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Originally Posted by rumproast_face
Anyhow, I'm going to dismantle the 2 "Dish" dishes ... I don't want "Dish" ...
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I wouldn't take the Dish dishes down just yet. Depending on what receiver you get now, and/or in the future, you may have a use for those. There is not much FTA video that you can get with them, but there are a lot of options for receiving audio of various types.
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Originally Posted by rumproast_face
I cannot get any TV reception where I am, so I want to tune into FTA.
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Make sure that you understand that FTA reception isn't the same as over the air reception and isn't going to be the same as Dishnet or
DTV cable type channels. It is a bunch of foreign language channels, a bunch of channels with raw news and sports feeds, a bunch of channels with 2nd teir networks (the types you'd find on UHF), several
PBS channels, and a few of the major networks (again, what you can receive depends on your equipment to some extent, ie C vs Ku band, and STB vs PCI card). You won't be able to receive things like CNN, HBO and other cable type things, and you won't be able to receive your own local channels.
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Originally Posted by rumproast_face
Is it possible to simply re-use some of that coaxial cable left here if I rerun it to my new system? Geez, must be up to 100 yards of it ...
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Probably, if it is RG6, however again, a year from now, you may wish you had left some of that where the previous owner's had it. If you have 2 dishnet dishes, you might use the coax from one of those with your new system, but make sure you understand exactly where it is going so that you don't accidently connect more than one thing to the same coax.
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Originally Posted by rumproast_face
And: If I choose to "enhance" my system later with a bigger dish (enhance the Sadoun system I'm purchasing, I mean) can I simply swap the smaller dish with a bigger one ... tweak a few components ... change a few things, and it can more or less work? |
Assuming that you get a 90CM now, the only upgrade you'd likely be interested in is to add
C-band. Sadoun sells some smaller C-band dishes, which are marginal with respect to how big they are. If you go to one of those, you'd be best to add that as a second dish. A full fledged C-band dish, however is considerably bigger, ie 10' is typical, some get by with 8'. The equipment used to move these dishes is completely different, and isn't available at Sadoun. I wouldn't recommend thinking about that at this point, since C-band is really a different animal, and you'll probably do it via a separate system rather than via upgrading your Ku only system.
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Originally Posted by rumproast_face
Santa Rosa is about 120 degrees west .. just north of San Francisco ... so I ought to be okay ,,,? I live in an HOA, but I am sure the equipment I install is okay.
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In many HOAs, you might be limited to a 1 meter dish, which would pretty much rule out C-band. They can't stop you from having a 1 meter dish.