[BC] It wasn't the President this time.

[Chuck Lakaytis]

Way back in the early 80's I helped a friend install a C band receiver at
his remote ranch.  Everyone was amazed and were perusing one of the early
programming guides.

There must have been twenty people in the living room looking and commenting
at this new wonder.

I will always remember when a religious broadcaster signed off.  There was a
brief ID and test pattern then a transition to black.

Then the next program came up.  From out of the surf appeared a blonde with
the most enormous breasts and no bottom garment.

"Hi it's time for the EROS NETWORK".

Some folks were shocked.  The others put more beer on ice and decided that
this was a whole lot better then the very fuzzy NBC signal from fifty miles
away.

I remember that when the wind really came up Jay had to park his pick up
next to the dish and guy the antenna to the bumper.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 301 4339 (cell)


-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:10 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [BC] It wasn't the President this time.

A fellow I met one time had a 'C' band downlink at home before they were 
anything but professionally available (he was in the profession).

He told me that Johnny Carson's live feed from Burbank to NY for taping in 
NY was great fun during the breaks. If one of the famous 'purple' comedians 
was on, the stories would fly and everyone was in tears from laughter until 
the 'ON AIR' light came back on. Everyone straightened up instantly. That, 
also, is professionalism!

(Too bad he did not tape any of it - this was before home VCR's)

Jeff.Johnson at goodnews.net,CSRE
RFPROOF.COM

>The real fun ones are the SNG satellite channels.  Many moons ago when I
was
>doing SCPC installs for radio stations I used to tune across Westar and
>watch Max Robinson's ABC feed from Chicago to NY.  When he wasnt on, he had
>quite a colorful vocabulary.
>Paul Smith
>Sarasota, FL

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