Free To Air

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.

Click here to look at Satellite Receivers and Antennas.