[ale] OT: satellite equipment

[alan at alanlee.org]

The Ku-band dishes themselves and requisite cabling can.  There is some
free-to-air programming on Ku over the states, but not much.  Most of it is on
C-Band which requires 1+ meter dishes.  The receivers themselves will always try
to find an Echostar bird before operating so they cannot be reused for
free-to-air.
 



On October 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM Boris Borisov <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I have hands on 4 sets of DISH network satellite systems. In my work place
> they "ditch the dish" in favor of Comcast. Can these systems be used for
> receiving free (non encoded) programs  from different satellites or not ?
> Thank you for any advice.
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