Posted by jdemaris on January 05, 2011 at 13:42:28 from (67.142.130.37):
In Reply to: Re: Satellite TV? posted by johndeere720ga on January 05, 2011 at 13:12:28:
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.
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