What a pile of hobby!
Greetings. Just joined, hoping to get some knowledge and pointers. I am just beginning to dabble in FTA, but when I start a new hobby I'm never satisfied just to start simple...
I currently have dish network to keep the wife happy, since I got fed up with DirecTV pricing, but I've got a farm of dishes out in the yard that I'm trying to point every which direction, including my latest Geosat pro motorized single LNB toy attached to an ebay special TIDESAT 3600 Digital Satellite Receiver Free to Air. I've been successful in finding 4 or 5 satellites, but never at the same time, nor can I catch them in an arc.
I also have a hughesnet dish that I've bypassed the transmitter on and it seems to be where I have had the most luck, since it gives me the strongest signal.
I also have an old legacy box that I am hooking up a dish 1000 and a dish 500 to just playing around with that as well. I realize that I really have a LOT to learn as I have spent countless hours reading this site, going outside to play with the dish, coming back in... giving up and going outside and setting up my laptop, a small TV and the reciever all together on a table right next to my dish and playing til I get something new... My first hit I was able to find FTV and since then I havent been able to get it again...
I never realized how much work this hobby can be!
Ed