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Originally Posted by alkogolik
Hi Everyone,
I want to get an FTA system and so far I have come up with the following:
M-2 system with a 90cm dish.
I have a few questions:
1. Will the 90cm be enough for the Chicago area? I know that bigger is better. I just want to know if it is sufficient.
2. I have a Dish Network receiver. Can I get it to work with FTA channels if I add another dish? Or is Dish Network completely different?
3. It is hard to figure out the right info on Lyngsat about the programming. The bottom line is: Will I be able to get Russian Channels? Does anyone know of any? I see that there are a few in Europe, but I couldn't find any in the US.
4. C band requires a big dish. Does it mean that it's old technology and I should not worry about it? Our bylaws only allow dishes up to 100cm..
Does it pay to even try to use a dual band LBNF?
5. What does the "blind search" mean? Does it mean that I can just press scan and it finds all the sattelites within the limits of the dish and recognizes the channels?
I appreciate your help.
Alkogolik. |
(1) 90 is enough for Ku.
(2) No, Dishnet receiver won't work. It's not that it is different, it's just that it's not programmed to do non Dishnet DVB. You can get non scrambled Dishnet with a FTA receiver, but you can't get FTA with a dishnet receiver.
(3) You can get Russian language channels. I'd look at the
IA5 thread in the new finds section to get more info. I don't know how many there are, but I have seen some.
(4) I think it's a waste of time to try a C/Ku lnbf on a 100CM dish. C-band is NOT "old technology", more like VHF TV vs UHF TV, just a different band. Only thing different is that it takes bigger dishes for C-band.
(5) Blind scan means that once you are aimed at a satellite, it will search and find the transponders. Prior to blind scan, you had to know the frequency and symbol rate of a transponder before you could tune it in. With blind scan, the receiver will find "most" of the signals. Not all. With services like Lyngsat, you can get along without blind scan, but it is nice to be able to search for these things yourself, plus Lyngsat often doesn't have the up to date info, plus many people don't put things in Lyngsat, so often the "good" stuff won't be there. But with blind scan you can find it yourself.