I would highly suggest a motor setup, however, if you have no motor or if you wish to get a motor later, fixing on 97w is the satellite i’d choose. I enjoy watching channels like RT and TBN which are on that satellite, but by all means, a motor is really nice and isn’t that much more money. For the receiver, don’t get the crap boxes, get the AZBox Premium plus HD, it will support DVB-S and DVB-S2 in QPSK and 8PSK, best receiver for getting fta 🙂
push bar April 28, 2013
hi there . this is my new channel for me dance group called pushbar and would love it if u could subscribe to us. thank you for taking the time to read this xxx
olebudbf April 28, 2013
Give to me
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
I don’t have a C-Band system at the moment but if I get a chance to upgrade to one in the future I certainly will.
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
You will likely not be able to use a DirecTV dish for FTA as FTA signals require a linear LNB (DirecTV’s are circular) and a larger dish (33″ minimum). Additionally you would need access to the roof of your apartment building to mount the dish or a south facing balcony to setup the dish as all the FTA satellites are located in the southern sky.
bibbler227 April 28, 2013
Hi Chris..
Fine business. You should do one of the FYA C Band birds as well. Lots of good stuff up there including most of the American networks. Hopefully, they will move most of these to ku. ’73 Al – N3KTH
JOSEPH STRABORNY April 28, 2013
Jan 2013 QUESTION
im nine stories high bridgeport ct what satelite reciever and satelite fta
do i need to recieve anything at all…
can a direct tv satelite work with fta reciever of choice?
Jaxson Beaty April 28, 2013
You suck
kebeyfatumata April 28, 2013
Orppr
satellitedirecttvtwe April 28, 2013
This is indeed an eye opener in my opinion. I have never seen a youtube video like this before.
Jason Chen April 28, 2013
MacTV you mentioned at 1:47 is from Taiwan not Thailand. ~^_^~
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
Have a look at the application DVB Dream, one of the better tuner card applications for PC.
bravo242 April 28, 2013
Is there a motorized satelite dish that can be hooked up to a windows PC & software for satelite direction control and media reception?
somjit328 April 28, 2013
DD
walki talki April 28, 2013
Satellite TV to PC has been around for a while now, and has amazed over 100,000 subscribers! Offering over 3600 channels of streaming TV content to your PC, it has one of the largest selections of TV shows online.
For more information check out my blog!!
satelliteetvforpc.blogspot.com/
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
Yes you will need a motorized dish or multiple dishes to receive all available satellites. Galaxy 19 has the largest number of FTA channels on it but many are in a foreign-language. There are a large number of International news channels on Galaxy 19 though.
John Smiith April 28, 2013
Would I need a motorized dish to get all the satellites in North America? If so would you say Galaxy 19 @97 W is the best satellite to choose from?
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
No Problem, watching TV News from around the world is extremely interesting, Last year I found it amusing when the Nigerian State broadcaster covered the British Royal Wedding in great detail, some things make the news no matter where you live 😀
sonick808 April 28, 2013
understood. I’ll pick up an LNB and a sat signal meter online to help with aiming and build out from there. I like the idea of news from other countries. Thanks again for the help!
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
The LNBs used by Dish Network/DirecTV/Bell are not compatible with standard FTA channels, they operate in a different frequency range and have circular polarization rather then linear polarization.
sonick808 April 28, 2013
excellent, thanks for your input I appreciate it. One last question: The LNB on the used provider dishes, do they provide the full frequency/functionality range for use with FTA, or should I pick up a new LNB from a FTA-centric provider and fit it to the dish ? Thanks again, 73 de ke7vzw 🙂
christopherve7alb April 28, 2013
Yup, you’ve got the idea: dish to receive the signals, cable to bring them to the receiver, and a receiver box to display them on your TV. Used Coolsat receivers can be purchased for a very cheap price on Ebay and local classified ads, a good place to check locally would be your local craigslist or kijiji. Free or cheap salvaged dishes are a great way to save money, just make sure they are not warped and are at least 33″ across.
barbaraanneotdx April 28, 2013
good stuff!!!
sonick808 April 28, 2013
what is the cheapest, competent hardware i can use to get into FTA ? I don’t plan to circumvent research by asking of course, but after watching your video which I learned quite a bit from, i would value your opinion. A dish, receiver/decoder, and cabling ; is this the gist ? Which models are adequate at the low end of the price spectrum ? Can i use these salvaged dishes on craigslist ?
Paul Marín April 28, 2013
Have you ever tried this one semcr(dot)com/satellite ?? I have tried and it worked fine. Some channels have very poor images mostly in countries where it was expected to find that low quality thugh..
Aaron April 28, 2013
Hmm. I just check it out.
Just seems to give a database of webpages with embedded video of the show, The community.
Personally I use the Web Of Trust add-on for firefox. Although I hear that AVG has a site scanner add-on for firefox.
Jak April 28, 2013
Google chrome. it prevents you from visiting harmful links. (mostly effective)
Nirav April 28, 2013
very simple,, just download site advisor from mcafee…its free..here is the link http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html
then type in ur website in google and it will show u the ratings of the website and the risks from websites.
Serena April 28, 2013
the way to check whether it is safe to click or not
Step 1Look at the underlying URL you are clicking on.
Anytime you receive a message that has a link you can tell it is fake by looking at the URL in the link. Text-based email messages will contain the full link in clear text so it is easy to read. HTML-based email messages may contain links embedded in images or other text, so to see the link you either need to hover your mouse over the link without clicking on it or view the HTML source. Try just moving your cursor over the link and looking at the tool tip that displays the URL. Or, if necessary, go to your VIEW menu and click View Source (or similar function). If necessary, you can carefully RIGHT-CLICK on the body of the image (away from the link) and click VIEW SOURCE. If you can’t find the link by looking at the HTML source code then do a quick find for all the URLs that start with “http”.
Step 2Dissect the URL and look for improper domain names.
Any URL that doesn’t actually land on a safe domain is not safe to click. A safe domain is one that you trust, like ehow.com or google.com or wikipedia.com, etc. Look for the exact and full domain name in the URL. Right after the “HTTP://” and before the first forward slash “/” is the full domain name. For example, http://qcc.quikforms.com/login.aspx has a domain name of quikforms.com with a subdomain of qcc and that domain can be trusted by users of Quik! services.
Phishing scams look legitimate because they use a known domain name as a subdomain to fool you, but in reality it is their domain that you are clicking over to. For example, I received an email that contained a URL similar to the following “http://accounts.quikforms.com.hksports.ge/mail/etc…” (this address has been faked to ensure I’m not promoting a phishing site). If you look at this URL you’ll notice that it contains a subdomain of accounts.quikforms.com but their domain is hksports.ge, which is NOT a domain that I can trust. The very fact that this link contains recognizable domain information as part of the url is all you need to know in order to recognize that this link cannot be trusted!
Step 3Look at the return-path email address in the email header.
If everything looks ok and you think the link may be safe, but you’re not 100% sure, take a look at the email header. The return-path value should be someone you know with a domain you trust. For example, an email from Facebook has a return path with an email domain of “@facebookmail.com” which makes sense. But if the return path on a fake email from Facebook had “@securian.net” then you would know the email cannot be trusted.
Emails that contain scams, phishing, viruses, worms and Trojans are a scourge of the internet. They may not be easy to avoid receiving, but they are very easy to avoid encouraging – don’t click on them. Don’t even open them if you don’t recognize the sender and the subject line is suspect. Simply delete these messages and your email and computer should remain safe from harm.
Tech Savy April 28, 2013
Here are a few examples of common files that could contain viruses:
EXE FILE: If you download a program or anything that requires an install file then it will be an .exe file. When you press on it to install to your computer you could be releasing a virus.
ZIP FILE: People download zip files from the internet that contain any other file type and you will not see it’s contents until you open it. A zip file might have an exe file in it.
SCR FILE: Free screensavers for your computer. They always have something bad in them. Sometimes adware or viruses.
DOC FILE: A Microsoft word document can contain macros and small scripts that are viruses.
instead of save or download the files on your computer you must first scan these files with a Antivirus software you have on your computer and also update your antivirus on the regular basis.
I would highly suggest a motor setup, however, if you have no motor or if you wish to get a motor later, fixing on 97w is the satellite i’d choose. I enjoy watching channels like RT and TBN which are on that satellite, but by all means, a motor is really nice and isn’t that much more money. For the receiver, don’t get the crap boxes, get the AZBox Premium plus HD, it will support DVB-S and DVB-S2 in QPSK and 8PSK, best receiver for getting fta 🙂
hi there . this is my new channel for me dance group called pushbar and would love it if u could subscribe to us. thank you for taking the time to read this xxx
Give to me
I don’t have a C-Band system at the moment but if I get a chance to upgrade to one in the future I certainly will.
You will likely not be able to use a DirecTV dish for FTA as FTA signals require a linear LNB (DirecTV’s are circular) and a larger dish (33″ minimum). Additionally you would need access to the roof of your apartment building to mount the dish or a south facing balcony to setup the dish as all the FTA satellites are located in the southern sky.
Hi Chris..
Fine business. You should do one of the FYA C Band birds as well. Lots of good stuff up there including most of the American networks. Hopefully, they will move most of these to ku. ’73 Al – N3KTH
Jan 2013 QUESTION
im nine stories high bridgeport ct what satelite reciever and satelite fta
do i need to recieve anything at all…
can a direct tv satelite work with fta reciever of choice?
You suck
Orppr
This is indeed an eye opener in my opinion. I have never seen a youtube video like this before.
MacTV you mentioned at 1:47 is from Taiwan not Thailand. ~^_^~
Have a look at the application DVB Dream, one of the better tuner card applications for PC.
Is there a motorized satelite dish that can be hooked up to a windows PC & software for satelite direction control and media reception?
DD
Satellite TV to PC has been around for a while now, and has amazed over 100,000 subscribers! Offering over 3600 channels of streaming TV content to your PC, it has one of the largest selections of TV shows online.
For more information check out my blog!!
satelliteetvforpc.blogspot.com/
Yes you will need a motorized dish or multiple dishes to receive all available satellites. Galaxy 19 has the largest number of FTA channels on it but many are in a foreign-language. There are a large number of International news channels on Galaxy 19 though.
Would I need a motorized dish to get all the satellites in North America? If so would you say Galaxy 19 @97 W is the best satellite to choose from?
No Problem, watching TV News from around the world is extremely interesting, Last year I found it amusing when the Nigerian State broadcaster covered the British Royal Wedding in great detail, some things make the news no matter where you live 😀
understood. I’ll pick up an LNB and a sat signal meter online to help with aiming and build out from there. I like the idea of news from other countries. Thanks again for the help!
The LNBs used by Dish Network/DirecTV/Bell are not compatible with standard FTA channels, they operate in a different frequency range and have circular polarization rather then linear polarization.
excellent, thanks for your input I appreciate it. One last question: The LNB on the used provider dishes, do they provide the full frequency/functionality range for use with FTA, or should I pick up a new LNB from a FTA-centric provider and fit it to the dish ? Thanks again, 73 de ke7vzw 🙂
Yup, you’ve got the idea: dish to receive the signals, cable to bring them to the receiver, and a receiver box to display them on your TV. Used Coolsat receivers can be purchased for a very cheap price on Ebay and local classified ads, a good place to check locally would be your local craigslist or kijiji. Free or cheap salvaged dishes are a great way to save money, just make sure they are not warped and are at least 33″ across.
good stuff!!!
what is the cheapest, competent hardware i can use to get into FTA ? I don’t plan to circumvent research by asking of course, but after watching your video which I learned quite a bit from, i would value your opinion. A dish, receiver/decoder, and cabling ; is this the gist ? Which models are adequate at the low end of the price spectrum ? Can i use these salvaged dishes on craigslist ?
Have you ever tried this one semcr(dot)com/satellite ?? I have tried and it worked fine. Some channels have very poor images mostly in countries where it was expected to find that low quality thugh..
Hmm. I just check it out.
Just seems to give a database of webpages with embedded video of the show, The community.
Personally I use the Web Of Trust add-on for firefox. Although I hear that AVG has a site scanner add-on for firefox.
Google chrome. it prevents you from visiting harmful links. (mostly effective)
very simple,, just download site advisor from mcafee…its free..here is the link
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html
then type in ur website in google and it will show u the ratings of the website and the risks from websites.
the way to check whether it is safe to click or not
Step 1Look at the underlying URL you are clicking on.
Anytime you receive a message that has a link you can tell it is fake by looking at the URL in the link. Text-based email messages will contain the full link in clear text so it is easy to read. HTML-based email messages may contain links embedded in images or other text, so to see the link you either need to hover your mouse over the link without clicking on it or view the HTML source. Try just moving your cursor over the link and looking at the tool tip that displays the URL. Or, if necessary, go to your VIEW menu and click View Source (or similar function). If necessary, you can carefully RIGHT-CLICK on the body of the image (away from the link) and click VIEW SOURCE. If you can’t find the link by looking at the HTML source code then do a quick find for all the URLs that start with “http”.
Step 2Dissect the URL and look for improper domain names.
Any URL that doesn’t actually land on a safe domain is not safe to click. A safe domain is one that you trust, like ehow.com or google.com or wikipedia.com, etc. Look for the exact and full domain name in the URL. Right after the “HTTP://” and before the first forward slash “/” is the full domain name. For example, http://qcc.quikforms.com/login.aspx has a domain name of quikforms.com with a subdomain of qcc and that domain can be trusted by users of Quik! services.
Phishing scams look legitimate because they use a known domain name as a subdomain to fool you, but in reality it is their domain that you are clicking over to. For example, I received an email that contained a URL similar to the following “http://accounts.quikforms.com.hksports.ge/mail/etc…” (this address has been faked to ensure I’m not promoting a phishing site). If you look at this URL you’ll notice that it contains a subdomain of accounts.quikforms.com but their domain is hksports.ge, which is NOT a domain that I can trust. The very fact that this link contains recognizable domain information as part of the url is all you need to know in order to recognize that this link cannot be trusted!
Step 3Look at the return-path email address in the email header.
If everything looks ok and you think the link may be safe, but you’re not 100% sure, take a look at the email header. The return-path value should be someone you know with a domain you trust. For example, an email from Facebook has a return path with an email domain of “@facebookmail.com” which makes sense. But if the return path on a fake email from Facebook had “@securian.net” then you would know the email cannot be trusted.
Emails that contain scams, phishing, viruses, worms and Trojans are a scourge of the internet. They may not be easy to avoid receiving, but they are very easy to avoid encouraging – don’t click on them. Don’t even open them if you don’t recognize the sender and the subject line is suspect. Simply delete these messages and your email and computer should remain safe from harm.
Here are a few examples of common files that could contain viruses:
EXE FILE: If you download a program or anything that requires an install file then it will be an .exe file. When you press on it to install to your computer you could be releasing a virus.
ZIP FILE: People download zip files from the internet that contain any other file type and you will not see it’s contents until you open it. A zip file might have an exe file in it.
SCR FILE: Free screensavers for your computer. They always have something bad in them. Sometimes adware or viruses.
DOC FILE: A Microsoft word document can contain macros and small scripts that are viruses.
instead of save or download the files on your computer you must first scan these files with a Antivirus software you have on your computer and also update your antivirus on the regular basis.