# Commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials/693516 "2014-07-19T06:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials/693516/41 "2014-07-24T23:16:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It was an interesting hobby. > I was standing inside a Perfect-10 once when my girlfriend wanted to watch _Animal Planet_, and moved the dish to the appropriate satellite. All the way west? About as far as you could get from the wildfeed satellites? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials/693516/42 "2014-07-25T00:32:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > All the way west? About as far as you could get from the wildfeed satellites? I have a 10’ and an 8’. Besides, I couldn’t watch the close up of sandy bikini bottoms with my girl friend in the room. 🙂 Star Trek feeds to Canada, as was mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials/693516/43 "2014-07-25T04:54:26Z")
I had to get a 10’ dish because that was the smallest one I could find with a polar mount. I was hoping to maybe pick up some Aussie satellites on the mpeg box. Sadly, where we have the pole put the edge of the dish just into the corner of the garage roof, so I could not practically move it that far west and still be able to easily bring it back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials/693516.md?page=2)