We live outside a very isolated tiny rural village in the Interior of BC. Because of our isolation and the small size of the Village, the services that are normally available to people are non-existent. My wife and I have for decades, depended upon satellite TV for our entertainment.
Normally people who have satellite TV, just call and have a technician come to the house to aim and hook up the dish to the satellite. Living where we do, with no satellite TV technician around, means that I had to set up and aim the dish at the satellite myself. This was no easy feat. A technician would have an instrument to make it easy to find the satellite. I had nothing, I had to use trial and error to aim my dish.
To do so, I had to get a TV set and the satellite receiver out there beside the dish, so I could hook them up to the dish and as I slowly moved the dish up and down and back and forth, I could tell on the TV, when I found the satellite signal. The only area where I could place the dish to hit the satellite, was on the far edge of the paddock of my barn.
So to find the satellite, I first had to string out a long extension cord from the house out to the paddock to power the TV and my satellite receiver. I had to put my big bulky TV (this was before flat-screen TVs) into my wheel barrow, and wheel it out to the satellite dish.
I’m sure that it looked a bit ridiculous to those people driving down our road to see me sitting in the pasture with a big TV set beside me, as I scanned the skies.
I have had to go out there and readjust finding the satellite several different times over the years. One time, after frustrating hours of searching for the satellite and finding nothing, I eventually discovered that the short cable I had used to connect the dish to the satellite receiver, was broken, which was why I never got any signal.
I am always amazed and so very relieved, when I have eventually found the signal up in the sky.
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