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Old 12-16-2006, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Sadoun View Post
NO, spot beams are usually used by DTH DBS/DSS services and not FTA.
True, but there are some signals (primarily audio) that are not encrypted on these spot beams, and they can be received with some FTA receivers on these sats. It just depends on how you define FTA.
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