Actual satellite hunting or DXing as we call it in Shortwave Radio hunting of which I was a big fan in my previous years,is one in which we do satellite hunting with the minimum and smallest equipment possible.Sat hunting with huge dishes can be called dish pointing at the most.
So far as C band hunting is concerned I used to hunt C band channels with a 8 foot dish back in my village in Punjab when there were no mobiles or satellite meters or DTH or even internet.
We just had one magazine about satellites which we used to purchase from Bombay !
I am just new to Ku band satellite DXing.
Now we have moved to near Chandigarh where we dont have our own roof otherwise I would have caught many satellites to the west of 88e with this Dish TV DTH antenna.