Satellite Tv Week

[Pismire]

I still have my original 18" fiberglass RCA dish from '96. From the back it kinda looks like a miniature Primestar!

Oh come on you tease, where is our picture.

 

[Mr Tony]

I have an old Sony dish still.....its around here somewhere

 

[iafirebuff]

My original RCA DSS dish was metal 18" single LNB. I did at one time have a Sony system - it was nice as it had a signal meter light on the lnb

 

[iafirebuff]

Ahh Primestar! Our local cable company sold those too as did Radio Shack

We sold Primestars at Radio Shack in 95 because we weren't a DirecTV store

 

[Techfizzle]

My original RCA DSS dish was metal 18" single LNB. I did at one time have a Sony system - it was nice as it had a signal meter light on the lnb

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[dfergie]

My original RCA DSS dish was metal 18" single LNB.

Same here, I ended up with 2 systems as a lightning strike disabled my first receiver... tried hooking it up after a few months and it started working again...

 

[iafirebuff]

Ahhh no - too long ago

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[iafirebuff]

That is weird! I had no issues with mine. When we switched in the late 90's to Dish, we had a cool Dish Network JVC Digital VHS receiver/recorder. Man that was awesome! $800 but I ended up getting it for free

Same here, I ended up with 2 systems as a lightning strike disabled my first receiver... tried hooking it up after a few months and it started working again...

 

[Tron]

The early DBS dishes were interesting. The Sony dishes used a proprietary LNBF (you couldn't use a stock DBS LNBF as a replacement). Other DirecTV dishes were fiberglass, manufactured by Channel Master (just like the Primestars). I have a fiberglass Phase II CM dish, from when the 110w bird was optional

 

[Mr Tony]

I have one of those too Tron..The Phase II

while back when 91W had some free audio I had a DBS at 91, a KU at 101 because KUIL and 3ABN were strong signals and a DBS at 110 for my Dish subscription

 

[Tron]

I remember that... My Phase II has been sitting unused, maybe someday I'll put it up somewhere