I have a 70cm dish that used to work fine for FTA stuff, but I haven't used it in years. It's a little bigger than your run of the mill Dish... dishes though.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Tom Hayward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com" target="_blank">esarfl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Raymond Boettcher<br>
<<a href="mailto:raymondboettcher@yahoo.com">raymondboettcher@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I just recently got 2 Satellite Dish's that were originally used for Dish<br>
> Network and was debating on using them to setup Free-to-air Satellite<br>
> Service at my house. However, it seems that there are a few different<br>
> formats that are used for Satellite. But according to what I have<br>
> researched it seems I need a DVB-S2 Tuner/Decoder card in order to make this<br>
> work. I just wanted to know if there was anyone here that is also using<br>
> Free-to-air Satellite Service that has managed to make this work with MythTV<br>
> (in the US).<br>
<br>
</div>The Dish dishes are likely too small to be effective with FTA signals.<br>
FTA signals are typically very weak.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I found a website that talks about this very extensively, but it seems<br>
> they are not from the United States. They also recommended a few S2 Cards<br>
> that work flawlessly with Linux/MythTV, so I'm considering buying one of<br>
> those tuner cards to expand my MythTV Channel Service. I just want to make<br>
> sure that a S2 Card is what I should be using in the United States.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, DVB-S2 is what you want.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I was also looking through Schedules Direct and it doesn't seem that<br>
> Free-to-air is listed as one of the options, however, several other<br>
> satellite providers are listed and one of them looks like one of the<br>
> providers for Free-to-air. However, I know that Free-to-air does transmit<br>
> EPG Data over their stream and hopefully I'm right in assuming that leaving<br>
> the tuner set to EIT Scan will also work with a Satellite Tuner Card as<br>
> well.<br>
<br>
</div>Schedules Direct is working on FTA support. I was setting up equipment<br>
so I could help with an alpha test and ended up not being able to<br>
receive must (see weak signals above).<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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