Free To Air Satellite TV

Good evening. There is no Scotland or Ireland TV anywhere in the US arc that I am aware of. There are quite a few foreign channels (~125) on the Ku side of Galaxy

1. Mostly middle eastern or Asian, Russian, etc. Ku uses a dish 30" or larger, C-band uses a dish 7.5 ft or larger, with 10 foot being the standard. When looking at the Lyngsat charts, frequencies with 4 digits are C-band, 5 digits between about 11700 and 12200 are standard Ku, and 12200 on up to 12700 are typically DBS pay channels such as DirecTV and Dish Network. The free to air hobby does not include stealing Dish or Direct programming, however there are a very few Dish channels that are viewable without hacking.

Free to air is a good hobby, If I can be of any more specific information, please feel free to e-mail. Pansat's URL is

Lee Richardson Mech-Tech Evansville, Indiana Satellite dealer.

Evansville is a good Town.My little doggy's Pro Pac dog food is made by Midwestern Pet Food,Inc in Evansville.I lived in Martinsville,Indiana in

Anyway, back to FTA Satellite TV.I am Scotch Irish by ancestry and that is why I want to watch live Scotland and Ireland TV.If those two Countries are not in the arc, as you say, then I guess I will forget about it.Thanks anyway. cuhulin

Good afternoon. Yeah, I have never seen anything from there, about the closest is BBC and Deutche-Welle. If you ever see a channel in Lyngsat that you would want and need to know the least expensive way to get it, just let me know.

Lee Richardson

You have to be careful reading Lyngsat. For example, there is one satellite with FTA BBC (several channels), ITV, and a bunch of other U.K. programs. I can "see" it from my backyard with no trouble.

However, I can't receive it's signals. They are concentrated in a spot beam, so you can get away with a small dish in the U.K., but here you can't receive it with a 9 meter dish. :-(

It's not Lyngsat's fault, you have to check coverage maps too.

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Geoff.

Recently, a day or two ago, a guy in Ireland, in an Irish computer newsgroup, he said he wants/wanted to watch ITV. He said, But he can not watch ITV unless he is in the UK.I pay about $55.00 per month for my DirecTV service.Total Choice, something like that. If I could watch live Ireland and Scotland TV with a FTA Satellite TV rig, (legally, that is) I would go for it.

About seven years ago, with my WebTV box, I used to watch taped replays of news, weather, and sports programs from Ireland.Every afternoon around 4:00 PM or 5:00 PM, I used to click on that.Windows Media, whatever it was/is.MSNTV (WebTV) can't/won't allow us webbys (WebTV people) watch those Irish taped replays or other taped replay programs anymore.Those Irish tv station taped replays were stop acrion/freeze action, sort of like on some of those movies we watch on tv.Chuck Harder

Good afternoon. That is correct, there are also many different transmission methods such as DigiCipher, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, standard definition, high definition, etc. This is my hobby as well as business, so if anyone has any doubt about the ability to view any specific signal in the continental US, I will be happy to share what would be required to receive it.

Thanks, Lee Richards>