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re: Who remembers the motorized satellite dish...
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:58 am to beerJeep
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:58 am to beerJeep
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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?
He kept a pipe wrench on the pole to make it easy on me
. Same wrench is riding in my truck 30 years later 
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Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:01 am to WhuckFistle
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I remember satellite T4 was where all the porn was at.
Had one at my camp. Buddies and I would always be manually moving it for some porn.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:09 am to chili pup
At one time they were the state flower in about 2/3s of the US.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:14 am to chili pup
A young man could, if so inclined, catch some pretty awesome stuff on most cable networks back in the day. They'd be scrambled as well but every once in a while, for a couple of seconds, they would be crystal clear. I was mesmerized by ShowTime's Aerobicize....scrambled or not a boy with an imagination and some exposure to porn magazines (they used to litter the sides of the road when I was a kid) could discern what all that bumping and grinding was about....
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:24 am to TheFonz
We had a USSB dish with a jailbroken card, literally had every channel from every time zone
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:26 am to chili pup
I remember in the 80s my parents buying a cheap looking dish(looked like a pie pan with a pvc probe) from a door to door salesman. It had a small on/off box to TV and received HBO only. Obviously he was sharing out HBO illegally from wherever. But country folk with 5 channels didn’t gaf why or how that worked. . That shite lasted for a year or so. I was a fricking ninja late nights creeping to the living room when parents fell asleep to catch a glimpse of HBO titays.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:28 am to chili pup
Circa 1985-86 the go to satellite channel was S1-18
This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 10:50 am
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:31 am to AwgustaDawg
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A young man could, if so inclined, catch some pretty awesome stuff on most cable networks back in the day. They'd be scrambled as well but every once in a while, for a couple of seconds, they would be crystal clear. I was mesmerized by ShowTime's Aerobicize....scrambled or not a boy with an imagination and some exposure to porn magazines (they used to litter the sides of the road when I was a kid) could discern what all that bumping and grinding was about....
good grief, settle down bro.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:34 am to AwgustaDawg
I learned one day at my dad's house as I was switching satellites from G-something to T-something a channel we were not supposed to get would come in clear as day. So if you hit stop at just the right time as the dish was moving, the receiver would blink like there was an error but you would be able to watch everything on that satellite. That was a great summer.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:47 am to chili pup
I remember. The playground rumor was, after the last night of the Fair the Jaycees would have a party in the front admin building of fairgrounds. There was a motorized satellite dish there, and people saw it changing its position in order to pick up the Spice channel. As kids we made a humming motor sound and moved our arm up in unison to accentuate it. Thats just how we communicated back then.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:51 am to chili pup
There was book with the channels. It went like A-H and 1-8 within each one. So G-4 is HBO. Tune it to G-4. Look out the window and watch the giant dish and just wait a minute
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:01 am to High C
When I was in 6th grade, we moved out to the county... went over to a new friend's house and he had a sat dish.
They had a descrambler and NGL, my spank bank overloaded within 10 minutes of American Exxxtasy. And to top it off, his older sister was an absolute smoke show... she sat on the other side of the sofa and watched it.
I almost became an apex predator at age 12.
They had a descrambler and NGL, my spank bank overloaded within 10 minutes of American Exxxtasy. And to top it off, his older sister was an absolute smoke show... she sat on the other side of the sofa and watched it.
I almost became an apex predator at age 12.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:02 am to chili pup
I remember the chipped cable boxes that got you all the channels.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:06 am to chili pup
Had a big ole dish right outside by parents window and soon as mom and dad hit the sack. Myself and the bro would hit the Satellite F4 channel 24 the playboy channel(yes I remember the channel ). You see the thing that horny teens don't realize that in order to get that big ole dish to turn to that specific Satellite there was a motor attached and that motor made alot of noise but you know MOM and Dad had no clue what was going on. Wink Wink . Well that what we believed and 
Good times
). You see the thing that horny teens don't realize that in order to get that big ole dish to turn to that specific Satellite there was a motor attached and that motor made alot of noise but you know MOM and Dad had no clue what was going on. Wink Wink . Well that what we believed and Good times
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:06 am to High C
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People talking about Spice and Playboy channels. This was much more than the tits.
American EXXtasy. So many silent faps.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:09 am to ryanlsu
One of my uncle's, dead now so prosecution is not likely, ran a DISH TV subscriber service in North East Georgia and NW South Carolina. Back in the days when DISH receivers had access cards he could program them where EVERYTHING DISH offered was available for free, including ALL of the pay per view. He sold the cards for $75 or, if you did not have a system, a dish, receiver and a card for about $300 installed. DISH would "zap" the cards occasionally and they had to be reprogrammed. He charged $10 every time it happened. He claimed to have about 1000 of those cards out at one point. I know for a certainty that DISH sued him several times and claimed he was responsible for hacking more than 1000 cards. DISH was never able to make their case though. I do not know how much money he made at this but he bought his farm twice from 2 different women who he married and divorced (apparently a romantic devil but a bastard to live with) during this period and never had a mortgage on it. He also fenced a BUNCH of stuff that he somehow acquired from several trucking companies in the area....he didn't steal it, he was faaaarrrrrr to smart for that, but he knew all the neer do wells in the area, and there were apparently a bunch of them, and they would bring him all manner of stuff...entire tractor trailer loads of things like toilet paper and baby diapers. I miss that old crazy bastard.....
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:11 am to BOSCEAUX
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American EXXtasy. So many silent faps.
Don't know how many pair of socks that were lost due to over faption from that channel. Do the deed then get rid of the evidence before mom found out
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:14 am to Sam Quint
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good grief, settle down bro.
Aggie you obvious have never been to one of these "the struggle was real" threads. Always laugh at these things. These kids today got it made
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:27 am to billjamin
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I remember the chipped cable boxes that got you all the channels.
When I was in high school we lived in an apartment complex up the street from Six Flags. The cable company had an interface Junction box inside the crawl space of every building and inside that Junction box there was a coax to each unit in a building. When someone subscribed to CATV a technician would come out, go into the unlocked crawl space, open that unlocked J box, remove a rubber tit from the center conductor of the appropriate cable and screw it back into the splitter. Depending on the length of the center conductor you would have basic cable or whatever package you paid for. They adjusted the center conductor length by placing an appropriate sized piece of rubber on it. Without any rubber you had everything. Our cable was disconnected once for lack of payment (this happens to white trash) and, wanting to watch TV I crawled under there, removed the rubber boot off ours, and screwed it back in. Had EVERYTHING! Of course it only lasted a month or so before they found it and put another one on it. I went back under there and removed it and another one and switched the one to our unit with the other one. It lasted about 3 months that time. When they did it again I went back and not only switched it but also switched all 12 of them AND switched the labels on ALL of them. It lasted until we moved out. They never corrected it, never locked the J box or the crawl space.
My Dad, proud of his son's ingenuity, told several people in other buildings about my ability, and had me "fix" others in the complex. Cable company, as far as I know, never did a thing about it. When someone moved out they would disconnect them. which would of course disconnect the wrong service and most of the time they just came out and fixed the one that had been disconnected. The technicians were making about $4 an hour...they weren't going to go to do a lot of trouble shooting under the crawl space.
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