I had a friend in the early 90's with C-band, the equipment looked basically the same as this. For many many years this was the only way to watch a lot of American TV in Canada. I believe it wasn't illegal to buy a subscription to an American channel directly from an American supplier, though it was for a Canadian company to sell one. The price of digital satellite boxes fell through the floor in the early 2000's. Likely thanks to cheap one-chip MPEG-2 decoders.
I grew up in the 80's watching Cband.....My father bought one in 84....my grandparents lived in a mobile home on our property and we split 2 receivers to the one dish....we could watch odd polarity channels while they watched even polarity channels and vice versa....changing of satellites became a subject of a lot of arguments though....lol....those receivers were some of the first units and had no remotes....just a large table mounted box to change satellites and a smaller hand held box for changing polarity and channels.....we eventually got a General Instruments receiver because of VideoChiper implementation in which we only ever ran wizard boards in....every week enter new codes.....wait for sound....lol those were the days
Holy cow! After more than a decade of browsing TH-cam for content like this, someone finally made a channel that caters specifically for what I was looking for!
In the late 1990s, there was the 4DTV receiver which receives both Videocipher II and Digicipher programming. In your hometown there was StarChoice (now Shaw Direct) which had an identical program guide to that of 4DTV, as well as ExpressVu (Dish Network Canada).
I guess im the only one who had a Fujitsu Reciever.... Those things were built to last! At least a year or so after they're initial launch. Those first era Fujitsu's seemed to attract lightning and was always getting zapped But after they made some upgrades, those recievers were amazing and easy to use. That's my own personal opinion though and we all like what we like. Thanks Robbie
Mini dishes don't do polarity because its circular, (either clockwise or counter), C/Ku use horizontal/vertical and over the course of the arc, can drift a little and need to be adjusted slightly. The channel numbers are like that because odd/even switch polarity and its quicker to scan channels on the same polarity so the polarator doesn't have to keep moving (and wear out). I'm still trying to find a picture of the Ma Com M1 receiver (silver unit with a huge knob on the right going from 1-24...haven't seen one since '89 when it was at my grandparents place.)
I put up my dish in 2003 and was subscribing to Analog channels (I could go to a webpage, pick the ones I wanted, enter credit card info and 10 seconds later be watching TV), but I have a EchoStar SRD-5000 so I didn't have an external descrambler, but generally, you put the baseband out jack into the descrambler, and then ran it from the descrambler to the TV since free TV would just pass through without processing. VCII actually had descrete digital stereo sound, so the audio was awesome. Currently, I use the Echostar for a positioner because I can control and view the position and polarity from the front panel so I don't have to have a TV on to see the settings (I have a DVB-S2 card in my computer and a book size DVB-S2 external receiver).
I remember when they came out with LNB's. Before that we would have to run thick coaxial cable about 3 meters long from the LNA/Feedhorn assembly down to the block converter. Way better when they combined the block converter / LNA together! ;)
Yeah some people think still used that set up but I prefer the more easier way of just getting a newer lmb and not having to have a polarization motor to deal with
I still have my c band receiver and digital side car where you got the digital channels through it.I gave over 500 dollars for the receiver and another 350 for the side car and my 12 foot mesh dish 850 dollars now it makes a great paper weight.Bought a free to air sat receiver brand new off e bay 22 dollars lnd 30 dollars and the switch for 5 dollars
That's an "N" connector on the LNA. More similar to a PL259 or UHF connector than a BNC. N connectors have very good impedance matching which is critical at 4ghz. Once the signal is block converted to one ghz or less, the dreadful F connector is adequate.
I remember going outside and cranking the dish to move to a different satellite.. and watch out for noise on the reds and certain colors, f3, f1 galaxy 1, galaxy 5, telstar 303, Dr Gene Scott, ahh the good ol days....
The sad news is with dr. Scott dr. Scott was on Galaxy 19 for years and just up till about a month or so ago they shut down the university Network transmission
Yeah, back in the good old days each C-Band satellite had 24 analog video transponders and each transponder could carry a number of subcarrier audio feeds in addition. Only a few of them had all transponders lit up 24/7. Galaxy 1 was the most popular with Satcom F3 being another. The only stuff that was scrambled in the early 1980's was a handful of Canadian TV stations, horse racing, some porn channels and NASA when the space shuttle did missions for the DoD. All of the regular programming and backhauls were in the clear though. The VC2 was the beginning of the end of C-Band.
But from what I understand a lot of people had vc2 decoders. I think the final nail in the coffin is when things went digital. And the receivers must have been quite expensive for the time. Compared to today were a receivers under $100
@@RobbieStrike I would agree with you on digital being the C-Band death knoll. That, and the arrival of services like USSB, DirecTV, Primestar and Dish Network drove it out the door. Yes, VC2's arrival did some damage, but remember, people were immediately able to hack it. Then General Instrument (which bought out M/A-COM's home business around 86 or so) released the VC2+/VCRS system and gave it some life for a long time after. But overtime, everyone moved to digital and it became pointless to own a Videocipher unless you wanted to watch the Weather Channel, which was the last service standing.
Thats not a LNB, Its an LNA. Its so big because the downconverter was needed on those old ones to convert from the 4GHz to the 0.9 to 1.4 Ghz usable by the receiver (too much loss to run 4GHz over coax.) LNBs have a built in downconverter and don't need the extra box.
Keep in mind that those old LNAs are incredibly bad and noisy (terrible gain), and it would be better to just find a low noise LNB and just bolt it to the feedhorn, or even just get a LNBF and not have to worry about the polarotor. www.ebay.com/itm/C-Band-LNB-LNBF-DMS-International-BSC421-Single-Digital-Satellite-HD-FTA-C-Band-/141427654434
I did not get a C band dish until around 2013 Before I had Ku Band for a few years. I always wanted one as a kid. But did not know anyone who used on very well.
@@RobbieStrikeit was a show on a Galaxy bird that was a satellite home shipping network, industry news and VideoCipher hacking. I used to watch archives on TH-cam when I couldn't fall asleep
The Bigger the better for Linear KU band some of those expensive units have tiny dish antennas and probably will not work well even though they are expensive. Your best bet would be a tripod and possible a SatHero meter th-cam.com/video/w6BZP8AmB64/w-d-xo.html
The inner-diameter is very important it defines the under-frequency from the LNB. For example the C-Band lowest Frequency is 3.7 GHz till 4.2GHz (highest) and the hole of the wave-guide must be - let'S do the math => fc = (1.8412 * c)/(2*PI*r). fc = cutoff frequency; c = speed of light [m/s]; PI = 3.1415...and so on; r = inner Radius of the Circular Wave Guide. lets calc => (1.8412*c)/(2*PI()*3cm)= 2.9303GHz lowest cutoff frequenzy. If the diameter is smaller then 6cm the cutoff frequency goes up and the under bands are not receivable. Lets calc what is the diameter for 3.7GHz lowest-cutoff. r = (1.8412 * c)/(2*PI*fc) => 2.376cm = r * 2 = 4.7519cm inner-diameter will be the lower-cutoff frequency. But in real nobody will put the low-cutoff on this edge! If you watch your C/Ku-Band LNB so the Ku-Band LNB looks truth the tube of the C-Band LNB. That mean that the Ku-Band LNB only can see a little part from the dish - like looking into a 6cm small tube. In sum that dish area for the Ku-Band is approximative like a 60cm - 80cm dish depend on the f/D of your dish. Best Regards Volker from Vienna
When I get my first house at age 30 I had the idea of having a C band satellite in my backyard using a 2007 Motorola receiver and other equipment like a discrambler or antenna rotation device I've seen many people using satellite television for older properties like houses ETC I love the Analog equipment but it's old and I don't no if there's anything wrong with it its sad that the government turned off Analog TV
ottawaoctane man that is so awesome. I install and troubleshoot satellite dishes for a career, but also as a hobby and obsession. Love it and love your channel!!
That's video cipher 2 plus descrambler the last generation cband descrambler. ..made because it has a card slot on back of descrambler for future upgrades the original video cipher was hacked and chip so general instruments made the descrambler pirated proof and added the card slot this descrambler type was never pirated and lasted till the very end they no longer use video cipher descrambler any more
There is not much programing up on satellite in cband analog anymore most went to digital technology and there is no free HBO or cable TV programs up on the birds,in cband analog. ..some program is up in digital format free to air but not good channels like they use to be back in the days ....the little one is ku band the large on is cband
The thing is there is not the premium cable channels anymore, But there are actually more channels now than they were in the analog days. It seems to be growing with all of the diginets coming online for over the air sub channels. It would be interesting if there was a actual subscription service for C Band. I name a lot of the free in the clear channels that I can get with my 8 footer in this video th-cam.com/video/5twQ3sAHDAo/w-d-xo.html
I DID A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH FOR YOU, NO CHARGE "Widely used in the satellite communications world, Ku-band has been a popular choice for direct broadcasting since NBC began using it in 1983. Services are largely used for high-powered satellites in digital TV to include things like news feeds, educational networks, teleconferences, sports and other backhauls, entertainment programming, and international programming. It depends on where in the world it’s being utilized." www.satmodo.com/blog/2019/11/25/ku-band-and-its-use-in-satellite-communications/
i must say you could get cool channels without the box and buy only the channels you want.that was cool but i broke too many arms so my my dad was fed up.
My cband dish back in 1993-1998 my remote went through walls to receiver back then i pick up canada on anik1 back then even all galaxy classes i remember cartoon network cameout before ever hit cable back in 1993 when i was 12 and 13 i remeber back in 1993,i use watch all live feeds even Oj Simpson trial on live feeds even hobble space telescope watching space guy repairing it the price was high back then i got watch the live feeds i had one those black cband mash dishs back then this was before directv came out in 1996 also dish network came in like 1998.
the phone jack wasn't for pay per view the phone jack was for the codes comoing from a person shat put it ithe codes out and it went into the box.in the beginning you would do it manualy with those numbers you were showing but once decoded you could see pay per views and everything.i miss ours i broke to many arms when i was young.
I had that descrambler back in the late 80s and early 90s... How did the guy know what numbers to punch in? I remember we paid a guy to come once a month and input the new numbers. There was no real internet back then, how did he get them? The only thing I could think of is that he worked for a sat company?
we got the codes to get sound back on video cypher by using fax machine from co called sat King from Canada back in the day.our fax machine was our internet back then
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You would have spent $800 in 1985 to purchase that M/A-Com receiver (it wasn't the best one they made), another $600 for the descrambler and maybe $500 for that piss-poor dish moving device - Houston Tracker was the premium manufacturer of those units in the 1980s. It's a shame the dude who created this video didn't know what he was talking about, but... Thousands of people on TH-cam don't know what they are talking about, so - he's got a lot of company. This is like watching a pretend archeologist telling us about fossils and not knowing what the hell he's talking about. Useless video altogether.
I had a friend in the early 90's with C-band, the equipment looked basically the same as this. For many many years this was the only way to watch a lot of American TV in Canada. I believe it wasn't illegal to buy a subscription to an American channel directly from an American supplier, though it was for a Canadian company to sell one.
The price of digital satellite boxes fell through the floor in the early 2000's. Likely thanks to cheap one-chip MPEG-2 decoders.
I grew up in the 80's watching Cband.....My father bought one in 84....my grandparents lived in a mobile home on our property and we split 2 receivers to the one dish....we could watch odd polarity channels while they watched even polarity channels and vice versa....changing of satellites became a subject of a lot of arguments though....lol....those receivers were some of the first units and had no remotes....just a large table mounted box to change satellites and a smaller hand held box for changing polarity and channels.....we eventually got a General Instruments receiver because of VideoChiper implementation in which we only ever ran wizard boards in....every week enter new codes.....wait for sound....lol those were the days
Holy cow! After more than a decade of browsing TH-cam for content like this, someone finally made a channel that caters specifically for what I was looking for!
Dilo en español se :v
I found an old iq videocipher descrambler videopal in my mom's old stuff. Is there a market for these
Im getting 4 free satellite dishes tomorrow!I am excited to start messing around with this stuff!
In the late 1990s, there was the 4DTV receiver which receives both Videocipher II and Digicipher programming. In your hometown there was StarChoice (now Shaw Direct) which had an identical program guide to that of 4DTV, as well as ExpressVu (Dish Network Canada).
The receiver I had as a kid was a General Instruments VideoCipher II. Locked to G19. Tuner and descrambler in one.
I guess im the only one who had a Fujitsu Reciever....
Those things were built to last!
At least a year or so after they're initial launch. Those first era Fujitsu's seemed to attract lightning and was always getting zapped
But after they made some upgrades, those recievers were amazing and easy to use.
That's my own personal opinion though and we all like what we like.
Thanks Robbie
Good video lots of info .the power output wires go to the servo motor on the LNB enjoy your video s
Mini dishes don't do polarity because its circular, (either clockwise or counter), C/Ku use horizontal/vertical and over the course of the arc, can drift a little and need to be adjusted slightly. The channel numbers are like that because odd/even switch polarity and its quicker to scan channels on the same polarity so the polarator doesn't have to keep moving (and wear out). I'm still trying to find a picture of the Ma Com M1 receiver (silver unit with a huge knob on the right going from 1-24...haven't seen one since '89 when it was at my grandparents place.)
I put up my dish in 2003 and was subscribing to Analog channels (I could go to a webpage, pick the ones I wanted, enter credit card info and 10 seconds later be watching TV), but I have a EchoStar SRD-5000 so I didn't have an external descrambler, but generally, you put the baseband out jack into the descrambler, and then ran it from the descrambler to the TV since free TV would just pass through without processing. VCII actually had descrete digital stereo sound, so the audio was awesome.
Currently, I use the Echostar for a positioner because I can control and view the position and polarity from the front panel so I don't have to have a TV on to see the settings (I have a DVB-S2 card in my computer and a book size DVB-S2 external receiver).
I remember when they came out with LNB's. Before that we would have to run thick coaxial cable about 3 meters long from the LNA/Feedhorn assembly down to the block converter. Way better when they combined the block converter / LNA together! ;)
Yeah some people think still used that set up but I prefer the more easier way of just getting a newer lmb and not having to have a polarization motor to deal with
I still have my c band receiver and digital side car where you got the digital channels through it.I gave over 500 dollars for the receiver and another 350 for the side car and my 12 foot mesh dish 850 dollars now it makes a great paper weight.Bought a free to air sat receiver brand new off e bay 22 dollars lnd 30 dollars and the switch for 5 dollars
this very much satisfies my 5am random curiosity
I grew up in a rural area, and a lot of people had these, usually people with a lot of money. I specifically remember that VideoCipher box.
That's an "N" connector on the LNA. More similar to a PL259 or UHF connector than a BNC. N connectors have very good impedance matching which is critical at 4ghz. Once the signal is block converted to one ghz or less, the dreadful F connector is adequate.
I remember going outside and cranking the dish to move to a different satellite.. and watch out for noise on the reds and certain colors, f3, f1 galaxy 1, galaxy 5, telstar 303, Dr Gene Scott, ahh the good ol days....
The sad news is with dr. Scott dr. Scott was on Galaxy 19 for years and just up till about a month or so ago they shut down the university Network transmission
That's very interesting. Is that pink Module removeable from the receiver?
Yeah, back in the good old days each C-Band satellite had 24 analog video transponders and each transponder could carry a number of subcarrier audio feeds in addition. Only a few of them had all transponders lit up 24/7. Galaxy 1 was the most popular with Satcom F3 being another. The only stuff that was scrambled in the early 1980's was a handful of Canadian TV stations, horse racing, some porn channels and NASA when the space shuttle did missions for the DoD. All of the regular programming and backhauls were in the clear though. The VC2 was the beginning of the end of C-Band.
But from what I understand a lot of people had vc2 decoders. I think the final nail in the coffin is when things went digital. And the receivers must have been quite expensive for the time. Compared to today were a receivers under $100
@@RobbieStrike I would agree with you on digital being the C-Band death knoll. That, and the arrival of services like USSB, DirecTV, Primestar and Dish Network drove it out the door. Yes, VC2's arrival did some damage, but remember, people were immediately able to hack it. Then General Instrument (which bought out M/A-COM's home business around 86 or so) released the VC2+/VCRS system and gave it some life for a long time after. But overtime, everyone moved to digital and it became pointless to own a Videocipher unless you wanted to watch the Weather Channel, which was the last service standing.
Thats not a LNB, Its an LNA. Its so big because the downconverter was needed on those old ones to convert from the 4GHz to the 0.9 to 1.4 Ghz usable by the receiver (too much loss to run 4GHz over coax.) LNBs have a built in downconverter and don't need the extra box.
Keep in mind that those old LNAs are incredibly bad and noisy (terrible gain), and it would be better to just find a low noise LNB and just bolt it to the feedhorn, or even just get a LNBF and not have to worry about the polarotor. www.ebay.com/itm/C-Band-LNB-LNBF-DMS-International-BSC421-Single-Digital-Satellite-HD-FTA-C-Band-/141427654434
You can move an actuator with a 9v battery. Its slow, but if you need to retract one in a pinch, it will work.
the older satellite dishes just cooler in my opinion
and they easy to get black boxes for like the pink board you see.
The polarity switch has nothing to do with vertical/horizontal polarity. It changes video polarity which means it is C and Ku band compatible.
Where can i buy this old receiver??? I want to place it to my collection.
Plz say what technology in the reciever
Do you know anyone that experimented with DIY satellite dishes back then?
I did not get a C band dish until around 2013 Before I had Ku Band for a few years. I always wanted one as a kid. But did not know anyone who used on very well.
Great channel. Remember Greensheet?
Greensheet?
@@RobbieStrikeit was a show on a Galaxy bird that was a satellite home shipping network, industry news and VideoCipher hacking. I used to watch archives on TH-cam when I couldn't fall asleep
@@loganmacgyver2625 I seen some of that stuff is is interesting. Keep enjoying brother!
hey is there any portable dishes like the direct tv has that people put n there rvs or set outside to watch dish and watch fta stuff
The Bigger the better for Linear KU band some of those expensive units have tiny dish antennas and probably will not work well even though they are expensive. Your best bet would be a tripod and possible a SatHero meter th-cam.com/video/w6BZP8AmB64/w-d-xo.html
The inner-diameter is very important it defines the under-frequency from the LNB. For example the C-Band lowest Frequency is 3.7 GHz till 4.2GHz (highest) and the hole of the wave-guide must be - let'S do the math => fc = (1.8412 * c)/(2*PI*r). fc = cutoff frequency; c = speed of light [m/s]; PI = 3.1415...and so on; r = inner Radius of the Circular Wave Guide. lets calc => (1.8412*c)/(2*PI()*3cm)= 2.9303GHz lowest cutoff frequenzy. If the diameter is smaller then 6cm the cutoff frequency goes up and the under bands are not receivable. Lets calc what is the diameter for 3.7GHz lowest-cutoff. r = (1.8412 * c)/(2*PI*fc) => 2.376cm = r * 2 = 4.7519cm inner-diameter will be the lower-cutoff frequency. But in real nobody will put the low-cutoff on this edge! If you watch your C/Ku-Band LNB so the Ku-Band LNB looks truth the tube of the C-Band LNB. That mean that the Ku-Band LNB only can see a little part from the dish - like looking into a 6cm small tube. In sum that dish area for the Ku-Band is approximative like a 60cm - 80cm dish depend on the f/D of your dish. Best Regards Volker from Vienna
When I get my first house at age 30 I had the idea of having a C band satellite in my backyard using a 2007 Motorola receiver and other equipment like a discrambler or antenna rotation device I've seen many people using satellite television for older properties like houses ETC I love the Analog equipment but it's old and I don't no if there's anything wrong with it its sad that the government turned off Analog TV
It is as simple, You can fit over 40 channels where 1 analog channel would fit.
Do you have experience as a satellite technician/dish installer?? I love your channel!
No I am self taught, This is my hobby. I grew up in the 80's when space was popular and always found this stuff fascinating.
ottawaoctane man that is so awesome. I install and troubleshoot satellite dishes for a career, but also as a hobby and obsession. Love it and love your channel!!
That's video cipher 2 plus descrambler the last generation cband descrambler. ..made because it has a card slot on back of descrambler for future upgrades the original video cipher was hacked and chip so general instruments made the descrambler pirated proof and added the card slot this descrambler type was never pirated and lasted till the very end they no longer use video cipher descrambler any more
There is not much programing up on satellite in cband analog anymore most went to digital technology and there is no free HBO or cable TV programs up on the birds,in cband analog. ..some program is up in digital format free to air but not good channels like they use to be back in the days ....the little one is ku band the large on is cband
The thing is there is not the premium cable channels anymore, But there are actually more channels now than they were in the analog days. It seems to be growing with all of the diginets coming online for over the air sub channels. It would be interesting if there was a actual subscription service for C Band. I name a lot of the free in the clear channels that I can get with my 8 footer in this video th-cam.com/video/5twQ3sAHDAo/w-d-xo.html
When did Ku-band begin?
I DID A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH FOR YOU, NO CHARGE
"Widely used in the satellite communications world, Ku-band has been a popular choice for direct broadcasting since NBC began using it in 1983. Services are largely used for high-powered satellites in digital TV to include things like news feeds, educational networks, teleconferences, sports and other backhauls, entertainment programming, and international programming. It depends on where in the world it’s being utilized." www.satmodo.com/blog/2019/11/25/ku-band-and-its-use-in-satellite-communications/
Hi,I am new to satellite hobby. I intend to learn a few things if it is ok
this stuff he's showing is about 25 years old becauce we had the same decoder or black box.
i must say you could get cool channels without the box and buy only the channels you want.that was cool but i broke too many arms so my my dad was fed up.
Back in 2017 C-SPAN was still on Analog
Very cool! 👍 🇺🇲
My cband dish back in 1993-1998 my remote went through walls to receiver back then i pick up canada on anik1 back then even all galaxy classes i remember cartoon network cameout before ever hit cable back in 1993 when i was 12 and 13 i remeber back in 1993,i use watch all live feeds even Oj Simpson trial on live feeds even hobble space telescope watching space guy repairing it the price was high back then i got watch the live feeds i had one those black cband mash dishs back then this was before directv came out in 1996 also dish network came in like 1998.
We had one in the 80s i watched everything on there. First place i saw boobs
A lot of people back then we're hacking video Cypher 2
Old is good...
That is an LNA not an LNB.
the phone jack wasn't for pay per view the phone jack was for the codes comoing from a person shat put it ithe codes out and it went into the box.in the beginning you would do it manualy with those numbers you were showing but once decoded you could see pay per views and everything.i miss ours i broke to many arms when i was young.
I had that descrambler back in the late 80s and early 90s... How did the guy know what numbers to punch in? I remember we paid a guy to come once a month and input the new numbers. There was no real internet back then, how did he get them? The only thing I could think of is that he worked for a sat company?
we got the codes to get sound back on video cypher by using fax machine from co called sat King from Canada back in the day.our fax machine was our internet back then
@@donbest5024 Thanks for the reply! Rusts awesome to finally know the answer to something I've been curious about for so long.
@@donbest5024 and I bet that was a side shady business for a guy who worked at a tv station or cable company who was In the know as new codes came out
I remember americn extcy xxx channel back in the day you didn't need no sound on that channel you could make your own
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You would have spent $800 in 1985 to purchase that M/A-Com receiver (it wasn't the best one they made), another $600 for the descrambler and maybe $500 for that piss-poor dish moving device - Houston Tracker was the premium manufacturer of those units in the 1980s.
It's a shame the dude who created this video didn't know what he was talking about, but... Thousands of people on TH-cam don't know what they are talking about, so - he's got a lot of company. This is like watching a pretend archeologist telling us about fossils and not knowing what the hell he's talking about. Useless video altogether.