Getting East Coast Network Stations Caribbean Channels?

[nemo69]

Hello everyone. I am new. My interest in satellite stems from one desire...to see network television at an East Coast time. That way I can get to bed early and not be up til 11 pm and getting up a 5 am. The big pay services make you sign ridiculous waivers and make it hard to do. If I understand FTA, all I do is buy a dish, point it at a satellite, tune the receiver according to published channel information and I get the channel. If I am reading Lyngsat correctly, I can point my dish at the Galaxy 16 sat and get all five networks from the Caribbean channels on that sat.

So has anyone had problems with them? I mean, what about the rain and hurricane season? Is there problems with reception? As far as I can tell, if I choose Fla, NY stations, or national feeds I would constantly have to scan the sky for channels using at least 3 satellites to get the programming I need. At least it doesn't cost per month.

 

[jself1982]

The networks on Galaxy 16 requires a c-band dish, this is a dish 6ft or larger (the old school satellite dishes), a small 31" dish will not receive the Galaxy 16 channels...C-Band dishes are not cheap either but if you are that dedicated just for the networks, then check your neighborhood for an old big dish, some people give them away for free...

 

[nemo69]

OOps

oh, I guess I have to read the chart right. I would have to have some space for a C band because it is a BUD, right?

 

[qwert1515]

Yes, you need a dish that is larger than 6FT (minimum), in diameter. You really should get larger than that.

 

[Mr Tony]

a 6 foot dish will work fine for the Carribean mux. Just a heads up though. A couple of the channels look like crap. NBC & CW are not the best signal (they are compressed). CBS & ABC are the best of them