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DIY: Find Azimuth and Elevation for your Dish:

freetoair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:06:35 +0000

Great Resource to calculate the Azimuth and Elevation for the Satellite Dish in Your Town,

To find the Azimuth and Elevation for your dish:

Select the required satellite in the “satellite” table.

Select your location in the “location” table and click on “calculate look angle”.

If the satellite you are looking for is not located in the “satellite” table, simply enter its location in the “longitude” field.
If the location you are looking for is not located in the “location” table, simply enter its location in the “n lat” and “w long” table.

The azimuth reading you will get is geographic, to which you must apply magnetic deviation.

For the calculator and complete instructions Click Here

What is (FTA) Free To Air

freetoair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:52:25 +0000

Free-to-air (FTA) television (TV) and radio broadcasts are sent unencrypted and may be received via any suitable receiver:

Free-to-view (FTV) is, generally, available without subscription but is digitally encoded and may be restricted geographically. Neither of these is pay-TV, which is an encrypted subscription (or pay-per-view) service.

FTA is sometimes delivered by satellite television, but in various parts of the world free-to-air television channels are broadcast unencrypted on UHF or VHF bands.

Although these channels are described as free, in some cases the viewer does in fact pay for them. Some are paid directly by payment of a licence fee (as in the case of the BBC) or voluntary donation (in the case of educational broadcasters like PBS), others indirectly by paying for consumer products and services where part of the cost goes toward televisionadvertising and sponsorship (in the case of Japanese television broadcasters like TV Asahi and TV Tokyo which relies on sponsorship heavily). One further variation is in Canada, where theCBC Television/Télévision de Radio-Canada network is partly funded by taxpayer dollars, and otherwise supports itself with commercial advertising revenues as it competes with other freeover-the-air commercial networks. more

How to Install 8psk In Viewsat HD

freetoair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:20:31 +0000

This youtube video made it really simple to install 8psk, unfortunately right now none of viewsat HD Receivers come with 8psk preinstalled, not even in new Max HD, here is how you can install it fairly easily.

Dish Network Certified Unemployable Person

freetoair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:40:34 +0000

Dish Network sent ECM on OCT 27th, here is a great site to get the new keys

Dish Network also sent a personal ECM to me, If someone got the keys for this perticular special ECM, Please share ASAP..:P

Dish Network Certified Unemployable Person

I actually tore it to peices, but then I thought, hmmmm… took me 10 min and a lot of tape to put it back together, reinstalled the driver for the scanner I did’nt use in ages and wallaaaaa.. Its a Priceless masterpeice.