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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (21291)	3/15/2003 5:14:48 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

llmarinen, A friend of mine 'captured' one of the satellites in the old days. In the old days they had unsecured FM uplinks. You needed a 15 foot dish and about 200 watts of power to take over a transponder in those days. The strogest signal rules. Now it is encrypted. Caused quite a flap in 1984-5. He put up some naughty stuff and some funny political stuff. His business was NFL uplinks. Drive to a game and take the video feed and squirt it to the satellite for wages. He had a trailer and a transmitter and a portable folding 20 foot dish, the good old days.. Now it has all moved to higher frequencies and smaller dishes and fiber networks etc etc. Bill