A Tour of My FTA Satellite Dish Collection

A Tour of My Free-to-Air Satellite Dish Collection for receiving FTA TV and Radio Channels in North America.

FTA Satellite Video Playlist:

[Hopperthekangaroo]

I have a dish 500, 1000.2, directv slimline I use for FTA use WITH THE ORIGINAL LNBS and they pick up stations perfectly!

[ryanzyla]

Park that 6 foot on 103w. There are really strong transponders on that satellite. I would love that size of dish. I have limited space. Good video

[zandig]

Hey Northcoaster, I'm north of my town, just looked out back behind this store and I see 3 ku or c band dishes one is not the wire mesh type but solid like a giant satellite dish 👍👍📶 they look 8' (??)

[Hopperthekangaroo]

I did manage to hook up a directv reciever and get free channels with the 101W satellite

[Hopperthekangaroo]

The dish network wally is a great signal amplifier in my experience for FTA or OTA hookups

[kensmith]

One of the only dishes I have it holding up my lunch right now. I get a lot of channels just from my antennas and among them are the ones I care to watch. Where you are, your situation is very different.

[zandig]

Very cool sir !! I can just feel all that free signal 📶 😂😂
Are you not a uhf/vhf guy ??
Those dishes do look more presentable and orderly compared to the 24 bays ive got on my roof 📶🤣

[stanleybest]

I've flunked with a few dish and direct dishes. I use a red LED digital meter with tone and it also homes me in on ground interference. 97 west and a bunch in the middle are blocked. My LNB is a Bullseye BE01. I have grabbed a few transponder lists but no pictures.

[sellacct-cc]

Thinking about getting back into the hobby after 20 years. Is it worth it? Doesn't seem so. I mainly like live feeds and back hauls. Are there still a lot of them? And is it worth getting a motor to move the dish? I'd be happy parking the dish on one great Ku bird. Thanks.

[Hopperthekangaroo]

Is it OK for the dish to move slightly in the wind?

[zombienoob]

I thought analogue broadcast was ended in 2021, Googling and reddit says there are only a few small places in the us that still broadcast but as of 2023 that ended.

How come everything says this can’t be done in 2024?
How much longer do you think you’ll be able to get stations before it’s actually all gone?

[JohnLight]

I would like to see a video on what content is available with the satilite dishes. You mentioned Infowars, which I thought was out of business. NASA is going to shut down. PBS is still available. It think there is some religious stuff. What else is available?

[CSXRailfan]

Have you been able to get 101 and 103w on your c band dish I know with certain ones it’s possible

[unclefester]

Nice but You must not have a wife tellin ya to make a choice🧐😯🤣

[anwarzeb]

Love from pakistan
In my area
We have lots of indian channels