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RamFan503 said:
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Most everyone had one on top of their TV , or something similar

it's how you changed the direction on the TV antenna that was mounted on the top of your roof , so you could pick up one of those three channels we could get back in 70's

depending on where you lived , they might have had a different model , but everyone I knew had one of these ,


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR0FNET_0p0
 
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here in rural Iowa , where there wasn't any TV stations close

we had to mount the antenna on a 15 foot pole , mounted in the very peak of your roof

we got CBS out of Mankato Minnesota , which is to the North East , and ABC and NBC out of Sioux City Iowa, which is in the complete opposite direction to the South West

so if we wanted to switch from CBS to ABC , we would have to get up , turn the antenna dial to the direction we wanted , then turn the knob on the TV , then wait for the antenna on the roof to move to the right direction

go times
 
IowaRam said:
Most everyone had one on top of their TV , or something similar

it's how you changed the direction on the TV antenna that was mounted on the top of your roof , so you could pick up one of those three channels we could get back in 70's

depending on where you lived , they might have had a different model , but everyone I knew had one of these ,


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR0FNET_0p0
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Ah. Now I remember. We lived in a small town in CA and had one somewhat clear channel and two that were pretty snowy. My dad decided to buy one of those huge Satelite dishes that we had to put on the hillside above the house. The thing was like 10 foot across and had an electric motor that was supposed to stay with the Satelite you had it tuned to. But if you wanted some of the other channels, you had to tune it with a box like that to point to another of the three available satellites. I don’t recall it ever working very well and that dish sat on that hillside unused for probably a decade or so. Cable didn’t come to our house for some time so my dad worked it out with our neighbor down the road to put up a splitter to share his cable signal which meant running coax about a quarter mile to our house. The neighbor worked for PGE so he ran the cable on the phone poles using his cherry picker. That was back in the party line days too.
 
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RamFan503 said:
Ah. Now I remember. We lived in a small town in CA and had one somewhat clear channel and two that were pretty snowy. My dad decided to buy one of those huge Satelite dishes that we had to put on the hillside above the house. The thing was like 10 foot across and had an electric motor that was supposed to stay with the Satelite you had it tuned to. But if you wanted some of the other channels, you had to tune it with a box like that to point to another of the three available satellites. I don’t recall it ever working very well and that dish sat on that hillside unused for probably a decade or so. Cable didn’t come to our house for some time so my dad worked it out with our neighbor down the road to put up a splitter to share his cable signal which meant running coax about a quarter mile to our house. The neighbor worked for PGE so he ran the cable on the phone poles using his cherry picker. That was back in the party line days too.
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we never had one of those huge Satellite dishes , but back in high school , I had some friends , farm kids that had one , always remember they had like a 300 page tv guide , that would tell you what was on and what direction to turn the the dish
 
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IowaRam said:
we never had one of those huge Satellite dishes , but back in high school , I had some friends in high school , farm kids that had one , always remember they had like a 300 page tv guide , that would tell you what was on an d what direction to tuen the dish
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Yeah - those things were stupid complicated for just wanting to watch TV. It was like TV had to become an obsessive hobby in order to get it dialed in.
 
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IowaRam said:
some of the arguments that when on at our house over who had to get up and change the channel

there was four of us kids , all trying to make one of the others change the channel

cant tell you how many times we all sat through an hour of Dallas , because no one would budge.....................lol


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq3UsfQ5CoY&t=118s


good times !!!!!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKX3tWaOew
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Yep. I feel yuh. Two sisters and a brother here.
 
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