Secret Satellite Signals - Muzak - NHL - In the Clear - 100's of FREE Channels

Brings back memories. At one point, we had five satellite antennas on our house. We enjoyed exploring the (actual) FTA international channels. These days we have fiber optic 1.5Gbps internet...

Can you imagine having access to this equipment 30+ years ago! What we could see.

As a satellite enthusiast and a ham radio operator, i`m in love with this content. Too bad i found your channel so late. Greetings from Turkey/Istanbul.

I miss the old C Band days. I'll always remember the news cast feed from Japan where a beautiful Japanese woman would fix her makeup during commercial breaks. And then she picked her nose! lol

For 37 years, Now retired 3 Years ago. I used to install MUZAK Now Moodmedia Antennas. All the DBS Stuff has been turned off and the Satellites have fallen out of orbit LOL...The are slowly phasing out Satellite all together and the Music will be downloaded via the internet.. back in the 80's I used to sit at the Shop watching News Truck uplinks, Ford Dealer technical training videos. all kinds of great stuff. Some of which I recorded..

You have the coolest videos on YouTube. Brings back memories of my FTA days.

I'm sure the cat(s?) love that CRT spectrum analyzer even more than you do

You started the video with my favourite clip lmao. Kills me every time hahaha

"wow, my god, i glad i'm not in that country. *chuckles*" Peter Fairlie 6/7/2024

its impresive you can get those signals in the ku band with such focal antenna. I get that with a medium signal with an offset antenna around here. I used to have 1.2diameter offset antenna and captured a few spanish football feeds from la liga with no commercials and ads.thats was really nice. I have never been able to capture intelsat 14 since the footprint doesn't reach where i am now.

you can tune in to satellite ISP data channels, sniff the data transmitted to users, and see all kinds of stuff in the old days before fast internet. we used to tune in to these channels and some people would download big files ( movies ) and everyone sniffing it would get a copy I filled a hard disk with movies that way

Awesome video Peter, man I look forward to your stuff, but man I cant wait to make a call to your VOIP phones.... hold up for my voicemail hahahah... 😀

Sweet antenna at the beginning if the video

Lol the American satellite programming is remarkably similar to our shortwave broadcasts - most all religious programming.

Wish I had the room for a setup like yours. I'd have plenty of dishes in my yard and an entertainment center with many receivers for plenty to watch and listen to. I wish that Muzak was portable.

If i didn't know better I'd say you were in England from the look of your back garden and brick house

What kind of antenna is that first dish you showed? Like brand, model etc. Great content btw, really really interesting! (EDIT)-> And what do you think would be the best resource online for someone wanting to learn how to receive satellite signals (tv etc) in this day and age? Any ideas? I have a v8 finder but not a dish yet. Looking forward to getting into the hobby.

Where to purchase a system for short money? And what about other television standards I think that the foreign ones are (or were!) PAL and SECAM or some such. MANY years ago, I set up my late Dad with a C-Band system, circa 1976. It took me months to put it together, and I had to fabricate some of the parts, both for the motor and as I recall, for horizontal vs vertical (or right hand vs left hand polarization. Every time I worked on it, I hit another problem, and more cost, ouch, even though I was doing it all myself...So many years ago I can't recall) The receiver as a recall was a "Chaparral?" System. I was a Vocational Electronics student in High School. I also set up a shortwave radio connected to remote speakers for reception primarily of the BBC World Service. He really enjoyed that, as he listened to that aboard ship during the war. As we lived in Sandusky, Ohio, our terrestrial reception was exceptional, both TV and FM. So we got Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Windsor and a few Canadian UHF stations and FM from the Chatham and Essex County area. CHYR was one of them. CBC and GlobalTV as well. We had a 50 foot tower with a rotor and a "Channel Master" deep fringe antenna. Nothing was encrypted as far as I can recall on the "C" band then. There were a lot of remote news hookups on the fly, I think people called them "wild feeds." I also vaguely recall a lot of radio feeds like CBC1 via the "Anik?" Satellite? Anyway, this looks like a lot of fun, and I'd like to have a go at it if it isn't too expensive! It looks like I have a lot of catching up to do on the technology, but that's the fun, eh? Radio altimeter frequency? I'll try it on my MiniSA. 73 DE W8LV BILL

Linear, Primefocus, Elevation Altitude, Circular Polarisation

Very Cool!