I also began early, in 1983-4, and I had what amounted to a 'Longs Electronics special'... a hand crank fiberglass 10 footer. You were not alone in your midnight cranking. (hihi)
My first receiver was a crude KLM, which mated to the converter (Attached to the pipe) which then went to the LNA. My rating on that LNA was a spectacular 100! 2nd dish was a wire mesh. A dish sold thru, of all places, SAM's. That one suffered fatique. I should have stuck with dish #1. 3rd dish was perf aluminum, a Winegard 10 footer, which I have today. On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:24:13 -0600, "johanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That name brings back memories. (So does yours Frank) >I sure remember those great days of Analog C band, I remember how excited I >was when I, yes I, installed a rather tall horizontal pipe in my front yard in >late 1980, followed by putting together and then installing a 10 foot C band >dish and then in early 1981, I finally boresited everything in, using a hand >crank to change satellite positions. That was a dumb idea on how to save >money. >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
