Giant 'old-time' satellite dish:How can I find out if it works?

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by motormaker

Yep, the cost to update is painful and many of the sats you have to pay for. Cut mine up and recycled the aluminum and went with the small dish, much happier.

You cut it up? You could have done this: Build A Unique Garden Gazebo

[speed gonzales]

Can any one tell what small dish will replace those big c/ku band dish , who sell those small dish please.Thank youspeed gonzales

[Busch71]

Anybody remember the "test chips" that you could buy and install in the receivers to defeat the VideoCipher and VideoCipher II encryption?

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by South Range Family

Nagra 3 is bad. Read up on it.

Why?

Because it keeps people from illegally receiving stations?


If you spent millions to launch a satellite into space, wouldn't you be pissed that people not paying you get the benefit of it?

[GregW]

imho - IF YOU BROADCAST A SIGNAL you lose control of what people with recievers do with the signal. The big dishes are merely reflector concentrators. it is the decoder/reciever that is important.

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by GregW

imho - IF YOU BROADCAST A SIGNAL you lose control of what people with recievers do with the signal.

That's because you're not the one paying to broadcast it.