General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The only thing with Argos now, is that you can find better prices elsewhere, Amazon, Ebay etc.

In 1990 I went to the Comet on Caroline Street, and bought a satellite dish and TV box for £100, they were on offer, the normal price was £129.

I got a ladder and secured the satelite dish on to the wall using four 10mm rawl bolts, then after assembling everything else I took the TV box, a portable TV and mains extension lead outside to power it, after putting some silicon sealant around the joints on the LNB, which I had allowed to dry, I then put a wet tea towel over the LNB and pointed the dish at the then Astra A satelite by looking at other nearby statellite dishes, I switched the box to channel 8 which was the then sky one channel , and low and behold I got a picture, of course the picture was full of those analogue 'sparklies' which was caused by the wet tea towel, but after adjusting the dish, including the LNB offset to get the best possible and least sparklied picture, I tightened everything up, whipped the tea towel off the LNB and I had the most perfect of TV pictures