Unless you are planning on modifying the FTA reciever to obtain illegal/scrambled broadcasts, then any FTA receiver would do just fine since there would be no descrambling necessary. The older reliable units such as the Fortec Lifetime Ultra is what I have (two of them) and htey are still going strong after about 4 years of use. One of the really nice features of the thing is the "blind scan" capabilities. It allows you to set it on a satellite and then scan for active transponders followed by active channels on the transponders. It remembers those as well.
Mpeg KU digital isn't as easy as the analog Ku was. On analog each channel has a specific frequency. On digital Ku, you have transponders which are not standard frequencies and if you don't have a feature that will "find" the SR and FEC automatically - you may never get anything on it. I recommend some older but reliable units which can be had for a very cheap price. Also, be sure you are either hooking this to a C/Ku dish or you will need to have at least a 31 inch dish. Anything smaller will not produce enough signal to see anything anyway. also, be sure if you get a package off ebay, it comes with a linear LNB. Many people are selling units modified for dishnet and those usually come with 18 inch dish with a circular LNB. Won't be of any use to you at all. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:23 AM Subject: [TVRO] FTA > Hi Group can anyone suggest a decent FTA Ku band system to buy i already > have cable but like to mess around with satts and by system i mean dish > and receiver i see some as a complete system on e-bay but i dont have a > clue to is they are worth it or not,,Thanks in advance..Mark (N3DHE) > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > MPEG2 Charts and Info: http://www.global-cm.net/mpeg2central.html > -----------------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! > Groups Links > > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.10 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 12:00 AM > >
