Very basic newbie question. Help would be appreciated

[frank95]

Hi,

First of all let me admit that I do not know anything about Satellite tv other than seeing the dishes on some roofs

That being said, I had a very basic question and this is it: I live in US and wanted to get some international programs. Lets say that I want to setup two different programming on my satellite tv. For argument sake lets say I am interested in the European channels and I am also interested to see Asian channels or Arabic channels.

Do I need to get two different systems or is there a system whereby I can choose the programming that I want to watch. If I want to watch soccer, then I switch to one of the European channels (provided that there is a soccer match on at that time ) and if I want to see some Samurai movie then I switch to the Japanese channel.

If you know a single system that does the above please let me know. Also if there is any recomendation on the installers available in Northern California, I would greatly appreciate that as well.

Thanks in advance for your help

Frank

[DruzeTito]

Frank

You don't a different receiver for each type of channel. Your first step is to find out which channels are available for free on a particular satellite in the sky. Can you tell us your location?

[frank95]

I am in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay area

[DruzeTito]

so you would be able to see Telstar 5 and Galaxy 10R, those are the satellites which have some good international channels. Are you looking for any in particular?

[frank95]

Hi DruzeTito and thanks for your replies. Yes I actually would want to watch the European soccers ( as much as they are available in English or Italian and also be able to watch Persian programming and as I mentioned before if available then Japanese programs as well... Any recommendation on the systems?

Thanks again,

Frank

[DruzeTito]

A fortec star system would be fine. Check out http://www.lyngsat.com/america.shtml and click on Telstar 5 or Galaxy 10R and check out the channels that are free (they are white and have an F picture by them) Just don't look at the C band ones, which have 4 digits in their frequencies. These will be the first ones in the first big table, then the next big table are all the Ku band channels you can get. I don't know about European soccer. Thats hard to come by for free these days.

[frank95]

Thanks a lot for the info. So let me get it right, I just need one receiver and one dish and then I can switch between different satellites Telstar 5 or galaxy 10R or for that matter any other ones in the link u sent me? How is that possible? Wouldn't they be in a differnt orbit and locations? Would that mean I need a motorized system so it can track the different satellites?

Thanks in advance and sorry if the questions are kinda stupid

Frank

[DruzeTito]

If you want to switch between satellites the best possible way is using a motorized dish. Very hard to install, but after you install it and everything works the time put into it will pay off. You also can get a dish and lnb for each satellite but I dont think that is too economical.