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From: uhclem@trsvax
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Galaxy 1 jamming
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 13:41:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 13:41:00 1986
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Nf-From: trsvax!uhclem    Jan 23 12:41:00 1986


[You've got a nice satellite here ... We wouldn't want anything to
 happen to it....]

There was an article off the AP wire around christmas reporting the FCC was
being asked to investigate jamming of a satellite that was occuring
around the end of October.  The article went on to say that this went
on for hours, and so they were certain it wasn't some incompetent remote
news crew trying to bounce a news story back to the home office, since they
usually screw-up other frequencies for only a minute or so.  The article went
on to say that it was almost impossible to find the guilty parties and
went on to tell everyone how $600, your home satellite dish and a bit of
work could put you into the jamming business.  Thank you, AP!

And now for something different!
<FLAME ON>
Well, I hope Homemax and Cinebox are happy with their new toy.
I know one thing;  the glorious MeinComm decoder that they use generates
really strange audio when we have heavy cloud cover/fog and rain here.
(Bet when the weather is really bad at the uplink it gets worse.)
It used to be the video was the only thing that got noisy, but now the
digital sound starts sounding really goofy.  Think of "Mr. Rogers" voice run
through a Vocoder, and you get an idea of what happens to voices.  
The local cable company, as always, says there is nothing they can do,
which is probably true for a change.  I suppose they could complain,
withhold payments, and so on, but good old Time/Space Inc. would simply tell
their decoders to turn off the city cable until the check is in the bank.
Just wait until the Spring when the sun crosses behind the Satellite EVERY
day for a week or so and the signal is so weak that nothing but gas
music from Jupiter emerges.  (Why is this funny?)

(I do not own a dish, and am forced to get HBO through a 37 mile wire,
 with 25,000 taps in front of me.)
<FLAME OFF>

"Now children, don't play or stand too close to the power pole, or you might
 inductively receive cable signals and have to go to jail under Texas law."

<The above is the opinion of me and not my Golden Retriever.  He still
 watches Gilligan on the rabbit ears.>
						
						"Thank you, Uh Clem."
						Frank Durda IV
						@ <trsvax!uhclem>