Opinions wanted

[delandy]

I am new to all of this and not all that smart with technical stuff. I do however want to buy an FTA. In the reading I have been doing, I think I want to buy a Pansat 250SM as it sounds straight forward. Is this a good choice ? I do not have a High Def TV, but may in the next year or so. Should I then look at the Pansat 9600HD? Should I buy a dish with 2 or 3 LNB's or is my old dish with one LNB enough ?
Hope someone can give me some answers.
Thanks
Newbie

 

[mike123abc]

You need to ask this in the FTA forum section. This section is about the operation of this web site.

 

[dfergie]

Moved... Welcome!

 

[qwert1515]

For FTA you will need a at least a 31" dish. You can buy as many LNBs as you need depending if you decide to have a fixed dish and want to receiver multiple satellites or a motorized dish that can pick up many satellites with one LNB.

For HD there is not much regular channels (PBS only) unless you get a larger dish for C-Band.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Opinions wanted

That's a pretty riskey question to ask around here. Welcome aboard, the guys are all very knowledgeable and you can be sure they will point you in the right direction.

 

[delandy]

Thanks for the input, I will go to the recommended FTA Forum Section

 

[Davage]

Hi delandy,

You asked if your old dish with 1 LNB was good enough. What type of dish do you have? What's the size? 31 to 39 inch? You could look at a motorized setup to find the occasional sports feeds from the different satellites, or as qwert1515 says, a larger C-Band dish will get some more HD stuff for you.

What size/type of dish are you using now?

 

[delandy]

presently on Bell ExpressVu with what looks to be about a 18 inch dish

 

[qwert1515]

The 18" dish will be too small for FTA.