YAM277
Yamaholic
I couldn't resist, homeowner was outside his house and says it still works!!! These behemoths ran around 10 Grand during the Eighties!!!
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Well, why not? Yours is from around the eighties, and it still works, right? 
YAM277
Yamaholic
Homeowner (Jason) said it still works! That's 65 cents a day and counting down!!!
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That's cool. If he has that hooked up to a "DishTV" or "DirectTV" receiver, he must be able to get, what, like, a bazillion channels?!!! Especially if he points it at different satellites.... 
X77S
Let's do this!
You used to be able to hack the old direct tv units with a computer and unlock literally millions of channels for free.
hovel
ol' stupid
Some time back I saw a sign in front of satellite dish/receiver store that said "the only thing you can't unscramble is eggs". I don't think that's the case anymore but the last time I looked, there was still a lot of free-to-air TV broadcasts out there and on top of that, many available satellites not of the USA. There may still be network feeds, NASA transmissions, who knows what else. Today's technology has eliminated the need for the larger dish but there certainly isn't anything wrong with it. I've been told that satellite internet is the pits.
YAM277
Yamaholic
25 mbps is nothing to crow about, Hughes.net I think would suck?
YAM277
Yamaholic
Upload speeds of 3 mbps for $170 month! Not me.
I’m here to tell you, as bad as you think it might be, it’s worse than that I promise. Since I live out in the boonies, that’s all there is. Elon Musk is my hero. I’m now on the Starlink beta test. It’s just like internet coming in on a copper wire. When Comcast finally shows up I’ll have the option of telling them to stuff it!
The big dish is Viasat that we just turned off. The little one is Starlink.
YAM277
Yamaholic
Comcast can't come soon enough! This internet here in Pa. reminds me of the dial up days. Pathetic.
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