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From: bill@crystal.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Gold Coast Distributers
Message-ID: <381@crystal.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:28:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 13:28:06 1984
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> > The gifts are:
> > 1) An 18 food cabin power boat.
> > 2) A Sony home entertainment center (projection TV, VCR and stereo).
> > 3) A cable TV satellite dish.
> > 4) An IBM PC jr with monitor and printer.
> > 5) A 1985 Cadillac.
> 
>    From information I have seen on the net before I think it is
>    3) The cable TV satellite dish
> 
>    This dish is not your standard full size $2-3K type of dish but is in
>    fact a small (1-2ft diam) cheap receiving dish with no accompanying
>    sophisticated electronics worth maybe fifty bucks.   Don't expect
>    a high quality signal from this one.  Of course with all those vitamins
>    to eat you probably won't have much time to watch TV anyway.

Note that the list says DISH, not DISH WITH ASSOCIATED ELECTRONICS.  You'll
get to buy your own down-converter, etc, plus a super amp to boost the
signals from your 12" dish to something usable :-)  -- a spun
aluminum dish without mounting stuff or electronics can be had for around
twenty bucks or so.

-- 
	William Cox
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	bill@uwisc
	...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill