free to air units

[bball]

I have been hearing about the free to air receivers but have not seen much discussion about them anywhere. Is this out of line for this forum. It seems to me there would be a lot of discussion concerning this item here.

[RonD]

FTA broadcasts are very narrow interest channels, meaning they are foreign language, religious and public service type channels for the most part.
To take full advantage of an FTA system you need to have a tracking dish(moves from 1 satellite to another).
If you go to lyngsat.com you can view all the channels available in North American, the FTA channels are designated by a DVB(and nothing else below it) or F(free), you need a 10ft dish for C-band (frequency 3xxx-4xxxGhz) and at least a 30" dish for Ku-band (11xxx-12xxxGhz), most FTA are Ku-band.
Intelsat Americas 5 at 97.0°W has the most Ku DVB channels

lyngsat.com then frequencies:America, this will list all satellites above equator in our hemisphere, then select a satellite and it will show available channels, some satellites are for South America and the signal won't be available in North America

[virus]

No hacking discussions.

[Mixacb]

I have been hearing about the free to air receivers but have not seen much discussion about them anywhere. Is this out of line for this forum. It seems to me there would be a lot of discussion concerning this item here.


No links, if you want to sell anything here contact Risestar.

Loco502

[hobbitts]

Thanks Virus,

Exactly what I was looking for....>80)...An Extremely well-written tutorial on how to install an FTA system...Excellent...
Your efforts are Greatly appreciated!!!...>80)

peace....~Hobbit~

[goodnewz]

No hacking discussions.

[chicalis]

Hi, Im trying to setup my pansat 2500A, But can´t get into parental control menu and channel edit menu, what can I do?
Thanks

[carl-cwk]

Hello
Thank you for the great detailed instructions.

One area that confuses me.
I'm using BEC 6600+ FTA receiver. To get the Dish Network channels, on the Lyngsat page for Dish Network next to each number in the frequecy column
is either the letter L or R yet on the other satillite Lyngsat page for free to air is H or V. I do not have an option for the L or R setting, are these letters important? I'm new to FTA technology. Can you help me?

Darrell



H/V and L/R has to do with the polarity of the transponder. H/V is Horizontal and Verticle or linear polarization. The wave is a sinusoide and it is very important that your skew angle is correct when pointing your dish so that the dipole in the LNB will capture the signal. This is why the old Primestar LNBs had the scale marked on them.

The L/R refers to Left and Right or circular polarization. This wave is shaped like a coil spring twisting either to the left or the right, you may also see this designated as CW/CCW (clock wise or counter clock wise). The LNBs for Dish and DirectTV are of this type. The geometry of the LNB is such that the dipole will pick up the signal without the need for skewing.

When you scan in the transponders they will show up as H/V because that's all the reciever knows. As long as you have the correct type of LNB for the satalite that you are viewing it will work fine.

[mikaay]

Administrator edit:


Please refrain from satellite piracy discussions. Dish Network is currently in the final stages of a full swap of their cards at which time their piracy issue will end. The swap is expected to complete late summer of this year.

FTA receivers were not designed to decode encrypted subscription programming like that and the swap will help ensure that it stays that way.

However, on the bright side, you will still have hundreds of channels that you can receiver to put your receiver to good use.


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I too am trying to get information on the "free to air" satellite issue. It seems that I am no longer able to view any channels at all as every station says that it's scrambled.



thanks,

Mikaay

[billijay]

Administrator edit:


Please refrain from satellite piracy discussions. Dish Network is currently in the final stages of a full swap of their cards at which time their piracy issue will end. The swap is expected to complete late summer of this year.

FTA receivers were not designed to decode encrypted subscription programming like that and the swap will help ensure that it stays that way.

However, on the bright side, you will still have hundreds of channels that you can receiver to put your receiver to good use.


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I too am trying to get information on the "free to air" satellite issue. It seems that I am no longer able to view any channels at all as every station says that it's scrambled.



thanks,

Mikaay






Skyvision has everything you need to enter the world of true FTA. KU and C Band, and it's a lot different from the uneducated guesses that I keep reading on these forums. it's a lot easier than the so called FTA . The Ku dishes sell for under 100.00 with everything you need including LNB and roof mount. add your receiver you already have ( use freq 10750 and your O K )and no codes are needed just watch TV. Galaxy10 ( GO ) has a whole lot of english speaking locals and W1
has all the Pax stations and feeds ... W4 has NBC Feeds and the Ku has a number of english.. Too much more to mention... I receive over 450 stations
half are in english and there is no need to hack them.. I do not hack anything ... There;s too much without hacking... Aiming these Ku dishes is a peice of cake'
I've never owned are used a signal peaker. Good luck.

bjb@valink.com

[gsutliff]

new to this, can I view free channels with dish networks unit?