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Originally Posted by chetanh
Hi,
I live in a condo and would like to install a FTA satellite dish and a receiver. I am a complete newbie to satellite TV technology. What i know is that i will have to buy a satellite dish which would connect to a receiver which would then connect to your TV in order for you to get eh FTA channels. I also know that if you want to access premium content you have to buy receiver from the service provider and connect that to the satellite. Given this knowledge i have a few questions. Any help will be greatly appreciated:
1) Can one dish point to multiple satellites. |
Yes. Either use a motor or a Toroidal dish
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Originally Posted by chetanh
2) In case 1 is true can i have one dish and multiple receivers or can one receiver tune multiple satellites. If its a premium receiver how can i tune FTA channels. I am sure vice versa will not be possible.
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One receiver to multiple sats has been covered in question 1. Multiple receivers would be best done with a Toroidal dish. FTA = Free To Air so anything the receiver is capable of viewing that is out there unencrypted is free to watch. The problem you run into is "premium" receivers/systems usually are setup differently. Circular lnbf's vs. linear, DCII, etc.
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Originally Posted by chetanh
3) I live in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and my apartment does not allow installation of dish on the walls. I have a big solarium in my apartment. so
3a) Can i install the dish in the solarium (can it catch signals through the glass windows)? Cannot keep it open in Canadian winters |
No idea.
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3b) Since my apartment is not very big i do not have complete access to open sky. Now if i know the coordinates of the satellite how do i know that the dish can catch the signal from the satellite given the limited direct access I have to the sky through the huge glass windows of my solarium.
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About the simplest way I can think of is straight south is equal to your longitude (roughly). Sats are listed by longitude (
LyngSat - Lyngemark Satellite) somply move roughly that far from center degree wise and that should tell you what you can see or not.
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3c) I do not want to buy the equipment if the dish will not be able to point to the satellite of my interest.
Thanks for taking the time to reading my long post, waiting for your replies..
Thanks,
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Understood