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Who remembers the motorized satellite dish...

Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:02 am
Posted by chili pup
Member since Sep 2011
3697 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:02 am
...and the channel being changed up and down to catch a peek of boobs on a scrambled channel?

Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
22800 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:04 am to
My old man got one of these.

I was the king of the neighborhood.

There was the Playboy Channel, and then there was the trashier version....the Spice Channel.

This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 9:07 am
Posted by 4x4tiger
Louisiana
Member since Feb 2006
5203 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:04 am to
13 year old me remembers. I was so excited when I was able to make out a boob through all that

This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 9:05 am
Posted by Bear88
Member since Oct 2014
14721 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:04 am to
Was hell trying to get it off a “bad satellite” with Electric Blue while mom was coming into the house .. took forever
Posted by Schmelly
Member since Jan 2014
15853 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:05 am to
I remember sweating out it changing directions from the spice channel while my parents were arriving home like the mom from Cat in the Hat
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
37733 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:06 am to
quote:

Who remembers the motorized satellite dish...


Motorized? You mean dad sending my arse outside in the cold to turn that bitch by hand to catch the LSU game in the middle of the frickin woods?
Posted by Schmelly
Member since Jan 2014
15853 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:06 am to
quote:

Bear88

Sounds like we had similar childhoods lol
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
72265 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:11 am to
I see nipple
Posted by LittleJerrySeinfield
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Member since Aug 2013
10373 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:12 am to
quote:

Was hell trying to get it off a “bad satellite” with Electric Blue while mom was coming into the house .. took forever


They knew. If the satellite was pointed straight up...they knew.
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
8186 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:13 am to
Wore the motor on the actuators out regularly, swinging a 3m dish from horizon to horizon.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
23145 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:13 am to

I remember motorized rooftop TV antennas, with a controller that was typically on top of a big console TV.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59455 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:22 am to
quote:

I remember motorized rooftop TV antennas, with a controller that was typically on top of a big console TV.


This bad boy

Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
12088 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:23 am to
I see a nipple.
Posted by Pepperoni
Mar-a-Lago
Member since Aug 2013
4151 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:24 am to
quote:

The price of a backyard satellite dish advertised in a 1979 Neiman Marcus catalog was $36,000 —the first such dish sold commercially.

Soon, the prices went down significantly, especially after the Federal Communications Commission deregulated the usage of such dishes, which used the open-air C-Band range of wireless signals, so they could be used by more than cable companies.

A 1981 New York Times article noted that dishes could be had for as low as $3,000; a 1985 piece cut that price down to $1,500.



From
LINK https://www.neatorama.com/

Posted by CR4090
Member since Apr 2023
8247 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:28 am to
I think we paid about $1200 for ours back in 87 or 88. I had to put a fence around it to keep the cows from using it as a scratching post.

Everything was unscrambled..Everything
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138179 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:30 am to
Satellite Satcom 1
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59455 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:33 am to
quote:

Everything was unscrambled..Everything


People talking about Spice and Playboy channels. This was much more than the tits.

Posted by WhuckFistle
Member since Jul 2015
3356 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:42 am to
My parents still have theirs even though it hasn’t been used in decades.

I remember satellite T4 was where all the porn was at.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
15907 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:45 am to
C Band was the shite in the 80's and early 90's before Ted Turner screw it all up for everyone with his greed.
Posted by Deek
Member since Sep 2013
1240 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:54 am to
quote:

You mean dad sending my arse outside in the cold to turn that bitch by hand


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