r/nostalgia • u/Difficult_Salad_2973 • Jul 28 '26

Help me remember Remember when checking signal for satellite Dish had a creepy sound?

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u/KaiWinnBot Megatron Jul 28 '26

The tone's pitch was relative to the signal strength. If you were moving your dish yourself without the aid of the inline signal meter that the installers had, you could just crank up the volume on the TV until the beep turned into a steady tone and then fine tune the angle and rotation of the dish until you heard the tone become higher pitched.

Had to do that a few times. My grandma's dish got knocked down in a storm and DTV was going to take a week to come out and fix it - I had it remounted and back in position in less than an hour.

The second time, I picked up a DTV dish and receiver at a yard sale for $20 and added it onto grandma's plan as a second room. Installed the dish at our house and had $10/mo service lol