What receiver needed for NASA

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Pixl

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Hello,

I lost my free NASA channel from Dish network last week. I have an old 6 ft. C band dish and LNB installed in the back yard, but the receiver is long gone. The dish has fixed az/el mount. Since I haven't messed with satellite stuff for some time I'm not sure what I would need for receiving NASA.

Jim
 
NASA on AMC3 ( 87W) C-band is a strong signal. I pick it up easily with my 4 foot dish/lnbf mini-BUD. If you can manually aim the dish, most any FTA receiver will work. What did you use for NASA on dish network ?
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yeah any DVB receiver will work fine

I've used everything on NASA from the azbox to an old Viacast that has only 10 transponder input. There are 4 channels in the NASA mux...a 5th pops up from time to time and is in HD
 
Brent,

I was using a Dish 3000 receiver that I had bought new many years ago, but had dropped the sub when cable internet/tv package came along.
 
im pretty sure it is a 4 channel mux. 3 sd channels that any fta reciever will scan and view. 1 mpeg2 hd channel that any cheap fta hd reciever will view.

crackt out,.
 
sure

You can check Ebay or our sponsers

some good ones for SD only are
Coolsat
Pansat
GeosatPro
Fortec
 
Ok, thanks for the advice. So I'm looking for a DVB receiver. No other requirments or specs needed?

what dish options do you have at you disposal ? a small dish means you only want the cheapest of sd dvb fta recievers. if you have more signal then you may want a reciever than can cope with what your dish can see.

crackt out,.
 
im pretty sure it is a 4 channel mux. 3 sd channels that any fta reciever will scan and view. 1 mpeg2 hd channel that any cheap fta hd reciever will view.

crackt out,.

actually the 4th channel is scrambled for NASA only...there is a 5th channel that pops up when its HD (during the launches)

The SIDS right now are 101-104 but according to NASA 105 is HD

NASA TV HD Programming:
HD Program = 105
Video PID = 82
AC-3 Audio PID = 238
MPEG-1 Layer II Audio PID =83

the pids are different for the other 4 according to the list

http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php?page=C+87+AMC+3
 
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