Well, I used the standard dish minus the mounting pole and stuff so the dish sat on the carpet and I used a pop can and crushed it with the dish's arm about a third of the way away from the reflector, until I got the right elevation, and I'd slide it for finer adjustment. Definitely not a pro setup, but it would stay put unless there was a riot and someone was flipping your car over! It worked great for me until I bought a new(er) car. I even tossed a blanket over the dish since it is transparent to the signal, that way I got less people staring at it. I used one of those rabbit wireless video senders with remote control repeater, and I could transmit the satellite box to a tv in someones house AND use the remote while the satellite box and rabbit ran off the inverter on the car battery. Friends nicknamed my car the satellite wagon. Ahh, the memories!
Anyways, the Canadian government has done much more than the US to spell out what's legal and what's not, particularly because the CRTC feels that the US DTH services threaten the survival of home grown Canadian programming and our own DTH services. BEV and SC are not licenced to provide service to US residents, but their signals certainly go there and if your paying for it, then you aren't doing anything wrong. I'm sure DirecTV and Dish don't feel like some BEV and SC customers in the states here and there are threatening their survival, nor is the FCC going to worry about the percentage of American content on these services either. What the FCC is somewhat worried about is the reception of local network stations which are not in your market. The local TV stations pressured the FCC to come up with legislation that would require the DTH providers to force subscribers who wanted local network programming to only be able to get it from their local market stations. At first, there was just NY and LA network stations on there because the other 1000+ stations in the country were showing pretty much the same thing, minus the local news and commercials. The local stations felt they were losing revenue to satellite providers since their commercials weren't being seen by people in their market since they were watching a local station often thousands of km's away. So now only people who live in the absolute middle of nowhere can get the national network feeds on DTH and DTV and E* are scrambling to add every single markets local stations to new spot beam satellites they've had to launch and spend millions of dollars on just for that, so that Oprah can be transmitted on 600 different channels at once. Anyways, there are NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, WB, PAX, UPN and PBS affiliate stations on Free to Air Ku band which can be picked up by anyone legally with a $100 box and a 30" dish. This falls under an exemption the FCC made for BUD owners although I wouldn't call a 30" dish a BUD, and coincidentally almost a decade ago the FCC didn't either since the satellite providers, including Primestar at this time which used up to a 36" oval dish, spearheaded legislation requiring localities to allow dishes up to 36" to be installed regardless of local zoning regulations which had previously prohibited any satellite dish being installed in certain areas.
Sorry for deviating from the original topic, but I wouldn't worry about it. BEV's boxes are identical to Dish networks and it would be very hard for anyone to figure out what you were doing even if they wanted to. Enjoy your BEV along with the thousands of others doing the same in the states!
