Your dealer should know what size dish(es) you need, etc. Also, Google for information. Sadoun Satellite Sales, Daves Web Shop & others have lots of gear & are willing to answer questions. Here in North Carolina, we get by with a 1 meter Ku dish fixed on Galaxy 25 @ 97.0 degrees West. There are well over 100 FTA channels there, mostly foreign, mostly in unfamiliar languages. Channels come and go there. But if news appeals to you, Russia Today, Press TV (Iran), Al Jazeera, & NTA (Nigeria) are there in English. Channels there from Haiti, Vietnam & Morocco have some French language news. Burma, Taiwan, China, Thailand & some others have some English. I have seen no Japanese there.
Then we have a C band 8' dish which mainly sits on AMC 1 (103.0 degrees West) for the DW-TV station. This is a German Government station from Berlin. About 60% German, 40% English, high quality relatively unbiased news & features. In Nova Scotia you will need much larger dishes, I am sure. Be sure you have an installer who has experience in roof mounting. A roof is not as solid as a ground pole. And a poorly installed roof mount can result in a leaky roof. Do not even consider mounting a C band dish on a roof. Good luck & let us know the outcome. RAK VA1CQ wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the feedback. I'm lucky to have just discovered in my local > city a dealer with decades of satellite TV experience who also > specializes in receiving foreign stations. I will be taking a trip to > his shop to take advantage of his knowledge and products available. > And he has lots of equipment/dishes set up so I can see how it > performs before choosing. > > I plan to keep my conventional cable for now with the usual channels > and (too much) sports! With a combo package of phone, Internet, TV, my > monthly fee is about $60 plus tax for the TV portion which includes > extras like HBO and other quality movie channels. So I am only > interested in FTA; I don't want any more monthly subscriptions. > > It would be nice to find Japanese language programming which can't be > purchased for any price in eastern Canada; nobody offers TV Japan! It > used to be FTA on Galaxy 13/Horizons 1 on C-band but is now encrypted. > And that sat at <10 degs is too low for me from this location. > > My strategy will be to get the biggest motorized Ku-band dish I can > manage with a flexible receiver (hopefully PVR too) and leave C-band > alone. I have lots of tree cover that has appeared this spring in my > yard so any dish will likely need to be on the house roof and an exact > spot carefully chosen to maximize exposure to all directions. > > Murray > > >
