Welcome New Members! (Please Say HI here!)

**Free-TV** · 02-09-2010 12:24 AM

Hello. I'm a new member here, and look forward to being a part of this sites discussion forums.

**Roostor** · 02-09-2010 04:35 AM

Hi...I am an old timer, but a new person at this FTA stuff....I'll be checking out the forums and trying to find out what all I need to get into it. I have some old equipment given to me that I was told was used before they made it to where you could only get signals through a paid subscription (DirectTV or Dishnet), I guess it was pirating or whatever ya'll call it. But I see on here where you guys are able to get some FTA....I guess I am totally confused now; how do I get started? I don't want any thing that is illegal...I have cable for movies, etc...I just want to be able to see NASA and PBS and stuff like that. Can someone point me towards the right forum or give me a link? Thanks in advance.

**Ramy** · 02-09-2010 08:14 AM

**stimpson** · 02-09-2010 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Roostor

Hi...I am an old timer, but a new person at this FTA stuff....I'll be checking out the forums and trying to find out what all I need to get into it. I have some old equipment given to me that I was told was used before they made it to where you could only get signals through a paid subscription (DirectTV or Dishnet), I guess it was pirating or whatever ya'll call it. But I see on here where you guys are able to get some FTA....I guess I am totally confused now; how do I get started? I don't want any thing that is illegal...I have cable for movies, etc...I just want to be able to see NASA and PBS and stuff like that. Can someone point me towards the right forum or give me a link? Thanks in advance.

Here you go Rooster, and welcome. We are glad to have you.

**msmith198025** · 02-09-2010 08:57 AM

Welcome new guys and gals!

**Bobby** · 02-09-2010 10:39 AM

Welcome sfour001, I'm sure you'll get your answer here.

**benchtechjohn** · 02-09-2010 10:41 AM

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to drop a line and introduce myself.My name is John and im a bench tech for IDE.I been doing this for a little over a year and find myself almost pulling my hair out with some of these problems that can't be fixed over the phone.So i joined the forums to see what else is out there and maybe find some useful tools I can use.

**Bobby** · 02-09-2010 10:51 AM

Hi benchtechjohn, welcome.

**greynoodle** · 02-09-2010 12:22 PM

New to the forum. Very interesting comments throughout. I'm not sure I will be able to offer constructive help, but I enjoy reading the suggestions, complaints and rants. I'm just an old fart that enjoys his tv. I have two reasons for joining this forum. One is the hd on Dish local channels, every evening around 8pm eastern, we lost the hd locals, but can see sd channels ok. This lasts until midnight and sometimes longer. This has been happening for about 5 months. Weve had home visits by "technicians", replaced receivers and cabeling, replaced splitters to no avail. Have talked to Dish advanced tech support and finally just gave up and switch to sd during the time frame of trouble. The other problem is with tv2 . Just started a few days ago. Just get snow. Went thru tech support and advanced tech support, plus steps provided by Dish trouble shooting suggestions. Thanks for listening, Greynoodle!