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In my case it's Yellow-jackets!
About a week ago, I Noticed a varying signal on G-19. when I started to climb a ladder to take a look at the feed horn assembly on the old Channel Master 10 footer when I noticed them comming and going. Tapped on the feedhorn cover with a long pole and quite a large number came out.  Guess I will wait until winter and clean out the feedhorn, perhaps upgrade the LNBs. jr Last edited by jr_tech; 08-23-2016 at 08:30 PM.
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That was a wonderful era! I had two TVRO setups. One was installed in 1989, and the other in in 1999. One was C-Band, and the other C and KU-Band. Lots of neat stuff out there back in the day, many unscrambled analog feeds. Used to love the network feeds. Then slowly, digitization, scrambling, and loss of most of the channels. I ran a 4 DTV sidecar for a long time first years of this century. Eventually I moved, and although I still own that property, the dishes are still there but unused. No sense in bringing them to where I now live, since there's not much to watch any more. I still have the Houston Tracker receivers stored away. Their VC II modules long dead. Someone asked about the descrambling gear still sold on Ebay. What do people do with those units now?
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I got 3 DSR-905 sidecars rotting in a box along with a couple GI IRDs.. 4 videociphers, 3 DVB units, 2 dishes and a few dish movers laying around. About time to clean house sadly.
Still keep checking into SATFORUMS to see if anything new going on and to keep up with fellow owners, but you can see tumbleweeds passing through these days... The technology is alive and well, but we were shut out of the market by small dish and cable headends who hated the competition.. Ala-carte programming was a real threat to them.. If people could see what that signal looks like BEFORE their provider gets ahold of it, theyd be pissed.... Nothing beats a first gen signal... Sad to see it gone..... SR
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When I was growing up in the 80's my parents had a couple friends with dishes. I remember they had constant problems, mostly from lightning strikes. In the early 90's a guy I knew asked me to take a look at the dish he had bought (or maybe had given to him.) He couldn't figure out why he couldn't pick anything up. Well, I quickly found it had a lot to do with the fact that he had just nailed it to a salt treated post and shoved it in the ground, no concrete or anything, and it wobbled all around, plus the motor was shot, so, no, there wasn't anything to see! I fiddled with it one afternoon and tuned in some Canadian hockey games (choice of English or French) which impressed the heck out of me but he didn't seem to care. He would eventually offer me the setup if I'd haul it away but I decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
I cleaned out a TV shop a few years ago and he had a big stack of nice looking equipment, some NOS or refurbished. I couldn't give it away. I spotted a big dish on my travels today and it made me think of something I saw at a flea market about 10 years ago: they had taken a bunch of fiberglass dishes, turned them upside down, and used them as umbrellas over flea market tables. Really wished I'd taken a picture!
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Many of them get reused as reflectors for solar water heating. Bonus points for tracking the sun as it traverses the sky.
I've still got a pole-mounted winch for one-man lifting dishes off poles. Removes a lot of drama from the process. Haven't used it in ten years, though... Chip
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My Dad had me get one for the tenant guy & his family up at our farm. Virgle went from getting one or 2 stations rather badly, to more than he could possibly watch. This was in the glory days before much scrambling. All he had was a small color set-MAYBE 13", but he soon got himself a ginormous console. He'd NEVER seen TV w/o snow or some sort of interference.
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There is just one analog channel left now on a C-band satellite, it seems, C-SPAN.
The consumer digital 4DTV service JUST went away less than two weeks ago, the last remnant of an industry that lasted over thirty years to varying extents. Now it is entirely a specialty or hobby activity.
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In 1991 I was frustrated that S2 the farthest East satellite for me with the NASA channel on it was obscured by a limb on a hackberry tree. I went out with a pole saw to cut off a 3" dia maybe 15' long branch, damned thing snapped off and swatted me down like a flyswatter. I was trying to get out from under it when it hit me. I twisted my right ankle around 180° into a multiple fracture. That's the day I became permanently disabled in that right ankle.
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