Any c-band cowboys still out there? I was lucky enough to grow

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Introduced to linear actuators way before Bill Nye could touch on em.

Anons? I'm feeling old here, where are the other cbanders?

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>tfw no c-band dish

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>>59072919

Anon... you're missing out on literally 1000+ channels free....

>mfw leaked descrambler codes cost $5 a month.
>mfw east, west, north, south, up down, left right, I get all the locals
>mfw theres still wild feeds that show entire seasons of things like GARGOYLES
>mfw find a wildfeed with sundance movies before they become big in theaters

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I wish I could scream at anons. So much, OP here.

What was MEANT for your local cable company is STILL broadcast onto your property. C-BAND satellites can STILL receive these signals and descramble them if you have the hardware which can cost fuck all on ebay. The dish you have to source yourself.

You will see shows before they're shown to the public, pilots that will never see the light of day, hardcore porn, MOVIES, HOLY FUCK, you have channels that will wild feed and play nothing but 10-30+ episodes of one show.

The quality is amazing.. streamed right to your door, and all you need is peanuts in hardware, except for the dish since most 10-12' models will need a concrete pad.

Do it anon, join us.

>>59073113
If I got a dish I can just catch backhaul television before it airs?

That's... Actually pretty fucking cool. How much does a dish cost?

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>>59073202

It all depends on how much you can get the dish for. Unlike the modern ku-band satellite, c-band has to move, they also have to be big, I think 3' is the minimum, I wouldn't do less than 10' you can find them used for removal off LOTS of rural properties.

These fucks are HEAVY and you will need to pour a concrete pad for a 6' or above, the bigger the dish the better the signal.

The actual deciphering hardware is $5 to $30 on ebay, more if it comes with a remote...which you might want if the receiver doesn't come with a manual jog function (moving the dish manually)

Outside you'll need a 10'+ dish with feedhorn, inside you'll need a satellite box with descrambler and power supply. The ONLY harder to source thing is the cable, which you can make your own but eh... it supplies power to the linear actuator from the satellite box to move the dish, and receives the signal.

In the 80's early 90's this is what richfags were using to watch ANYTHING before you could. Free HBO (When that meant something) was the big draw.

Last time I had a dish, I used it for 23cm radio astronomy. Cooling that LNA was a bitch, wish I had better access to liquid nitrogen.

>>59073450
Sorry, not 23cm... 21cm. It's been a long night.

>>59073330
This sounds far too good to be true. Do you know if this is being done with SDRs and downconverters? Also, exactly what kind of hardware do you need to decipher the signals?

Lastly, are all of these channels encrypted (or encoded, I'm not exactly sure) with the same code? That seems really stupid, if these different channels are supposed to be received by different recipients.

>>59073486

I haven't paid attention to the hardware since its heyday, which as I'm watching a wild feed of Home Improvement on a wild feed right now hasn't changed much.

No, not all channels are encoded the same, the point of having an unscrambler was you would load either a set of codes per channel or have someone with a PC and the correct interface to load your box.That part I've never done.

I STILL get codes on DOT FUCKNIG MATRIX paper from my installer.

I just finished the episode of Home Improvement where Tim sells his hotrod to Jay Leno, I swear it was way beyond 1080p, right now my satellite is sitting on fox's Galaxy-3 satellite watching episodes of The Simpsons.

>>59072992
you realise we live in the age of downloading what you want, when you want, for free, with minimal inconvenience right?

Why would I bother with this shit when I can get 1080p web-dls from BTN in mere moments?

>>59073857

Because fi you know your wild feeds, you'll get it before it becomes a torrent.

>>59073857
I think there's something to be said about tuning into something you don't know about, vs seeing only what content you want to see. Also the wild feeds sound fantastic.

>>59073886
If that is true, scene groups would be on that shit and it'll be uploaded in hours anyway. I don't need to see something the instant it is available.

>>59073892
That's what content discovery tools are for. I don't find this a compelling point.

>>59073918

Wild feeds used to be a thing but nobody cared about 10 episodes of Voyager, 20 episodes fo Married with Children, a season of Darkwing ducik etc, they still broadcast but nobody records them,

Remember UPN? They had a show callled B.A.D. the Beureau of Alien Detectors, same animator as the men in black series, only with heroes that could use alien powers themselves, never made it to live TV, or Starship Troopers, roughneck chronicles LATER seasons...

>>59072819
>>59072992
>>59073113
What if I live in Hawaii? Aren't there a lot fewer satellites available?

>>59074078
>What if I live in Hawaii?
I think I'd be willing to sacrifice tv if I lived on a paradise island.

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>>59074612
Pic fucking related you lucky fuck.

Come to Pittsburgh! We get all the channels and live lives of despair.

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Have any of you managed to pick up North Korean TV?
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2015/04/15/north-korean-tv-expands-satellite-transmissions/

>>59072819
I grew up with it but had no idea what we had, I miss it so much now

>>59073113
Just like the anon in Hawaii. What if I live in Mexico?
I remember satellite like OP's were all the rage among the above average people over here.

This was before my time but I've thought about getting into it. There was a place near me that had a bunch of them sitting around. Kind of weird really.

Oh my god I'd love to get into this. Satellite always fascinated me as a kid. One of the first things my mom did as soon as she divorced my dad was buy a complete C-Band setup. I guess he never wanted one because he was hardcore Mormon and believed that receiving satellite signals of TV shows on wild feeds was some kind of punishable sin.

But holy fuck was that thing amazing. We got so many channels and when my mom realized we could get even more with some slight upgrades (motor and newer receiver) she went out and got it. Fuck I remember watching The Disney Afternoon the night before it aired on local TV.

She even rigged it to pick up some of the radio stations that had satellite feeds so we would be listening to stations in Seattle, New York, Canada from our home in Salt Lake City. Keep in mind, this was years before the internet was even a thing and many more before streaming radio.

Any suggestions or guides to follow to get started? I've definitely got the space in my back yard to pour a couple of pads, and my view in all directions is completely clear of any obstructions.

Will I also be picking up only 480i/p video or is it possible to pull 1080p or even 4k at this point?

>>59073113
If I had such a large dish, I would primarily use it for catching extraterrestrial signals with my RTL-SDR.

>>59073662
Where does your installer get the codes from? Are they leaked?

>>59077651
One guy made a weather radar based on an old satellite dish. Very cool.

We have one that's used for picking up Digital TV channels from Asia (India, Anyfuckistan and China) all the way here in Australia. I have no idea how it works though or if it could pick up anything else.

im interested anon