What IS the hobby?...

[MrGlum]

TBH I bought into satellite when I understood my region, SWEngland, is second on the list for analogue turnoff. Having an internet connection you look up whats going on.

I do have a bit of romance in my soul - I set up my own dish and was rather taken when my efforts on top of a scaffold tower connected me to a satellite 23,000 miles away!!

I can understand chaps wanting sex & football for less than the going rate.
I can understand chaps wanting to pull-in stations from ASFARASWAYASPOSSIBLE
What is the rest - more subtle stuff that makes such enjoyment for you?

[$ly]

Standing on a ladder setting it all up yourself (motor included) and THEN getting all of the above


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[SatelliteHelp]

Originally Posted by MrGlum

TBH I bought into satellite when I understood my region, SWEngland, is second on the list for analogue turnoff. Having an internet connection you look up whats going on.

I do have a bit of romance in my soul - I set up my own dish and was rather taken when my efforts on top of a scaffold tower connected me to a satellite 23,000 miles away!!

I can understand chaps wanting sex & football for less than the going rate.
I can understand chaps wanting to pull-in stations from ASFARASWAYASPOSSIBLE
What is the rest - more subtle stuff that makes such enjoyment for you?

I guess when you boil it all down, it's just wanting to get all the cool free stuff which falls out of the sky. Most of the fun for the serious hobbyist comes in overcoming the obstacles and challenges, understanding the technology and making it work for you.

The serious STB technology comes with some of the more advanced boxes like the Linux receivers and PC decoders. Some of us choose to pass on our experience and have a laugh doing it. I'd hate to think that every man woman and child in the UK thought that Sky was the only provider in Europe.

When you bolt together sex, football, the latest movies, technology-for-the-sake-of-it, doing something that your next-door neighbour doesn't understand and then walking somebody through the process who is 300 miles away, it's better than stamp collecting

Good question though. I'm now going to find out that everyone else is in it for a completely different reason!

SH

[MrGlum]

"When you bolt together sex, football, the latest movies, technology-for-the-sake-of-it, doing something that your next-door neighbour doesn't understand and then walking somebody through the process who is 300 miles away, it's better than stamp collecting Grin"

Reply I like!!!!!!!!

[Analoguesat]

For me its an extension of the old short wave radio listening hobby I used to be involved in. Its much more fun watching your dx.

And I also like the technical challenge of seeing what I can get on whats mainly second equipment, and putting cast off dishes back into use.

One dish came from the woodland behind the cottage and had been bent double.
One had suffered the attention of the local kids and had been jumped on.
One was "come and collect it out of my garden its in the way"

Our Sky dish is a cast off analogue dish salvaged from my parents house.


All dishes have had new lnbs fitted, and been straightened out as required (the one the kids had jumped on took an hour with a 2lb hammer molegrips and a can of beer!)

[MrGlum]

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

For me its an extension of the old short wave radio listening hobby I used to be involved in. Its much more fun watching your dx.

And I also like the technical challenge of seeing what I can get on whats mainly second equipment, and putting cast off dishes back into use.

One dish came from the woodland behind the cottage and had been bent double.
One had suffered the attention of the local kids and had been jumped on.
One was "come and collect it out of my garden its in the way"

Our Sky dish is a cast off analogue dish salvaged from my parents house.


All dishes have had new lnbs fitted, and been straightened out as required (the one the kids had jumped on took an hour with a 2lb hammer molegrips and a can of beer!)

If I find a beat-up dish I'll be with you there. Stuff ending up in Land-fill before its time is not good.

[Analoguesat]

Delighted to hear it!

Heres some info on that terribly sad dish I straightened out:

http://www.digitalsat.co.uk/huntingarabsat.html

[BGonaSTICK]

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

All dishes have had new lnbs fitted, and been straightened out as required (the one the kids had jumped on took an hour with a 2lb hammer molegrips and a can of beer!)

So....................

Where does the can of beer come into it again?!?!?

[Analoguesat]

About every 15 minutes!! The pint of Wolverhampton's finest is clearly visible in one of the pics.

[Jimdefruit]

It is very rewarding helping out 'friends' in the satellite field. I have spent a bit of time on instant messaging and voipfone trying and sometimes suceeding to help a couple of mates. I've never met them and only got contact with them via the satellite scene.
Beats standing on the street corner.