Fta Sats

[johnny_baker]

Just wondering what are the best fTA sats that people are using now a days? i'm on 97 w now but hardley any english. I live in newfoundland, canada


P.S thanks to everyone on this fourm for all the advice, you've been great..

 

[bidaw]

G10 seems to be the place everyone wants for english programming.

 

[johnny_baker]

sh*t, i can't get g10 because there is a hill behind my house and i'm pretty sure i can't get anything under probley 15 degrees. got any other??

 

[mastermesh]

www.lyngsat.com

Just a guess - the Atlantic satellites are probably in your range?

 

[johnny_baker]

and what are the atlantic sats??

 

[brentb636]

http://www.lyngsat.com/atlantic.html shows the Atlantic sats, but there's not a lot of English programming there, either.

AMC 3 (87W) has several PBS channels on it.
InstelSat 8 (89W) has ABC News Now, a continuous news line on it.
AMC 5 ( 79W) has NY horseracing channels and a lot of news feeds.
AMC4 (101W) has FOX 64 on board.

Except for Galaxy 10 (123W) there's not a lot of english language on any one bird.

 

[johnny_baker]

man that bits i'm better of with 82w, does anyone know whats on this sat for channels that are good??

 

[brentb636]

If there's anything free on 81W, there's only maybe one channel. One of the birds has a fine arts channel in the clear. You need a motorized dish on top of that hill, and you'd be a lot happier !

 

[johnny_baker]

i know but there is no chance of that, it is long..but i get quite a few sat but they need to be high, got any idea of any sats that are like 30 degrees or higher?

 

[mrweather]

Global Communications has a page where it lists the point angles for all the satellites you can see, based on your location.

For NL take a look here:

http://www.global-cm.net/angCANADAEASTMAJOR.html

 

[johnny_baker]

cool that help, thanks man

 

[Eastcoast]

I also live in NFLD and its good to know there are some others here that are trying FTA.

Dave