Re: Standard Agile IRD-I: HOW Obsolete??

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:59:01 -0800, "Sal M. Onella"
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>"Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I'm not a satellite TV user (yet).
>>
>> I acquired a few Standard Agile IRD-I Videocipher RS units recently.
>> I'm sure these are older units, but can these models still be used to
>> descramble satellite TV signals?
>>
>> What other equipment would I need, at a minimum, to set up my own
>> satellite TVRO system?  I know I'd need a dish, but how LARGE a dish
>> would I need to work with the IRD-I?
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>BUD Sat-TV is in decline, but  still viable.  For example, I just hooked my
>Satcruiser digital receiver to my C-band dish and was pleasantly surprised
>to get a lot of nice pictures from my 1985 (!) electronics.
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>First, hook up a TV to the IRD and see if you can bring up the VC RS info
>screen.  If the battery on the board is dead, you have an instant repair
>bill to get the

Unless it is a commercial/headend VCII+/RS receiver, you won't bring
up the screens without a VC lock, which requires a dish et al.

>main board replaced, if there's anybody to do it any more.  Without VC RS,
>you

It might be a module of some sort.

>only can watch unscrambled signals, mostly shopping & preachers but also
>some
>news and sports feeds. The TV networks are on-and-off scramblers. AFAIK,
>there's no Videocipher on Ku-band, so we're talking strictly C-band, "Big
>Ugly
>Dish," right?
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