Galaxy IV failed and if you had a paging base station with a Channel Master dish that was shared with other carriers you got screwed today along with having to realign all of your satellite endpoints.
There were some sites that techs got to the site, ran new IFL cable to their cabinet sat receiver, realigned the dish, got on the air then left for the next site. Since it was a shared dish the next carrier would arrive, run new IFL cable (if you had enough) and move the dish to their recovery satellite, and this would go on for days.
I actually heard Galaxy IV fail when a news broadcast went off the air in the late afternoon when I was working in Phoenix.
Most gas stations had VSATs on Galaxy IV and you had to pay cash or manually charge with a slip in the station to buy gas.
This wasb efore widespread acceptance of cellular phones and it was a pretty big deal.
There were some sites that techs got to the site, ran new IFL cable to their cabinet sat receiver, realigned the dish, got on the air then left for the next site. Since it was a shared dish the next carrier would arrive, run new IFL cable (if you had enough) and move the dish to their recovery satellite, and this would go on for days.
I actually heard Galaxy IV fail when a news broadcast went off the air in the late afternoon when I was working in Phoenix.
Most gas stations had VSATs on Galaxy IV and you had to pay cash or manually charge with a slip in the station to buy gas.
This wasb efore widespread acceptance of cellular phones and it was a pretty big deal.
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