Does anyone here have a c-band satellite system?

and if you have one are some of the channels free? friend is giving his away but it needs another reciever is it worth having a monster dish in my back yard?

Does anyone here have a c-band satellite system?
There are a lot of free channels if you have a FTA (DVB) receiver. A 4DTV receiver will get the analog and Digicipher free channels if it was subscribed before. There's still some free analog stuff but not too much any more. Even subscription analog is becoming less and less. Everything subscription is going digicipher (4DTV) and a lot of the free stuff is DVB. Whether the free stuff is stuff you're interested in or not is something you'll have to decide on your own. I'd get a dual band feed so you can get both C and Ku band. There's a lot of stuff out there. You can get sporting events that aren't televised in your market, live remotes, all kinds of foreign programming, local TV stations from other areas on all the networks, and many unique stations that aren't on cable or DBS satellite. I enjoy it, it's a hobby to me but it's not for everyone. For a listing of channels look at http://www.lyngsat.com It will take you awhile to decipher everything but it is the satellite junky's de facto source of information as to what's up there.
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