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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:32:20 -0600, "Faustino Dina"
<ffdina@matusa.com.mx> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>DirecTV is stopping his service in my country. They retired the box but the
>dish stayed intact on my roof. I heard there are some free satellite signals
>on the sky. I wonder I can connect to any of them. Which box will I need?
>How to reposition the dish? Can you point me to free satellite resources on
>the net?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Faustino
>

See Lyngsat.com for satellite listings.

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An mpeg-2 fta receiver,a 1Meter Ku band dish and a standard linear ku
lnbf -at least.

"AH#49 writes" <GRONK@BCComics.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> Faustino Dina wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> DirecTV is stopping his service in my country. They retired the box but
>> the
>> dish stayed intact on my roof. I heard there are some free satellite
>> signals
>> on the sky. I wonder I can connect to any of them. Which box will I need?
>> How to reposition the dish? Can you point me to free satellite resources
>> on
>> the net?
>
> There are indeed many "Free To Air" channles available, but yer not
> gonna see a single one with that tiny dish.
> You need a completely different system.

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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:06:58 -0500, kryppy <kryppy@gmail.cc> wrote:

>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:32:20 -0600, "Faustino Dina"
><ffdina@matusa.com.mx> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>DirecTV is stopping his service in my country. They retired the box but the
>>dish stayed intact on my roof. I heard there are some free satellite signals
>>on the sky. I wonder I can connect to any of them. Which box will I need?
>>How to reposition the dish? Can you point me to free satellite resources on
>>the net?
>
>
>What size dish. GLA Mexico is gone?

AFAIK, GLA never had a Mexico affiliate. Mexico's DBS service was Sky
Mexico, and used FSS Ku on one of the Mexican satellites, or PAS9.

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:59:01 -0500, Gary J. Tait
<classicsat@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:06:58 -0500, kryppy <kryppy@gmail.cc> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:32:20 -0600, "Faustino Dina"
>><ffdina@matusa.com.mx> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>DirecTV is stopping his service in my country. They retired the box but the
>>>dish stayed intact on my roof. I heard there are some free satellite signals
>>>on the sky. I wonder I can connect to any of them. Which box will I need?
>>>How to reposition the dish? Can you point me to free satellite resources on
>>>the net?
>>
>>
>>What size dish. GLA Mexico is gone?
>
>AFAIK, GLA never had a Mexico affiliate. Mexico's DBS service was Sky
>Mexico, and used FSS Ku on one of the Mexican satellites, or PAS9.


Yeah, it needed a universal on p9.

What is he talking about?