Jack, around the same time period pop did the same. He was the kind of guy that would strike up a conversation with a tree if he had the chance. Anyway, he was at a fast food joint and saw these 2 'huge' guys. He started talking to them finding out they were ex NFL players. They had a business installing satt. dishes. Dad bought one. It was like you described, about 10'or 12' across. At first all of the content was free. Turn the dish a bit and you could pick up all kinds of crazy stuff. THEN, they started doing random scrambles. The installers sold him a 'descrambler'. It was one of those not exactly legal kind of things but it worked. THEN, that thing started to be scrambled and there were some 'trick's to keep the channels tuned in. After a quite a few years everything was scrambled and it became yard art.