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Dave's antenna post got me wondering...

You can go in any bigbox store here and pick up a satellite setup on sale for 60 bucks or so (2ft dish, reciever, and 50 meters of coax). Take it home, mount, aim, and use. Astra satellite and get a few hundred channels and radio, all free. Go figure......

Dave
 
That HAS to be nonsense. 30 years ago you COULD build a 12 foot dish, buy your own decoder and get "free" programming. Not any more.

Exactly what band are you claiming is free and unscrambled - and useable with a small dish?
 
But then you must subscribe to the service and pay month after month after month as long as you want to view programming.

With an over the air broadcast antenna you buy the antenna hook it to your television and you have no signal to subscribe to as it is free---paid for with the same advertising that you probably see via a subscribed service.

Yes, the programming is limited as to what is available but those of us with OTA antennas often grew up with just one channel in our rural area so the multiple channels available today are something we can live with.

If you don't have the bucks to subscribe--you simply make do.
 
Are you talking about in the USA, or somewhere in Europe?? I don't mean to be ethnocentric, but since this Website does originate in the USA, I usually assume posts relate to North America unless otherwise indicated.
 

For some reason I can't edit my post in order to delete it. I didn't the part about free sat signal, etc.

Expect it is like that in your part of the world but not here.
 
We only had one channel here before the digital change over. A very snowy poor picture if you had a huge antenna and amp system. After digital? Now get over 30, crystal clear - VHF and UHF from 60-80 miles away. Had to mount my antennas over 600 feet from the house, up on the hill.
 
(quoted from post at 12:27:17 01/05/11) That HAS to be nonsense. 30 years ago you COULD build a 12 foot dish, buy your own decoder and get "free" programming. Not any more.

Exactly what band are you claiming is free and unscrambled - and useable with a small dish?
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I wouldn't mention it if it wasn't true..... What I get is European and some Spanish, African, even get Al Jazzira :roll: . Not much English speeking stuff other than radio and some news (SKY, CNBC, CNN, and FOX all british stuff).

There are plenty of pay channels but we don't watch enough TV to justify them.

Dave
 
That's just the old KU band system that is over 30 years old and dying out. Very little worth watching for free. That's what I used when it first became available a long time ago. At that time, I built my own dish.

You'd have to spend a lot of money on equipement and have a way to track several geo-stationary-orbit sattelliltes - to hardly get anything.

That system is far from "cheap" , "free", or worth the bother. In fact, they can be found for free. Plenty of people unplugged theirs and still have the equipment laying around.

To make use of what little is left up there in the sky, you need a dish that moves with an LNA or, or multiple dishes with an LNB with a rotator on it, along with a receiver in the house. Then many companies would like to sell you a decoder with a monthly subscription so you can receive something you actually want to watch.

The big change, years ago was away from this KU system to what Dirct TV and Dish Network use now. Small dish pointed at one satellite with many channels and no polarity changes needed.
 
If all you want is what is crammed down your throat by the "small dish" companies that make you pay through the nose, that is fine.
There is a LOT of quality free programming available to those who want it. I still use a 10' C-Band dish and a FTA receiver for much of my programming. I didn't pay much for any of it, most of it was given to me. But because the masses want everything spoon fed, 1000 channels of garbage all from the comfort of their lazy-boy, they'll have to pay for it.
 
Oh, and the Ku system is still alive and well, perhaps not as much as there used to be but there is plenty to choose from there as well.

In Europe they have it right! FTA is huge over there. Here we have only what they want us to see.......and we pay for that "privilege" :roll:
 
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