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<blockquote data-quote="Telia" data-source="post: 683374" data-attributes="member: 317762"><p>I had BSB back in the days in Sweden, i actually bought a plane ticket and went over to Manchester after i found a small add in What Satellite mag to get a BSB kit home, after i set it up at home i called my friend in the UK to call BSB to activate the box as i registered the sub on his adress.</p><p></p><p>However the signal was so low in my part of the country that i had to use my 2.4m solid dish having a elevation of only 8 degrees or something, but the D-MAC pictures were brilliant.</p><p></p><p>Actually everything started going downhill when the first Astra 1A satellite was launched at 19.2E, Sky regrouped their channels and Filmnet and other channels were changed.</p><p></p><p>It was great back when you had two major satellites in 1985, Intelsat at 27.5W and ECS F-1 at 13E, it was xmas turning the dish manually to Intelsat and watch when the Premiere movie channel started in the afternoon, the receiver i had used two knobs, one for frequency and the other for audio.</p><p></p><p>Still it was alot of sparklies but it was paradise watching those channels as they were FTA at the beginning, we only had two channels in Sweden at the time so this was paradise, back then you could get the real deal CNN USA from 27.5W, today we have CNN euro with is a totaly different channel really.</p><p></p><p>And not too mention Filmnet first year they broadcasted it was totally FTA before they started some inversion coding of the signal, this must been year 1984 or 1983.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Telia, post: 683374, member: 317762"] I had BSB back in the days in Sweden, i actually bought a plane ticket and went over to Manchester after i found a small add in What Satellite mag to get a BSB kit home, after i set it up at home i called my friend in the UK to call BSB to activate the box as i registered the sub on his adress. However the signal was so low in my part of the country that i had to use my 2.4m solid dish having a elevation of only 8 degrees or something, but the D-MAC pictures were brilliant. Actually everything started going downhill when the first Astra 1A satellite was launched at 19.2E, Sky regrouped their channels and Filmnet and other channels were changed. It was great back when you had two major satellites in 1985, Intelsat at 27.5W and ECS F-1 at 13E, it was xmas turning the dish manually to Intelsat and watch when the Premiere movie channel started in the afternoon, the receiver i had used two knobs, one for frequency and the other for audio. Still it was alot of sparklies but it was paradise watching those channels as they were FTA at the beginning, we only had two channels in Sweden at the time so this was paradise, back then you could get the real deal CNN USA from 27.5W, today we have CNN euro with is a totaly different channel really. And not too mention Filmnet first year they broadcasted it was totally FTA before they started some inversion coding of the signal, this must been year 1984 or 1983. [/QUOTE]
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