How Free To Air Satellite TV Works
Free to air Satellite TV has been around for over 25 years. You can use your FTA receiver to pick up both free and paid channels, but you can only access paid channels if you have a subscription to those channels, otherwise they will be encrypted. There are over 30 satellites that are transmitting programs to North America, and many of these satellites are unencrypted so if you have the correct dish size and receiver, you can watch a large variety of channels.
You can do this cheaply if you can get your hands on a free dish, otherwise you can check out the Store above for a range of free to air satellite dishes. You can get a good LNB dish for anywhere between $80 and $200. Next you will need to get a receiver. This will be used to scan a massive frequency band for all kinds of channels. Depending on where you dish is pointed in the sky, will determine what kind of channels you can pick up with your receiver.
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I have three dongle based Conaxsat Nano 1 receivers purchased from and installed by a local dealer. Two are on a shared antenna and do not work. The third is on a dedicated antenna and dongle and it works fine. I have been unable to get the dealer to come back. All three receivers are good. The two with no reception are on a single shared antenna and dongle. I am just about convinced that there is a problem with the FTA antenna or dongle setup.
The Nano setup is: IP – 192.168.0.101; Sub: 255.255.255.0; Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1; DNS:192.168.0.1; DHCP: Enabled
Can you tell me how to correct the problem and if you are in my service area what is your service charge?
Call 505-286-1765 Sedillo Hill location. Edgewood, New Mexico
Arlin
All three receivers are operational but the two onlt work when connected to the dedicated antenna and dongle.