[BC] The place for OTA TV

[Xen Scott]

At 03:23 PM 7/22/2014 -0400, Henry Ruhwiedel wrote:
>there is almost no open programming on C band.  Most is MPEG on Ku 
>band.  I would want a larger than 1 meter antenna for that...    If you 
>can find an old TVRO home receiver that has the sats programmed in for 
>auto scan, you can enjoy a lot of TV for free.
>
>Henry,  (7th in the us to have a home TVRO. :-)
>

My Manhattan MPEG receiver works excellently with the two 85cm and two 90 
cm Ku Band antennas I have.  The
85cm antennas each have two LNBFs on them for adjacent satellites.   The 
four Ku-band antennas are fixed position
which works best for me.   My 1.8 meter (6 ft.) fiberglass antenna is 30 
years old and still works just fine on C-band.
It is motorized and set up for both C Band and Ku Band using a 
Chaparral  Co-rotor II feed .   I have watched plenty
of network programs on C Band with my 1.8 meter system.  Satellite 
selection is programmed into the Manhattan
MPEG receiver.   I built my own positioner/controller for the 1.8 meter 
antenna.  FWIW, one of the KU Band antenna
LNBFs is for receiving music programming from WCPE-FM.  There's lots of 
free radio programming on satellite.

Xen Scott