Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!hou4b!mat From: mat@hou4b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv,net.legal Subject: Re: Illegal satellite dish cleanup in San Francisco area? Message-ID: <1084@hou4b.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 22:44:02 EDT Article-I.D.: hou4b.1084 Posted: Wed Aug 8 22:44:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 05:07:00 EDT References: <372@vortex.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 16 The info that I have (which may or may not be reliable) is that the legality of picking up the transmission depends on whether the transmission is a broadcast (Ok) or a point-to-point link (No-No). A reciever aimed at a ground station is probably illegal. On the other hand, if the satellite is sending a largish footprint (like 1/4 of the contiguous 48) down, can they really be considered point-to- point? I have neither a TV nor a dish, but if I did, I would think about putting it under a fiberglass roof in a wooden building ... -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape .. dig ) hou5d!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*. (soon hou4b!mat)