my grandpa had one, it was the coolest thing at the time because it allowed us to watch US programming from northern Ontario. had a button that actually made the fucking sucker move so it could connect to different satellites each with different programing. Other kids had shit YTV and i was watching Cartoon Network like a 10yo boss
Anyway I never thought about it till recently but its weird that the Dish had to move to specific directions to pick up specific singles from satellites.
i find that weird that you need to point a dish in a specific direction to get a signal from something moving 17000 miles per hour.. around our pear-ish sideways egg shaped planet.
to me this only makes sense if they were somewhat stationary🤔... are they all just lunched on balloons like this?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_kWN0BsKs
P.S. I prescribe to neither the globe or flat earth theory (to me this shit is nothing short of a weird biological simulation with a possible oblivious creator) so dont mistake my distrust of NASA for anything other then that.. I just fucking dont trust NASA anymore.
Not only did my family have one of those big c band satellite dishes, we still have it. Having to program and set the channels, installing heat wrap onto the motor so it wouldn’t freeze up, best thing we ever did(well dad did) was spend like $600 and get a modem board and make a deal with a friend and at 6pm everyday it dialed up and downloaded the codes to unlock every channel. Ppv movies, movie channels, porn, every channel they had, without paying like 250 bucks a month for them. Others have already explained the geosynchronous orbit so I won’t. But it sure went he’ll wasn’t pointing at some cell tower back in 1986 in Manitoba. I also remember when the us military tried out a satellite killer and missed their defunct one and hit Telstar 2 I think it was. From 12-14 out of the 24 possible channels on it, to zero one day to the next, with all the channels being rebound to other open spots on other satellites after a short while, pain in the ass to find them again really. All the propaganda aside, American tv was WAY better than Canadian tv. The shows on Nick at night, Rawhide, stuff on USA network, swamp thing, tales from the crypt, that weird time offset TBS of 5 minutes so if you surfed the other channels and had seen stuff or weren’t interested you could check them last and not miss anything cause it was just starting.... yeah no comparison to the Canadian tv I saw at friends and family members houses.