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14 A Prese-Joumsi Sunday July 5 1992 A Backyard Dishes Catch Satellite Beams Louis Rukeyseri" now own satellite dishes Watching satellite channels Isn't necessarily cheaper than paying for cable television The three major television networks HBO and Showtime and most other popular channels scramble their signals The popular channels charge monthly fees for dcscrambllng rights Dish owners usually pay $10 to $80 a month to receive a few dozen of the most popular cable channels But dish owners can get as many of as few channels as they want Most Mexican and Latin American channels are free So are many Spanish channels several FTcnch channels Learning Chan- nel Court TV C-SPAN 14 religious channels four versions of PBS and Canada's CBC Dish sellers have suffered because the older models that people like Bach own were expensive and are hard to use Bobo thinks better technology Is making that reputation obsolete Most of the new systems are extremely easy to use and prices are falling rapidly Bobo said more they sell the cheaper the he said A typical full-function dish now costs about $2200 Bobo said He expects prices to drop to about $500 in the next few years That's the price of a good conventional antenna Bobo said may go the way of the eight-track tape But dish sellers are hoping Bach is wrong They say their dishes have already freed millions of Americans from reliance on the choices of local broadcast stations and cable systems Increased flexibility is worth spending a little extra time studying instruction manuals the dealers argue With a dish system can pick and choose from everything that's offered" said Doug De Rosa president of Curtis Mathcs Home Entertainment Center which has been selling dishes since the late 1970s are your own cable UJS television networks first used satellite dish antennas in the 1960s By the late 1970s the price of the cheapest dish antennas dropped to $7500 That's when Wally Bobo owner of Bobo's Satellite TV Antenna Service fell in love with the idea that ordinary people could own their own dish antennas The veteran TV repairman began buying dish antennas and building them At one point he had five in his back yard wife told me I was he recalled As more satellites went up and more cable channels began using them dish sales took off Bobo believes several thousand Indian River County residents By ALLISON BELL Journal Writer A satellite dish television antenna came with the house Bert Bach bought in Sebastian three years ago At first Bach had no idea how to use tho technological marvel to watch television But cable wasn't available on his street so he learned He kept calling service people to show him how to program the dish and point It and change channels Today he's comfortable with his dish Operating it is about the same as using a remote control device for a vldcocassette recorder Bach reported don't want to say it's easy but it's not too hard" he said Bach can watch shows beamed down from 21 satellites orbiting over North America Each of the satellites is capable of transmitting up to 24 streams of programming get a bigger Bach said a lot more sports It's great for people who can't get cable or good reception for regular TV" But Bach still sure the dish is worth the trouble of learning to use it cable is available most people would probably prefer he said If Bach is right dish systems Journal tofl photo by ABIeon Brt Wally Botx) says you don't have to be a rocket scientist to use a satellite dish HOT IOOLS HOT WATER! 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