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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
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 22:44:02 1984
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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 ...
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