I'm from the UK and I'm on holiday in France. We have run freesat for nearly 10 years on a dish/receiver pack from a Home Depot type outfit. This has a card to go in the receiver and it has worked fine. Recently it died and I bought a GTMEdia V7 from Amazon. I was surprised to see that it came without a card and what it found from the Astra satellite (serving western Europe) was over 900 channels, many encrypted, but it did *not* find the major French free to air channels e.g. TF1. Have I just wasted my money or am I doing something wrong? PS it turns out the trouble with the old box was just the 5V transformer so we are back to using that!
In general the bigger the dish, the better. It may depend on your location relative to a satellite's footprint. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DgUCJ4U7gXM.html Look at the following links for a listing of channels currently on the North American satellites: www.lyngsat.com/america.html www.tvrosat.com/cgi-bin/portal_charts.cgi
Hi brother. Can I install fre to air LNB on amy dish or it has to be a specific dish? Like, will Bell dish work if I put Linear LNB on it to get FTA channels?
I avoided the V7 S and bought the V7 Plus instead. It has 4 RCA connectors directly on the rear and a bogus antenna in pal plug with European receive only. Also avoid the Koquit if you need 12 volts. Try the wifi. I'm told the software won't run it. I couldn't get either a bigger DirecTV nor a bigger Dish to make a picture with a linear LNB. You need a heftier dish.
Signal strength (or intensity) is the sheer magnitude of the signal. This doesn't necessarily translate to a watchable channel. The quality of the signal is how much of the desired signal is received by a dish (ie: enough signal to overcome any errors to make a watchable channel). This is where aiming the dish ( and using a large enough dish) are critical; azimuth (east-west direction), elevation (look angle of the dish to the sky), and the skew (rotational angle of the LNB) must all align in order to receive a reliable signal, and therefore watchable, channel.
Likely it will not work. The LNB on DirecTV dishes are circular KU band LNBs. You need a linear KU Band LNB. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qBOVmYHAGWc.html
