European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 dishing up to via satellite by Peter Kaplan new York times in 1979 the luxury department store in offered a satellite dish Antenna it promised could provide a Cornucopia of television not one of them was but the satellite dish had entered the in the last six years More than a million americans have bought satellite dish now starting at and pointed them toward the dishes can intercept a volume of programming far exceeding that of even the most Complete Cable television catching signals from As Many As 150 some of these signals Are not intended for the viewing such As a sports event not being broadcast in the area where it is taking business meetings in one an unsanctioned View of the president in the White the principle on which the dishes work is relatively simple an installed dish is calibrated to Point exactly in the direction of various satellites that hover at an Altitude of around called or geosynchronous they travel through space at the same Speed at which the Earth dish antennas can pick up signals by training on a fixed Point in the the growth of the Industry is with to dishes being sold each some Industry analysts expect that As Many As five million May be in operation by the end of the the arrival of the has produced a variety of Legal and environmental among the issues Are the following e particularly Cable whose revenues Are drawn exclusively from monthly service Call the use of the dishes piracy and Are retaliating by scrambling their signals to prevent unauthorized e owners of copyright such As the National football have gone to court to limit the extent to which signals picked up by dish antennas can be e several Hundred faced with complaints Over the aesthetics of the have passed ordinances curbing their in the first area of the new York racing authority is scrambling All its satellite and the broadcast networks Are working on their own scrambling a leading Cable television Home Box said it had invested million to develop a scrambling system designed to prevent dish owners from intercepting programming without paying for the company says it is already scrambling several hours of programming a but since it wants to build an audience among the increasing number of dish it has commissioned the building of a de scrambling device that would be sold to Consumers for owners of satellite led by the society for private and commercial Earth a lobbying Are seeking Laws to restrain Erma Bombeck Home Box office from scrambling its they do not contend that they deserve to get services at no but that the airwaves Are another Frontier that should not be tampered dish owners say that rather than tampering with the receiving the broadcasters should build Revenue by including advertising in the in the Turner broadcasting which produces the Cable news has begun a Campaign to instruct dish owners to Send in a month voluntarily for monitoring its Turner has received a few letters Inthis but representatives of the company say that its main purpose is to establish a Legal claim to its a Cable company in Denver said that up to 5 percent of its Market had been lost to dish owners who Felt that they Only had to make on investment and then get programs free the Rise in the popularity of satellite dishes followed the Boom in Cable although at first it was confined to a few video engineers and residents of Rural areas who were largely without television of any but Chuck the vice president of the owners lobbying group said that starting in 1983 about 30 percent of All sales had been made to Urban and suburban the second area of complications involves Legal to give dish owners Legal Barry an Arizona Republican who has a satellite dish on his cosponsored Section 705 of the communications which was passed by Congress last to guarantee owners the right to intercept any unscrambled broadcasts they can pick up from their Terry Goldwater legislative counsel and the chief architect of the protective we began with the stance that if you want to let a signal drop on my i have a right to look at when Legal Battles have Arisen they have been Over economically valuable the National football league became distressed about what it called the raiding of television images by satellite users when several Miami bar owners charged admission for blacked out telecasts of the the league has hired a Washington Law firm and received a permanent injunction against that dishes have a reach that goes beyond when the american Telephone Telegraph for transmits a video business conference from one City to it has to scramble the signal to make it the kind of information that is said Peter an at t marketing is encrypted and then decoded at the far end so that the video equivalent of computer hackers cant get dish owners Are neither corporate spies nor voyeurs they have just found out How to see the third major problem brought about by the proliferation of dishes is on the environmental antennas on local rooftops and in backyards have Given Rise to an onslaught of zoning regulations for aesthetic in dish owners have organized and successfully lobbied both for Federal legislation they want and for proposed rules from the Federal communication commission that would preempt zoning ordinances by showing that they discriminate against dish owners right to new York times satellite dishes can intercept far More program volume than even the most Complete Cable to some people think sitting Down at a typewriter Day after Day to write a column is pretty How Many times can you pick up a waste Basket with your Knees to firm up your stomach Muscles How Many necklaces made out of paper clips can you Wear at one time How Many times can you count your Teeth with your Tongue and leave messages on your sons answering make me a grandmother i want a Job where you order lunch from a i want a Job where you can go out and meet interesting i want to walk in the Sun and live i want Vanna Whites Job on wheel of what a you sleep go the go into make and then for 30 minutes smile and flip Over vowels and no not a lot of Why  i have fallen into something like that Charles Kurats Job on on the Road  be bad to ride along in an air conditioned see a Guy by the Side of the Road whittling famous presidents out of Peanut Stop the Van and do 20 minutes with Call it a Day and take off the next morning to find another after a bad i fantasize about How wonderful it would be to be photo editor of readers you make a couple of decisions a month and its All you can relax until the next Michener Book comes out and needs something graphic to dont Tell me theres anyone in this world who Hast lusted after the Job of Hairdresser for Tina Grace Jones and Cyndi youd have the Glitz of Showbiz Groupie standing in the wings every night waiting to be and maybe once every six they Call your name and you whip a can of Spray paint or Shellack out of your handbag and your Job is done for another six for sheer How about a Job of scientist for every time they want to change their for youd be called upon to come up with the rest of the time is Beach duty at of the ultimate dream Job for me has always been the one held by Jane who goes to Afri sits on a Hillside and monitors the behaviour of Goril she never has to fight dress for Success or defrost Frozen hamburger in the dry Cycle of the dish she just sits there Day in and Day out watching these furry animals eat after the Day Ive had it sounds like a Day at the c los Angeles times Syndicate