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<blockquote data-quote="Pack93z" data-source="post: 160695" data-attributes="member: 288"><p>Back in the day my father and I installed the old type satellite dishes. Pre-digital all cable was transmitted via analog signal, each satellite could handle 24 channels. So to carry the amount of channels that were available multiple satellites carried feeds. Your cable companies had one dish pointing towards each transponder that carried the desired channel. Hence the large number of physical dishes at your cable company.</p><p></p><p>Each transponder has a physical location in the sky, AMC is the dish name, channel 23. C-band dictates the wave frequency that the signal is carried on. Back in the day, the satellites were identified such as G1, G2 and so forth.</p><p></p><p>Back in the 80's if you bought a dish the channels were open and you could get them all. In the mid-80's encyption started so people that bought the dishes could be charged for the service. And the broadcasters viewership exploded because they could start to capitalize on the rural customers. However these dishes were a pain to maintain and were large and ugly in your yard.</p><p></p><p>With digital technology the appliance could be small and no moving parts on the outside. It also eliminated the need for all the different satellites to transmit the signal. However alot of companies still broadcast in analog as well, plus since there is a surplus of old technology the price went down and some "ham" operator types have taken to broadcasting on these old satellites.</p><p></p><p>Alot of the military channels for troops and such are still broadcast in analog as well. My guess this is the feed that they mentioned.</p><p></p><p>Sorry... I think the last analog dish I worked with was in maybe 1992, so names and some of the technology may have changed a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pack93z, post: 160695, member: 288"] Back in the day my father and I installed the old type satellite dishes. Pre-digital all cable was transmitted via analog signal, each satellite could handle 24 channels. So to carry the amount of channels that were available multiple satellites carried feeds. Your cable companies had one dish pointing towards each transponder that carried the desired channel. Hence the large number of physical dishes at your cable company. Each transponder has a physical location in the sky, AMC is the dish name, channel 23. C-band dictates the wave frequency that the signal is carried on. Back in the day, the satellites were identified such as G1, G2 and so forth. Back in the 80's if you bought a dish the channels were open and you could get them all. In the mid-80's encyption started so people that bought the dishes could be charged for the service. And the broadcasters viewership exploded because they could start to capitalize on the rural customers. However these dishes were a pain to maintain and were large and ugly in your yard. With digital technology the appliance could be small and no moving parts on the outside. It also eliminated the need for all the different satellites to transmit the signal. However alot of companies still broadcast in analog as well, plus since there is a surplus of old technology the price went down and some "ham" operator types have taken to broadcasting on these old satellites. Alot of the military channels for troops and such are still broadcast in analog as well. My guess this is the feed that they mentioned. Sorry... I think the last analog dish I worked with was in maybe 1992, so names and some of the technology may have changed a bit. [/QUOTE]
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