First Channel

rainman · #1 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 01:59 PM

Just wondering if anybody can remember the first channel you lock onto when installing your first satellite system.For me it was Telemundo on G4 c band analog back in the early 90's.

bobkat · #2 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 02:07 PM

For me I guess it would have been DirecTv - back in '97 when DirecTv was still "sort of" legal in Canada. That was my first - took me 4 hours to complete the install... LOL

kat

wejones · #3 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 02:32 PM

I can't remember what I first found on MY dish, but a couple weeks before I put mine up, a co-worker installed the same dish I bought, and I'm pretty sure that we found one of the ABC or CBS network feeds on T-301 or T-302. I likely tried to find the same thing when I set mine up a couple weeks later.
I do remember being quite skeptical that we'd find ANYTHING, and was amazed when the channels came in crystal clear.

rainman · #4 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by bobkat

For me I guess it would have been DirecTv - back in '97 when DirecTv was still "sort of" legal in Canada. That was my first - took me 4 hours to complete the install... LOL

kat

4 hours would have been nice took me about 4 weeks due to grounding out a wire to the down converter box.LOL

Live and learn I guest.

Iceberg · #5 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 06:46 PM

When I installed the Dish system...took me 4 hours too but finally got Channel 101

First KU channel I saw when installing a dish? CCTV on G3

vze59zgb · #6 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rainman

Just wondering if anybody can remember the first channel you lock onto when installing your first satellite system.For me it was Telemundo on G4 c band analog back in the early 90's.

about 3 years ago i installed 36 in dish had a tv and receiver out there with me got the spec for galaxy 129. got the satt the first thing i saw was a john wayne movie needless to say how excited i was. been in it ever since great hobey that time it was called star net now i have 4 receivers and 4 dishes from sadoun vze59zgb

vze59zgb · #7 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by rainman

4 hours would have been nice took me about 4 weeks due to grounding out a wire to the down converter box.LOL

Live and learn I guest.

can happen to the best of us see how it turned out now your an expert always say you learn by your mistakes i did vze59zgb

rainman · #8 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by vze59zgb

can happen to the best of us see how it turned out now your an expert always say you learn by your mistakes i did vze59zgb

yep about 15 years of mistakes and this is starting to get fun.

Larry Acklin · #9 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 10:02 AM

C band analog, HH motor, 10 ft dish, first light was the Golf Channel. I remeber it like it was yesterday. (and that was about 10 years ago)

Larry

rainman · #10 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Larry Acklin

C band analog, HH motor, 10 ft dish, first light was the Golf Channel. I remeber it like it was yesterday. (and that was about 10 years ago)

Larry

yeah the first time always stays with you.LOL

satnutwillb · #11 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 02:45 PM

Mine was originally installed by a dealer.We moved and although it was a short distance and the only adjustments I had to make was rotating whole assembly on the pole,I was relieved when I tuned in Amc when it was on Amc4 analog.Since then,by trial and error I have fine tune every setting,because I added ku.

Jim-S · #12 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 06:16 PM

Mine was the Patient channel on AMC3 this past July....I was pretty excited. Doing your own work has some satisfaction. I wont' tell you how long it took.
Jim

satnutwillb · #13 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by satnutwillb

Mine was originally installed by a dealer.We moved and although it was a short distance and the only adjustments I had to make was rotating whole assembly on the pole,I was relieved when I tuned in Amc when it was on Amc4 analog.Since then,by trial and error I have fine tune every setting,because I added ku.

Whoops,typo,I mean when AMC was on AMC10 analog transponder 1.

rainman · #14 (**permalink**) 12-15-2007, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim-S

Mine was the Patient channel on AMC3 this past July....I was pretty excited. Doing your own work has some satisfaction. I wont' tell you how long it took.
Jim

agreed Jim especially when you realized how far away the target is that you are aiming at that's very satisfying.

1captain · #15 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 04:03 PM

Yes i can remember rainman Dr. Gene Scott on weststar-5 c-band an that is going back a few moons ago, I think.

rainman · #16 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 1captain

Yes i can remember rainman Dr. Gene Scott on weststar-5 c-band an that is going back a few moons ago, I think.

yep and he's still on c band analog probaly the last analog channel to go.

bali · #17 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 02:30 PM

Yup ! it was Dr Gene Scott.

the day i got my first c-band setup in the mid 80's

spent most of the a fall afternoon trying to get the system working
but a bad rg-59 cable gave me fits. not until darkness came, did i
figure that out and i was swinging the dish around manually looking
form NASA TV.

no nasa but before i quit trying for the night, i found the doctor.

i was happy to be getting anything!

so that first night of sat tv, i watched dr scott, some shopping channel
and a feed or two

i found nasa the next day

its been a blast ever since !!