Satellite System Topology Question

[Anole]

The receiver kit is the microHD and 36" dish from SatAV.
Good choice. Adding an external hard drive or flash drive, it will record shows.
.
The dual LNBF and 3X8 multiswitch WILL let you run one dish/satellite to up to 8 receivers.
.
The motor is an excellent and first rate choice!
Highly recommended over all competition.
But without additional complication, only one of the receivers can control the motor.
That is why I suggested multiple fixed dishes.
.
Yes, there is a trick where you mount two or three LNBFs on a single dish.
Just understand that motors, multiple LNBFs per dish, and even multiple receivers are Advanced FTA, not Beginner level.
?.

 

[UncleMartyBob]

1) What satellite are you thinking about pointing to 1st?
2) ?What kind of channels do you want?

1) Well, honestly I do not know. All the FTA forums/blogs always keeping mentioning (for "American" viewers): Galaxy 19...Galaxy 19...Galaxy 19....which I really don't understand. According to FTAList, most of the channels are in Arabic or Farsi???? ...and of the "English" channels the vast majority of them appear to be either Christian or Islamic programming channels.
The folks who would drop cable to sit around and watch this type of programming all day are the ones the govt should be spying on and flying drones over their houses...not the Tea Party types....but that's off topic.

2) I want to view "normal" programming.....current programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc.. We're Jonesing for The Walking Dead, Perception, Master Chef, and college football is starting soon. Would also like some movie channels with (english-speaking) Hollywood-produced movies that came out in the last 10 years....not all 'oldies' or with english subtitles/captioning. It there ONE fta satellite (easily accessed from the south-east US) that actually provides this? Or, am I going to need multiple satellites and motors and switches and etc.?

 

[northgeorgia]

Choices are limited on Ku-band (small dish) which you've ordered, but you can find a little bit of that.

125W has Create TV (which we don't get in Georgia), World TV (Which we do get...channel 8.3, but not sure if you get that from your location with the wires and such), Montana PBS, Oklahoma PBS, PBS HD East and PBS HD West, as well as several occasional HD and SD feeds.
123W has Washington State TV and the University of Washington TV (usually not too interesting), Free Speech TV, and a couple of Veteran Administration channels. You can sometimes get a CNN feed here, but doesn't usually look good.
121W is for Dish Network. Right now, there's really just one channel ITC other than their slate and setup channel, and that is the "Velocity Channel."
116.8W in the evenings especially, has BYU Latin America, but usually with an English audio option.
113W has the Reuters News feeds.
103W is a piece of work right now, but you can sometimes get NBC stuff here in the evenings.
101W has the Pentagon Channel
99W has Shalom TV
97W has a few English news channels, some sports channels (sometimes in English, but usually in Arabic), Kuwait TV2 (mostly TV shows and movies in English), Ebru TV (all in English), and some of the foreign language channels do occasionally air some programs in English.
95W has an English news channel and a documentary channel, both from China. There is also another channel that sometimes subtitles programs into English.
91W has the ABC news feeds, and is your best bet for sports and news feeds.
89W has North American BYU, especially in the evenings. Some feeds.
87W has Louisiana PBS, the Patient Channel (for hospitals), the Florida Channel, and some feeds for Bloomberg, CNN, and other things.
85W doesn't have anything, but is good for feed hunting.
83W at the moment, has three Luken channels: Retro TV, Tuff TV, and PBJ. Feeds sometimes found here.
72W has a more "toned down" religious channel from San Francisco, and some interesting feeds from NBC/Weather channel.
30W has several Cuban stations with English movies and TV shows. Kuwait channel 2 is also here.

Most of the network stuff will likely require a larger dish and a C-band lnbf.

 

[primestar31]

1) Well, honestly I do not know. All the FTA forums/blogs always keeping mentioning (for "American" viewers): Galaxy 19...Galaxy 19...Galaxy 19....which I really don't understand. According to FTAList, most of the channels are in Arabic or Farsi???? ...and of the "English" channels the vast majority of them appear to be either Christian or Islamic programming channels.
The folks who would drop cable to sit around and watch this type of programming all day are the ones the govt should be spying on and flying drones over their houses...not the Tea Party types....but that's off topic.

2) I want to view "normal" programming.....current programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc.. We're Jonesing for The Walking Dead, Perception, Master Chef, and college football is starting soon. Would also like some movie channels with (english-speaking) Hollywood-produced movies that came out in the last 10 years....not all 'oldies' or with english subtitles/captioning. It there ONE fta satellite (easily accessed from the south-east US) that actually provides this? Or, am I going to need multiple satellites and motors and switches and etc.?

You will never see one satellite with all this available FTA in the US. It costs far too much money to get rights to programming, and to uplink the signal for it to ever pay a profit to anybody that was inclined to do this. IF you however set up a C-band and a KU band dish with motors, and spend the time hunting around, you will be able to randomly find plenty to watch that fits your criteria. But none of it is a sure thing, and it takes a little work. This site is quite good at finding and listing nearly everything that is FTA up there: http://www.sathint.com/