Back in time :My first satellite system

[zorrin]

Hi everyone,
Today I found the folder of my first satellite system.
Buy November 30, 1990 at the impressive price of 3490 Fr ...
it consisted of a 60cm radom antenna and a 48 channel receiver.







The antenna was sold with a very well thought out multiple attachment system

 

[zorrin]

At that time in France very few people know about satellite reception.
at that time I was 18

 

[jeallen01]

I think there have been "quite a few" similar threads here "in the past" - "interesting times", they were!

PS: I was not the "first" because my first system went up sometime in early 1991 (NEC 5000 Rx/7000 positioner + NEC/? 80cm dish on an NEC/Jaeger H-H mount) - happy days!

 

[zorrin]

I think there have been "quite a few" similar threads here "in the past" - "interesting times", they were!

PS: I was not the "first" because my first system went up sometime in early 1991 (NEC 5000 Rx/7000 positioner + NEC/? 80cm dish on an NEC/Jaeger H-H mount) - happy days!

It took me a long time to have a real motorized system.
After this I bought an AMSTRAD SRD 600 in Torquay.
Then I came to OLYMPIA for the satellite show and bought a PACE MS1000.
After and this time in France I bought my first motorized system.
A Channel Master 1M20 with a 12 "actuator and an ALBA receiver / positioner for only 1500 francs !
I don't know why a supermarket decided to sell satellite dishes and by mistake the price had been underestimated.
I still have the CM today

 

[satellite hobby]

@zorrin and jeallen01
why or what interest led you both,to a satellite system?

 

[jeallen01]

@zorrin and jeallen01
why or what interest led you both,to a satellite system?

For my part it was when I lived in Bristol in around 1988 and was at a party in the flat of someone (far more affluent than I!) who had a (C band, I guess) system and showed something (can't remember WTH it was!) - and that got my interest in "sat stuff", which continues until today (and has cost me a "lot"!).

 

[zorrin]

I'm pretty sure the problem started with this ...



when I was 16 or 17 I went to Toquay for a language course. my host family used the money received for my stay to buy a satellite system on ASTRA. we installed it and spent the weekend watching the channels.
For me it was just magic.
after that I started looking in France without too much success for a not too expensive system. But there was not the same enthusiasm in France as in the UK or in Germany.

 

[dreambox1959]

at this time (1988) with my old friend jean we bought astra kit in UK , bring back in france , i create a small board to get 5.8mhz sound and we sold many set around us !!! i can bought my first LNB very expensive with that ... in france a set cost about 500 to 1500 euros , my british set cost 200 !!! good job .