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659:, telephoned Hughes Communications, but officials there could not offer an explanation for the jamming. The HBO technician attempted to regain control by increasing the uplink transmission power from 125 watts to 2,000 watts. This was unsuccessful, as MacDougall increased his power in a control battle that lasted about 90 seconds, during which it was feared that a further power increase would damage the satellite. MacDougall became scared, abandoned his control of the satellite, and went home. He felt guilty about his actions the following day, but hoped the jamming would not be noticed by anyone not working for HBO. MacDougall was later surprised to see his actions being reported on network television. Thus, when he returned to work that night he pretended to have no knowledge about the intrusion, and asked questions about what had happened. MacDougall only told close friends, and had visions of federal agents visiting his home. 314:(HBO) began scrambling its signal on a 24-hour basis on January 15, 1986, it offered subscriptions to home dish owners for $ 12.95 per month ($ 30.61 in 2020 dollars), which was either equal to or slightly higher than what cable subscribers paid. HBO also advised viewers that purchasing a descrambler for $ 395 ($ 933.80 in 2020 dollars) would (along with the monthly fee) allow them to continue watching HBO. Several satellite dish dealers across the U.S. closed their stores as a result of a reduction in dish sales, caused by the rise in signal scrambling. Dish owners began protests over keeping free access to broadcasts. One such protest was by members of the Satellite Television Industry Association, who converged on 753:
that produced the character generator graphics model used to generate the typeface on the television screen was also identified after studying footage of the jamming. Investigators from the commission obtained copies from an FCC engineer and HBO viewers, as tape machines were not running during the jamming. The FCC removed stations from the list of 500 that were inoperative on April 27 or transmitting other material. This method brought the number of potential stations down to twelve. After FCC investigators visited these stations, there were now three prime suspects which included MacDougall. The commission later learned an accountant from
2730: 938:. A group called the Captain Midnight Grassroots Cause was formed and sold merchandise to help raise money for MacDougall to pay his legal fees. MacDougall found the constant media attention difficult to deal with, and was regularly bothered at home. He shut his office because no work could be undertaken without him being asked about Captain Midnight. As of 2011, he still resides in Ocala and undertakes consulting work under the MacDougall Electronics name. In a retrospective interview with 2771: 2759: 2747: 2699: 1906: 597:, the satellite that carried HBO. Locating the satellite coordinates was not of great difficulty for MacDougall as frequencies were widely published in manuals and enthusiast magazines. As a protest against the introduction of high fees and scrambling equipment, MacDougall transmitted a signal onto the satellite that for four and a half minutes overrode HBO's telecast of the 1985 film 2185: 49: 2687: 725:, wrote to the FCC saying the company had received calls threatening to place Galaxy 1 into a different orbit, but the company was unable to determine whether these were credible threats or not. Fuchs's letter additionally urged the commission to use all of its resources to capture the culprit. In the days after the jamming, more than 200 people called the 530: 928:"He didn't have any No. 1 records written about him or anything like that, and that's always an indication. The whole event was misunderstood. People took Captain Midnight to be a symbol of frustration people were feeling about scrambling. It made him seem a representative of dish owners, but he was not. There was no way a dish owner could do what he did." 856:
amongst disgruntled satellite dish owners who felt unfairly treated. The Satellite Television Industry Association released a statement denouncing intentional interference, and a spokesperson for the organization called for the offender to be imprisoned. Showtime vice president Stephen Schultz dubbed
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I do not regret trying to get the message out to corporate America about unfair pricing and restrictive trade practices. That was the impetus for doing what I did; that's the reason I jammed HBO; that's the reason I sent them a polite message. What I do regret is that I was young and fairly naïve in
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MacDougall was approached for interviews by major U.S. news stations after his arraignment, but Gentile advised him to not appear on television until his sentencing. MacDougall held a news conference in which he stated he did not contest the rights of cable companies to scramble their programs, but
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MacDougall contacted attorney John Green Jr., who advised him the chances of him winning the case were 70 percent and that a trial would be risky and costly. He faced being fined up to $ 100,000 and being sentenced to one year in prison if he was convicted. Furthermore, MacDougall was worried about
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Prior to the jamming, the FCC warned that anyone interfering with television signals would be harshly dealt with, and MacDougall was charged after surrendering to the authorities following media and industry pressure. Investigators from the commission spoke to MacDougall in July (he lost his job at
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Later, the FCC determined which teleport uplink sites out of the 2,000 licensed transmitters in the U.S. had the capability to override the HBO signal. That narrowed it down to 580 uplink sites that had sufficiently large antennas that had the capability of broadcasting the signal. The manufacturer
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made indications of its desire to get involved, and the FBI was called in to assist the investigation. One hundred FCC field offices and monitoring stations across the U.S. were actively involved in the investigation, with no fewer than six FCC employees working on the case. Oliver Long, the head
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In 1983, MacDougall opened the satellite dealership MacDougall Electronics in Ocala. The company initially turned a healthy profit, but following the scrambling of HBO's signal on January 15, 1986, its turnover declined. Consequently, MacDougall reduced his expenses where possible and in the same
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their programming and charging fees to home satellite dish owners who accessed the same satellite signals that cable operators received. Many satellite dish owners faced the prospect of having to purchase descrambling equipment at a cost of hundreds of dollars, as well as having to pay monthly or
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On April 26, 1986, MacDougall worked at his shop as usual, and closed at 4:00 p.m. EST. After eating dinner, he reported to Central Florida Teleport with one other engineer on duty. The second engineer left at 6:00 p.m., leaving MacDougall to operate the building on his own. MacDougall
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MacDougall's jamming of HBO's satellite signal generated much publicity, and attracted attention from several sectors of society. The jamming was described by various press publications as either the first instance of high-technology terrorism, or the most widely watched instance of electronic
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planned to hold meetings concerning the issue of satellite jamming. Members of Congress showed interest, with those coming from states with extensive rural areas showing more sympathy to owners of satellite dishes. The hijacking raised concerns over satellite-borne communications: that data
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that placed letters on the television screen. He spent a couple of minutes composing his message. MacDougall began his message with a polite greeting as he did not wish to be insulting. He selected the name "Captain Midnight" from a film he had recently seen,
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asked the government to allow the marketplace and not corporations to set prices. He revealed he was aware of a year-old magazine that spoke about the type of signal interference he caused, but affirmed the article was not influential on his actions.
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to get himself acquitted. He thus changed his mind and agreed to cooperate fully with the FCC. At his first hearing on the afternoon of July 22, he pleaded guilty to the charge of "illegally operating a satellite uplink transmitter", a violation of
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In 1986, the switch from Eastern Standard Time (EST) to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) occurred on the night of April 26–27, at 2:00 a.m. local time, so the Captain Midnight prank occurred a little less than 1.5 hours before the beginning of
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Central Florida Teleport beforehand due to the closure of People's Choice), asking him questions that led him to believe that the commission was aware of the incident. Two FCC agents visited MacDougall's house two weeks later along with
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for ATIS. Although HBO has not been targeted since the channel's signal power was increased to make it more difficult for hijackers to intrude, there have been multiple instances of uplink video piracy across the United States.
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uplink station (which uplinked services to satellites) as an operations engineer to help him pay his bills. As he was not receiving any customers, MacDougall pulled all company advertising and saved money by switching off his
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annual subscription fees to cable programming providers. Fees for home dish owners were often higher than fees paid by cable subscribers, despite dish owners being responsible for acquiring and servicing their own equipment.
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the ways of the media. I didn't grasp the fact that no one understood my motives and that everyone would make assumptions. Had I known that up front I would have been much more fervent in explaining my motivations. I had no
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to the judge. At that time, MacDougall stated that he started to feel that there was not enough evidence to convict him, and despite continuing to protest his innocence, MacDougall told Gentile he would attend court.
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that was superimposed on HBO's signal for a brief period. HBO did not investigate this incident, as it had occurred during the overnight hours, and as a result, very few people had been watching at the time.
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MacDougall wrote protest letters to legislators, and spent a large amount of money to raise awareness about wanting to keep the market free from excessive charging of its services. At 12:49 a.m.
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network by aiming his satellite dish at 72 degrees west longitude. The final theorized hijacking would have been aiming his satellite dish at 100 degrees west longitude, above the
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network People's Choice, which used Central Florida Teleport's facilities. After the film ended, he went through his regular routine. Before logging off, MacDougall set up
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field office, oversaw the investigation, and the commission assigned agent George Dillon to the case. The case first led investigators from the FCC to focus on the
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As a consequence of MacDougall's jamming, and ambiguity about the federal misdemeanor charge made against him under 47 U.S.C. § 301, the U.S. Congress passed the
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Davis, Bob (July 23, 1986). "Captain Midnight Unmasked by FCC, Enters Guilty Plea — Retailer of Satellite Dishes Flashed Message on TV During HBO Broadcast".
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determined that MacDougall could have potentially taken over the signals of three additional satellites. He could have taken control of the network feed of
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and received a $ 5,000 fine, was put on unsupervised probation for one year, and had his amateur radio license suspended for one year. Later, he was
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was delivered for free over local frequencies in the United States. When the industry began charging viewers for access to premium services via
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satellite Fleetsatcom 1. The magazine also posited that an amateur hobbyist could hijack the satellites that alerted U.S. military forces to
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In the mid-1980s, controversy erupted in the cable programming world as American media companies that owned pay television channels began
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owners, which he considered too expensive. MacDougall was working at his second job as an operations engineer at the Central Florida
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The FCC is responsible for ensuring nobody interferes with the licensed airwaves transmitted in the United States.
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in 2011, MacDougall said he did not regret his actions but wished his motivations were more clearly understood:
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Galaxy 1 carried HBO on transponder 23 at a rate of 125 watts, with relay signals sent out at 6.385
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The full recording of the broadcast signal intrusion, as it happened live on television in 1986
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Building the Architecture for Sustainable Space Security: Conference Report 30-31 March 2006
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The April 20 intrusion went unreported to the FCC until after the following week's jamming.
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MacDougall's action led to him being immediately regarded as coming close to being a
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had overheard MacDougall bragging about the jamming at a payphone in a rest area off
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mask. The jamming did not appear to affect HBO's pricing policies in the long-term.
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due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a payphone off
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actions, creating confusion for world leaders and placing the world at risk of
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Beginning in the late 1920s, when the first experimental transmissions began,
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Myths and Mysteries of Florida: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
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The penalty was raised to a fine of $ 250,000 and/or ten years imprisonment.
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Although the intrusion caused minor annoyance to viewers, HBO contacted the
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transmitted by business and military users would become potential targets.
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To protest against charges for access to scrambled satellite channels
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the intrusion as an act of "video terrorism". A correspondent for
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Richard Acello, the editor of the home satellite dish magazine
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and was sanctioned with a $ 5,000 fine, one-year unsupervised
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Byers, Jim; Cramer, Jerome; Zoglin, Richard (May 12, 1986).
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wrote the jamming was similar to the plot of the 1976 film
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had their transmissions briefly interrupted by a man in a
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month was offered a part-time job at the Central Florida
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Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society
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John R. McDougall

SMPTE color bars
Ocala
Florida
Broadcast signal intrusion
Home Box Office
Automatic Transmitter Identification System
electrical engineer
jammed
Home Box Office
satellite signal
Galaxy 1
The Falcon and the Snowman
satellite dish
Teleport
Ocala
Florida
Hauppauge
New York
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Bureau of Investigation
subpoena
Interstate 75
plea bargained
probation
United States Congress
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
18 U.S.C

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