The drop out rate for BUDs classes are sometimes over 90 percent.

BUDs are also still useful for picking-up weak signals at the edge of a satellite's broadcast " footprint " — the area at which a particular satellite is aimed.

For this reason, BUDs are helpful in places like Alaska, or parts of the Caribbean.

Large parabolic antennas similar to BUDs are still in production by companies such as Fortec Star and Standard Antenna Manufacturing Inc .. New dishes differ in their construction and materials.

As a complete system they have a much lower noise temperature than old BUDs, and are generally better for digital K < sub > u </ sub > reception.

There exists a dedicated group of enthusiasts who use TVRO ( TV receive-only ) gear such as big ugly dishes or " BUDs " to peek in on backhaul signals that are available on any of the dozens of broadcast satellites that are visible from almost any point on Earth.

The stock LNBs fitted to typical BUDs will usually need to be replaced with one of a lower noise temperature to receive digital broadcasts.

BUDs were originally marketed in the late 1970s, with the earliest dishes being made of solid fiberglass and later models being made of wire mesh and solid steel or aluminum.

In addition to encryption, DBS services such as PrimeStar had been reducing the popularity for BUDs since the early 1990s.

BUDs were most popular in rural areas, beyond the broadcast range of most local TV stations.

Support for BUDs dried up when strong encryption was introduced around 1994.

Many long-disconnected BUDs still occupy their original spot.

Due to the number of systems in existence, their lack of usefulness, and because many people consider them an eyesore, used BUDs can be purchased for very little money.

Most of the free analogue channels that BUDs were built to receive have been taken offline.

BUDs can still be seen at antenna farms for these reasons, so that video and backhauls can be sent to and from the TV network with which a station is affiliated, without interruption due to inclement weather.

The prices on these dishes have fallen dramatically since the first BUDs were produced from several thousand dollars to as little as $ 189 as of 2008.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Questions and, particularly, exclamations are usually channeled along informal, horizontal lines not indicated in Figure 3 and seldom are carried beyond the nearest neighbor.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

By a combination of music, lighting effects, and narration, famous events that have transpired in these locations are evoked and re-created for large audiences usually to considerable acclaim.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Business loans generally are repayable in regular installments -- usually monthly, including interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum on the unpaid balance -- and have a maximum maturity of 10 years ; ;

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

usually concerned about America's belief that attainment and success are measured in dollars and titles.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

Greases, stains, and miscellaneous soils are usually sorbed onto the soiled surface.

It is almost certain that some of these, usually a trifle smaller than the honeybees, are andrenas or mining bees.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

Some of the most famous PWA projects are the Triborough Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, the longest continuous sidewalk in the world along 6½ miles of Bayshore Blvd.

But the next two longest glaciers in the Eastern Alps ( the Hintereis, 6½ miles, and the Gepatsch, 6 miles ) are both in the Ötztal Alps, and so close to the true main watershed.

This is a slender bird, 16. 5 – 19 cm ( 6½ – 7½ in ) in length ( East Asian subspecies are longer, to 21 cm ( 8¼ in ), with the characteristic long, constantly wagging tail of its genus.

There is no qualifications required to participate in the Chicago Marathon, but only runners who finish within 6½ hours are officially timed.

Tile Wood ( 6½ hectares ) and Pound Wood ( 22¼ hectares ) are owned by the Essex Wildlife Trust ; Starvelarks Wood and Wyburns Wood are both part of Little Haven Nature Reserve ( 37¼ hectares ) which is owned by Little Havens Childrens Hospice Trust and managed by Essex Wildlife Trust ; Coombe Wood is under mixed ownership and much of it has Village Green status.