RE: tv aerials - connecting people to entertainment

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tv aerials - connecting people to entertainment

in blackandwhite •  6 years ago 

sounds quite a big dish , did it have many channels : )

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Hundreds. You see those dishes had a moter and it had to find the satellites in the sky to intercept the tv station signals. We had to punch in cordnance codes for each band of channels. Sometimes I would pick up a band all the way from Japan and watched the Japanese channel. I picked up a few Mexican channels too.
The odd thing was there was a rare planetary alignment that knocked the signals out for a while.
Back in those days everyone in my family had a decent job when the coal mines where open and that dish was about 4,000 US dollars.

  1. 000 dollars for a dish ?? that planetary alignment sounds intriguing

When they first came out but the price came down a lot. It was new tech at the time. I’m not sure if I was born yet when they came out. We had to replace the moter and a hydrolic arm costed 800.00

800 dollars to fix one , I would not bother !!!

At the time people back there had some money to spend because they all had full time jobs and owned the property for generations; thus no property or house payments. Too bad there is nothing back there anymore the local economy got so bad there people had to move to find jobs. I had to move away myself.

I reckon loss of jobs is everywhere , what do you do for work ?

Patient care and sometimes I scrap metal on the side.

sounds interesting is it anything to do with nursing or maybe mental health , it 's hard work. there is money in scrap so there say x

We lived easy back in the deep mountains with no cable. So yes I can say I used to hack satalite dishes with long codes with a device called a descrambler that device was 800. Dollars. Lol after I learned to walk I hacked satalites lol

well I won't say anything ha ha x