remember when we first got cable around 1990. I was blown away by there being two cartoon shows at the same time. 45 channels to choose from and they all came in crystal clear standard definition.
India Is proud moment for that....I am a satellite lover from India...
I built a 10-ft C-band dish back in 1983- using a LNA, 70-Mhz downconverter & receiver made by Drake- the ham radio company. In those days nothing was scrambled and it was fascinating all the "closed-circuit" stuff you could see. I spend more that watching that than the "entertainment" channels. Those great days are gone now that everything on the birds is digital and encrypted.
Ohhh man, that's awesome! What do you remember seeing?
I could see NBC feeding the live unedited Johnny Carson show from LA to NY and all the things that went on during commercial breaks and such. Also news remotes being set up and famous people being interviewed and how they acted when they weren't being seen by the public.
AMAZING! LMAO Nooooo way they'd like that going on!
I remember watching Lou Dobbs of CNN (Now fox business) smoking a cigarette live on the air when they were at a "commercial break" even though we could still see and hear him. Funnier than hell.
I use to work at a TV station and can tell you that many people are one way on TV and quite different when off.
I hope they mention HBO Kid. I was Atari kid back then setting up reel to reel video recorders helping folks record soap operas. And using uhf antenna wire and two pieces of tin foil wrapped around wire to unscramble pay TV.
Who remembers ONTV cable back in the 80s I was ten in 1980
Miss the 80s
80s rule man
I had a official MTV license LOL and a 12 foot dish It was a Dark star if I remember it had the big actuator to tilt it had one of the descramblers from a guy that broke in on many broad casts to irritate the big media companys the guy was a really talented engineer !
Meanwhile in the UK, satellite TV maybe under threat. Sky, pretty much the only provider of satellite TV in the UK, has launched a version of their Sky Q service that is entirely dependent on broadband. I can't imagine that Sky (formerly owned by Rupert Murdoch and now owned by Comcast) will maintain their satellite TV service for much longer. This also puts Freesat under threat and the frequencies used for Freeview, our digital terrestrial TV service are more and more progressively being given over to 5G mobile services, so that is also under threat.
It may well be that our TV services will become entirely internet dependent and thus open to government censorship.
Government censoring exists already.. BBC
@@parvezahmedjalil7310 "Government censoring exists already.. BBC"
Wrong. The BBC is not a branch of the government and its not affected by censorship.
around april 1988 .if u had a satellite Dish .those Big Dishes in your backyard. Then. U Can Order the Encore Presentation Of Wrestlemania 4
Lol same I was fortunate enough to have had this big aluminium dish in the late 80s all thnx to my dad I was watching all TV shows cartoons mtv and of course wwf lol
Check out the channel named “Thought Emporium”, he used an SDR and a satellite dish to make a crude radio telescope that imaged the “ring” of geostationary satellites.
I have an SDR that’s ironically based on a chipset for a DVB-T tuner, meaning that I could in theory with the right software receive digital tv transmissions.
mr nathan kayle. refresh the lost memories. really awesome time that was
Long live sat TV!
My dad put one of them up in the 80s I loved it. We used it til the late 90s til they knocked them out every time you got it going. I mean we never payed for channels we knew a guy lol. You could still watch the streamers of new tv episodes a week before everyone else without the decipher box.
would be great to figure if anyone outside Japan, got Nintendo SATELLAVIEW system back in 1996-1999 !
Ali/Elvis were HUGE deals in the 70s
They sure were "dish"ing it out back then. ;)
I’m looking for a video that showed a guy that recorded tons of hours of satellite tv. It would actually show between the scenes. I’m actually looking for a particular vid of the debates from the Clinton days. There was a guy complaining cause he couldn’t get tv time and was actually removed from a debate. You could here him yelling from the audience during the actual democratic debate he was supposed to be part of
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The movie you're looking for is called "Spin" and I linked you to it on another comment in case it hid the link. If the link doesn't work, just search "spin movie 1995" or "spin movie satellite" it will come up. Great documentary.
Trip Fontaine thank you so much. This alone is def something everyone needs to see!!!
@@sonnyanaya657 you're welcome, and I agree - I've shown and recommended it to many people over the years. Very eye opening.
Trip Fontaine I remember watching this the first time and was just blown away. Happen to ever come across how our commercial jets don’t really use fuel? It talked about the coils in the wings or turbines.
Lol. The guy who invented the internet makes a cameo at 12:20
Aun tengo mi antena parabolica de 5 mts de malla/aluminio con un LNBF digital y la tendre por siempre........
I have a 10ft dish and still watch 75% of cable channels for FREE! MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, CMT, USA, SYFY, HGTV, etc!
Good, unfortunately many people never knows this goodies still exist bro with the BIG DISH ANTENNA. I think is even better now we see the some channels now in full HD 1080i resolution than the analog era.
Do you ever see any unscrambled live sports?
@@BudFuddlackeryes. Lots of sports events are unscrambled but the primetime events are all scrambled.
2:30 1975 INDIA WAS 1ST TO RECEIVE SATELLITE TV SIGNAL For Private Individuals
2:55 1975 Dec received India television signal in England
3:35 AIR AIR INDIA RADIO TV FROM INDIA
It's getting crazier and crazier.
At first TV was something you bought, and you now have the ability to get the reception of local TV channels. That's it.
Then TV channels decided to make money with ads.
Then they decided to make more money by charging the consumers to watch the ads.
People decided to get dishes to avoid paying for cable TV.
TV companies got greedier and started scrambling the signals.
Ads continued to increase, and product placement also became a thing.
Then DTH came. And now you can't watch anything unless you pay first. And if you want additional channels, you pay extra, then there's the stupid active services which are expensive for no reason.
Then they realised they can make the sports channels super expensive, while showing tons of ads every 2 minutes.
Then there are dedicated channels just for ads. With all the "as seen on TV" stuff.
And finally, the latest scam by TV companies is,
Selling "ad free" shows on internet, so you pay for
1. Internet
2. The ad-free channels
3. The TV
4. The DTH monthly charges
5. And you watch tons of ads.
What's the next step for greedy companies?
Oh Gott, ich habe noch die analogen Sat Receiver kennenlernen dürfen. Für damalige Verhältnisse gut, aber logischerweise konnten die digitalen SAT Receiver wesentlich mehr! Und als dann am 30. April 2012 das analoge SAT Signal abgeschaltet wurde, hatte man wenn man nicht umgerüstet hatte nur noch einen schwarzen Bildschirm. Ist das schon 10 Jahre her!
Nice bit of Americana, my BUD is still up and running !
Man that is awesome! What kind of dish and receiver do you have?
Does it still move from left to right
daltex81
7.5' Perfect10 dish on a 24" Von Wiese actuator. Drake ESR1724/DSR905 Sidecar/Captiveworks Ultima DVB receivers.
From here it moves from right to left on the arc.
Mine too, FTA DVB receiver, 10 Foot mesh dish, C and KU LNB's Titanium ASC1 positioner. I also use a "Wave Frontier" 90 antenna which allows me to be tuned into 6 satellites at once without using a motor positioner. Works great but a PAIN to set up.
I wonder if you could still hook up one of those big dishes if you had it in your backyard.
Yes, if the LNB mounted on the front of the dish is still functional, and if the dish is still aligned properly to a satellite (or if it has an motorized actuator and is still aligned to track the satellites in the sky properly) you can connect it to a digital FTA (free-to-air) receiver, which are readily available on eBay for affordable prices.
I recommend finding an FTA receiver that features a "blind-search" mode, this will make finding unencrypted channels a bit easier once you have your dish aimed at a satellite.
কত চড়াই-উতরাই পার করে সেটেলাইট টিভি চালু হয়েছে। যারা এর পেছনে হাল না ছেড়ে কাজ করে গেছে তাদের জানাই লাল সালাম❤️ তারাই হিরো। 🇧🇩
2 am checking each satellite with my brother in law's dish setup good times
I'd like to learn more about what I need to get, where to get and how to hook it up.
Watching this over a Starlink connection…
thanks for this clip!..very nice!...have a nice 204 and all best wishes to all sat and retro freaks around the world..! your krautrockt!er..🙂
Great stuff! Thank you!
I watched a wedding of an Italian American couple put on the bird and the “I love You Grandpa” comments that followed.
When I had C-band 1990s you could order channels ala carte. Porn was cheap.
Do u remember automan? Lol I was a small Indian kid who was fortunate enough to have had this big aluminium dish in my back yard in the late 80s all thnx to my dad and I was watching shows from all over the world 🌍😂
It's like finding life signal up in the sky or tv channel... It's the some feeling... At least for a bit of moment 😊
Thanks to telstar. And the tornadoes music.
i didnt know satellite went back to the 80s. i seem to remember it being this crazy new thing in 99, but i was very little so thats probably why. i dont miss the issues satellite tv had, but i sure do miss tv being the way it used to be. now a days pretty much every show or documentary is garbage.
I was a satellite kid. Loud as shit changing E-3 to C-7.....my dad coming down the hall telling me to leave it on one....The 1980s
SO this is where The BBC World Service began [1985] right? Back then i was 7 or 8, remember my Dad & Uncle watching BBC new. I was there only for News Opening.
Frem regular cable to watching a cban satellite 📡 for the 1st time in the 80's it was like going to the future to now watching direc tv
This is exactly what I wanted to know
Now you can get yourself a satellite 🛰 📡 kit that can fit in a suitcase 🧳 I got one with the satellite finder in the lnb which we use for Camping holidays.
Lol. I still have a massive 10 foot dish but I use it for other things now instead of tv.
Other things ? Like what?
do those big dishes still work now days ?
Yes, but they are largely relegated to hobbyists. There is no means to 'subscribe' (pay) for channels that you would be familiar with like on cable or DTV, though there is at least one place that can get you some channels with a subscription and a special receiver. But those other channels are encrypted (digital-scrambled) in a way that is not intended for the home market, even if you could pay for them.. There are plenty of free channels too, but probably not what you expect.
I remember the analog sattelite channels
I would like to experiment with Satellite TV as well as Encryption
And now, we use it for internet.. and it's getting better.
Some local building codes were not friendly to dishes.
The host looks like that popular actor
Woah the old ones were big 😳
The reason why they got smaller is because the receiver sticking out at the front of the dish - the LNB - was developed so it became more sensitive, therefore the dish (which bounces the signals onto the LNB) could be smaller as the LNBs got more sensitive.
Amazing now everything is steam to your phone
we sold these in the newbrunswick area in the 1980s
Those big dishes still work just like they always did they call it free to air satellite there is not much that’s good on it left but Company’s like dish and DIRECTV have bought it all up so there’s not a whole lot left to watch but they still will work I feel sorry for the people back in the 80s that spent $3000 or more and bought the whole system they though they were going to have TV satellite for the rest of their life and one day they woke up and it was gone and their money was to like all ways Politics and big money took it
I didn't know HBO first Programming was a Boxing Match.. 😲 WoW!! 1975...📡
Nostalgic memorirs
This is the most 90s video from 2008 I've ever seen.
After scrambling and after you had your MA/com or Videocipher installed you could subscribe to any channel for any length of time. Back then you weren't forced to buy packages of channels full of shit programs just to get the one you actually wanted. You could buy "a la carte" if you wanted. That's what I hate now, you have to buy all of these junk channels as a package. You really had more choice back with the BUD.
I just picked up a special box that allows 2 lines in set on of them to 103.7 west and the other to 70.0west and have a flash drive with unlock keys on it and route qn internet connection to thw box and it decodes the signal . 305 channel for free maybe its piracy maybe not but the signal is bombarded to earth i just decided to channel it into my tv.
Actually very close friends with the inventor of the black box back in the '80s was a way to pirate hbo
Uhhh, is that Elon @ 2:05 😄
I have an Arab customer who has around 20 satellite dishes in his back garden. Haven't found out why yet though.
Love analog satellite reciver and dish antenna system then digital
Legends waching 2022
I remember just moving the dish slightly out of place and watching hbo lol. before they encrypted it.
But how satellite reached at exactely 36000km above earth
& Stop there & rotates around earth?
it require a jet fuel to propelled the sat rocket to that altitude of zero gravity then the earth rotational force get the stationary satellite rotate along it course like the tornado swirling and pick any materials around itself.
Before the cat and mouse game of encryption and hacking
At 11:59 wait, didn't Al Gore "invent the internet"?? Nahh, he invented satellite TV! ha-ha
Gore ever said he "invented" the Internet- but he DID sponsor the bill that open the Internet to general public use and this is what made the Internet what is today.