My understanding was that there was a studio building with a low power transmitter, and the transmissions from that were broadcasted to the high power antenna which would then beam it out to consumers. By placing their dish between these two points, the hacker was able to overpower the signal to the antenna and insert their own video feed.

Could it also be due to load/server issues? When I have trouble with page loads on .world I have a tendency to bounce and have a low average visit time.

My pleasure, thanks for joining! And agreed, I always found the sub name to be a bit weird.

Same here. The desert angle of the story reminds me a bit of the Death Valley Germans.

How am I a bot? As a longtime fan of r/unresolvedmysteries, I’m working on creating a community on the fediverse in which we can discuss mysteries.