Howdy. My name's Jeff. I've been doing Free-to-air satellite reception for a few months now. It's a really cool hobby, where you use over the counter equipment (well, mostly - probably won't find some of the stuff in a local hardware store, but should be able to find it online at ebay and other places if you don't have a local store that sells the stuff ) to receive free, unencrypted satellite signals so you can watch free tv! It's amazing what's all up there in the sky, in the little manmade satellites, ready for anyone to pick up with the right equipment. I've had my fair share of frustrations with this hobby, but I really love it, and it's really not that complicated either. If I can get it up and going, I know almost anyone can....
It is a little complicated at first, but it's a blast once you figure out what's what, where to find good info, and when you start tons of amazing free tv channels!
It's a bit of a misnomer that it's really free... you do have to pay for the equipment to receive the channels, but once you have that, it's free, just like picking up your local channels with some bunny ears on top of your tv is! That's right, there's lots and lots of free tv channels that you can get without having to pay for any sort of monthly subscription to Dish Network, Direct Tv, a Cable Company, or anyone else!!!
You WON'T get all the channels that you get with those subscriptions, but will get lots of tv channels nevertheless, and overall, the entire amount of channels you can pick up free is really right about equal to the number of channels a cheap cable package would get you, give or take a few movie channels and some other stuff. I plan to use this blog to give you some of the ins and outs of fta, and all the fun that you can have with it.
By the way, if you ever visit http://www.satelliteguys.us, I post there with the username mastermesh. That's the BEST online forum site to find out about the legal free-to-air satellite hobby here in the United States. Lots of other forums exist online that claim to be talking about free-to-air, but some of those sites are talking about hacking... which is using bastardized free-to-air equipment that's been all hacked up with junk software and/or hardware to receive encrypted signals as unencrypted signals. HACKING is ILLEGAL!!!
Don't do it... It can get you in to some MAJOR TROUBLE! I don't plan to discuss hacking here, and would advise you to never think about trying to hack as it's big time bad and lots of companies and local, state, and federal agencies are cracking down on it more and more. It can land you jail time, and/or a lot of fines to pay to fcc and others, and legal fees to various companies like Echostar, and others... DON'T HACK SATELLITE EQUIPMENT!!!
Instead, get in to the free-to-air hobby to enjoy free, unencrypted tv! It's fun, it's legal, and it's a blast!
More posts will come in a couple of days. Stay tuned.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment