Weirdest Feed Name You Remember?

[SpiffWilkie]

So, what's the weirdest name that has ever scanned in for you while feed hunting?
The other day I was scanning 103w and "Midget Boy" scanned in. I didn't get a chance to see what was on the feed but it made me think about what other names people have seen on feeds?
So, how about you?

 

[AcWxRadar]

Spiffwilkie,

I have seen that one, too - "Midget Boy". But the one that I liked was "Swamp Boy".

RADAR

 

[brentb636]

I think these are the nicknames put into the encoders on the sat trucks by the operators. I might be wrong. They always seem to stay in a general area. I've seen both Swamp Boy 1 and Swamp Boy 2 on feeds.

 

[digiblur]

Had one with my username one time but I wasn't able to scan it at the time since I wasn't home

 

[Jim S.]

Flying Cow on 91.

 

[Mr Tony]

some I cant post here

swampboy is usually a funny one as is Cheesesteak

the ones I really think that are funny are ones that show as ____________ network but are a totally different feed.

Hypothetical example is a program for Fox Sports Net that logs as ESPN or it shows "CBS" and its a NBC owned cable network

 

[guapoharry]

Chowdah

 

[SpiffWilkie]

I see "Luke Skywalker" today. I seem to recall some Star Wars ones before.

 

[Jim S.]

I read that the Star Wars crowd was out for the Little League World Series, but I wasn't pointed at any birds with feeds at the time.

 

[Mr Tony]

Chowdah

that was another one I saw today too...but no H at the end

Other ones are actual people's names

 

[N5XZS]

I remember there was a fulltime feed, on 127*W bird called channel SNOT!!

I wonder why, would anyone name this silly name?

 

[Mr Tony]

yep I remember that...found a few posts about it

http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/150662-g18-problem.html
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/87251-g13-h1-snot-snom.html

 

[Mr Tony]

another good one is FREEBIRD

Always waiting to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd in the background..

 

[turbosat]

I like the ones where they try to throw you off track-I see "TWC" a lot and you would think The Weather Channel, but its usually some kind of sports feed. Some of them are pretty creative, seems like I remember "Joan Crawford" once or twice lol.

 

[Mr Tony]

TWC is usually Time Warner Cable but yeah I do the same thing....is it a weather feed or sports?

 

[DiscoLoveGrapes]

I've seen Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on the same bird

There was one mid-June that popped up as "Santa Claus" as well.

 

[Mr Tony]

I saw an original today

"FEEDS"

 

[turbosat]

another tricky one

Live Surgery-Phenix
its a college football game on G17 right now, Troy and somebody lol
they think they're fooling us!

 

[mikekohl]

During the first Gulf War, we were doing SNG uplinks from the region.
Some days there was too much time on our hands, so one of us started playing with the menu on the character generator. In addition to the location, we added a line that said "watch the blinking box *" (the last character being a flashing box intended for the next letter). Weird, but good for a laugh on a slow day.

 

[Jim S.]

Broadcast_Biscuit

(That wasn't even the funniest part. They had the real location and purpose of the feed written on a Post-It note stuck to the back of a chair. I guess they didn't bring a character generator.)