Free Satellite TV - 100's of Channels - Low Cost Antenna

[@t4om154]

I'm in the uk and I remember buying a 50cm satellite dish and pointing it to Telstar 12 at 15W West. That particular satellite carried the news feeds from the USA to Europe and you could see the presenters during commercial breaks lol. Some Would swear, take about the weather, flights absolutely everything 😂. It wasn't live on TV but the satellite feed was still live

[@LobsterJim]

Incredible. When was this?

[@t4om154]

​@@LobsterJimHi, I can't remember when, but it was probably around 2012 - 13. The store I bought my satellite dish from bankrupt in 2015 so it was definitely before that

[@sports872]

Is it still possible to get world TV channels in the UK?

[@t4om154]

@@sports872 over satelitte? Most are over the intentet now a day's

[@sports872]

@@t4om154 that would be even more convenient. Do you know where's best to search for that setup?

[@AB-ns8ix]

Hey Peter, thanks for the videos! Started watching your stuff since you posted the Flipper traffic preemption "tool" that I may or may not have tried around the GTA myself :) These sat vids bring back some memories from "testing" everything Sat and FTA related. All the names are starting to come back Pansat, Dreambox, Fortec. Started with Bell 301's with cards, through FTA, all the way until N3 showed up. Unfortunately had to get rid of all my hardware, but that patchbay looks similar to what I had set up at the time with 5+ dishes, multiple Diseqc switches and all the fun that came with them. Good blast from the past and nice to live vicariously through someone while not being able to pop a dish up anywhere on my shoebox condo. Looking forward to more!

[@AB-ns8ix]

@@peterfairlie2296 yup, the good ole days. I still have all the software and notes from those days. I wrote out a modified guide for the 301.13 TSOP lock that made it easier to modify from what was out at the time

[@AB-ns8ix]

@@peterfairlie2296 yes sir, I remember that well. Had a lot of friends with issues. I seem to remember some really eclectic stuff happening (people converting pansats in other model via firmware, etc) I ran IKS on a Viewsat for a while and then got bored as the hobby got boring from there and IPTV took off. I miss staying up at night fighting with a new way of grabbing channels. Keep up the videos! Satellite and all!

[@nathanstaab]

@@peterfairlie2296 I would be all about that series, there used to be a lot of documentation about this on older forums which has somewhat disappeared from the internet these days. It would be cool to get one of the guys that crafted the ECM attack to talk about it since it's nearing the 20 year mark.

[@443DM]

​@@peterfairlie2296 Ah, the digital locks came later. Nagra figured out a way to detect the simple WE line locks, so we had to implement some hardware logic to better detect the test vs. an actual write happening. As I recall, some test function of TSOP required you to go into "write" mode without actually doing a write. Had to use faster AC chips to do it because HC was too slow. Needed to use thin gauge wire to avoid propagation/capacitance problems at the high speeds. Fun times adding all these wires. I started with the 3000 receiver. I still remember "menu-6-3-info-right-left" to get the 24 series EEPROM dump to show on-screen, which stored the channel lockout passwords... (oh yeah, needed to install a lock on that chip too!) Oh, and autoroll on AVRs!!! Ultimately, emulators solved all problems and made everything pretty boring. I think Darkside Diaries would love to do a podcast on all this. Maybe with anons.ca

[@443DM]

@@peterfairlie2296 DTV used to have "F" cards. As they didn't have an ASIC, they could be completely simulated without involving the original card. Used to be known as "batt" cards because they had a coin-cell battery to maintain the SRAM. I guess SRAM was cheaper than flash back then. Supposedly JTAGs were privately used before they came out to fix TSOPs to easily extract box keys. I think JTAG started on the 2700s. The older 1000, 3000, 3500, receivers didn't have JTAGs, so you had to use an AVR with card, desolder the TSOP or, early enough, the BOX keys were stored on the EEPROM (but that didn't last long). Supposedly if your TSOP was "damaged", you could short a few address or data pins on it during startup, and the system would think it was corrupted and re-fresh with an update over the stream.

[@xXBeefyDjXx]

Man that setup is cool. Last year I put up a motorized 1M dish with a standard KU/KA band LNB hooked up to my Android TV for FTA giggles. I've got one of the zGemma H11s receivers which works perfectly for FTA and some encrypted stuff but nowadays here, a majority of encrypted stuff, like "Sky" is using Videoguard with an extra layer of protection so unless you're using a paired card with a provider's box you're straight out of luck for "premium" channels. There are some encrypted channels that can still be decrypted otherwise, some even still using good old BISS. It's very interesting finding the feeds and other random tests, I remember finding some years ago with a provider box just putting in custom frequencies when there was a test MTV service and a few other music channels due to launch, and always found regional feeds too :P

[@orangeduc3129]

How can I decrypt Chanel with $ on fta transponders

[@juniormirandasegura3031]

DXERTFO1R-HGRI

[@loganmacgyver2625]

​@@orangeduc3129I know the answer however cannot give you a full guide apart from a magic word to point you in a direction: CCCam

[@JohnCompton1]

Super lush landscape. Would love to watch my satellite tv back there with a cold drink that had an umbrella stuck in...Thanks so much for sharing!

[@richards200]

Good to see that the free channels you can get haven't changed since I had my motorised dish 25 years ago.. religious, religious, religious 🤣

[@xbmc79]

I have a 90cm dish with a staab rotor. In germany i can receive hispasat 30w without problems. 28.5E (UK TV) works also great.

[@cindyr7407]

This is amazing! I have a cheap satellite receiver I bought off Amazon ($35 after tax), and a free satellite dish I found in a scrap yard. Now I can use this for my camper's TV! I'll have to hunt for a portable pole stand.

[@TheUniversalEyes]

I enjoyed my FTA setup years ago, I had a 3 foot motorized dish, I forget the receiver brand, but it was fun scanning for satellites and channels, found some pretty cool stuff to watch.

[@peterfairlie2296]

Thanks for sharing

[@BrianG61UK]

110 TV channels doesn't seem like that many for a satellite. When I scan Astra 2 at 28.2°E I get 474 TV channels and 55 Radio, and that's just the unencrypted ones.

[@purplepioneer5644]

Missing some important context here, Astra 28.2E is where FreeSat broadcasts to the UK, so of course you get more FTA channels: the channels carry a government-supported free to view television service. You also have all the stuff that broadcasts in the clear from Sky. Satellite television is almost entirely commercial in North America (Dish and DirecTV are entirely encrypted), and these satellites aren’t providing a package television service like Sky or FreeSat. There are also 3 satellites co-located at 28.2E rather than just the one that he tuned into here (Galaxy 19).

[@nine7295]

It's interesting that the LNBF is linear as it looks exactly like mine but mine is circular polarization (Bell / DISH ones). But you have a label on it still good so it's good to tell. Thanks for your videos

[@GROOVETECHSETS]

13:23 That's a channel from Spain, Antena 3. Hahahhaa. Serioursly, I love your videos.

[@im_Polyhedrons]

I believe Greece also has their own branch too

[@rkmklz7562]

Cuba and Mexico!!!..was fun to watch 😊

[@KK4DQQ]

Every time you upload I know it'll be gold before I finish. Maybe you can decode the video stream that's baked into the hughesnet/AOL PIDs. I only got a little with potplayer.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Very nice! Even modding satellite TV antenna dishes getting worldwide channels is something greater to try, lad.

[@davidp4456]

Thanks. I’ve been using this simple cheap set for about 15 years. It works well.

[@dave00011]

How I wish my dreamboxes could be used again ! Had such fun with them

[@dave00011]

I have dm500 and dm800 also a couple of Chinese receivers running Enigma2 or patched firmware. The 500's are dvbs only and don't receive too much any more. Wanted to ask you what you are watching on C band these days. The wind damaged my bud a while back but do not know of much in English worth watching any more so haven't sorted it yet

[@AronBezzina]

I played with dream box back in the day, tested out card sharing a foxtel card, I don’t think card sharing works anymore(for the available pay TV in my location) but I only used it for the fun of getting it to work, didn’t actually watch payTV because the internet had everything I wanted. I have noticed with my new GTMedia box that if I push 6666 while in the network menu a secret menu appears, it looks like my box has soft cams and card sharing built in.

[@AronBezzina]

@@peterfairlie2296 I have the v7 pro, it’s has DVB-S & DVB-T

[@peterfairlie2296]

Get a GTmedia box!

[@timburns2374]

Satellite tv was fun in the late 80's to the mid 2000's. Last time I had my dish active was in the free to air days. I don't see the point in setting up for middle east and Spanish tv other than to practice aiming the dish or just messing around with the equipment for the fun of it. There isn't much good English tv in the clear anymore.

[@bullockserveruk12345]

I’m with you on that. I used to play around with the analogue stuff in the UK when I was 13. As an adult 1w used to be good before they changed the encryption. Used to be able to pick up digitv and use soft keys to decrypt and it was mostly in English. Most of the fta stuff is just total rubbish unless your after non english tv. Iptv is where it’s going. 10 years Sat Tv is going to fade away 😢

[@floridaman7]

I remember back in the day with dish and the FTA files.

[@JBreeze4598]

Hi Peter, thanks for the vid. After you get a signal, what do you first adjust to try and increase the Quality?

[@peterfairlie2296]

First I peek the signal by fine tuning the elevation and azimuth. Then play with the skew by slowly rotating the LNB until you get max Q

[@AronBezzina]

After watching ur vids I decided to play with sat TV again, it was a hobby when I was like 16 but I didn’t know enough so I never really picked up a lot. I purchased one of the sat boxes similar to what ur using and I did a blind scan with the dish that came with the house (old Foxtel dish pointed to 156e - Optus D3). The blind scan found a feed, looks like matallica is having a concert in Texas this month and it’s being shown live in cinemas all over the world, the feed right now is some test screens and a single song’s live recording being played on a loop, I’m guessing so cinemas can calibrate their equipment. Right now the feed is in the clear, do u know if it’s likely that they will turn encryption on before the concert? Or would they just keep it unencrypted? Are feeds usually in the clear like this? Also why were some of the channels u were showing seen as encrypted ($ next to ch name) but u were still playing them? Is that an encrypted channel but with encryption turned off?

[@AronBezzina]

@@peterfairlie2296v7 pro. No $, it looks like an unencrypted 1080i 5.1 stream

[@rkmklz7562]

I had a C Band Dish...in California...I would get everything....I got as far as Europe and Australia....Even if it had snow in the picture 🖼️...but it was fun back in the 1980s and 1990s

[@KamranKhan-mu8uh]

You are a amazing inventorPlease make somthing that i can watchindian or pakistani chanells on your great invention,thankyou

[@peterfairlie2296]

Where are you located?

[@Hardcorelactation]

Could you pls explain a bit more in detail for beginners how it's all connected what does it do etc.

[@rkmklz7562]

I remember seeing Color Bars and back hauls for sports that was cool 😎

[@JohnMarble-bs8bu]

It's great info,for when you decide to retire from working.😂

[@andreivartaci3574]

Hello Peter, great videos ! I'm in Europe, am i'd be curious if you could make a video about internet downloads / uploads with your setup, and how somebody would be able to do this on a low budget using almost the same / similar setup . Also, are there any possibilities of working with just downloading the data from the satelites ? like packages with data directly from a dish with a skystar2 tuner ? Great vids !

[@andreivartaci3574]

@@peterfairlie2296 Thank you !

[@juniormirandasegura3031]

TV-JK.LMPNQRS

[@CarlosCaterpillar2004]

22:46 SMILE (WTPC-TV) 🎵 I get Hungry, to more of you, more of you, GOD. 🎵

[@victoryfirst2878]

What brand of military antenna and model are you using Peter ?? Does the Olive Drab color dish use linary polarity LNB ??? Great video for teaching us all about the subject matter at hand. Well done Sir.

[@victoryfirst2878]

Could I be able to buy the military dish with controller receiver from Army Navy store ?? Thanks Peter. @@peterfairlie2296

[@victoryfirst2878]

They sometimes have stuff from the military. Where could I buy one like you have SIR ?? Thanks @@peterfairlie2296

[@victoryfirst2878]

Oh my goodness. You are super lucky that you have this system Peter. I do not have 50 K to throw around. @@peterfairlie2296

[@supremebeme]

your patch bay is insane lol

[@DreamStarGalaxy]

Will this work in NY What kind of stuff is available now? I used to have a big C band. Loved the wild feeds. Do they still have them?

[@peterfairlie2296]

Yes will work anywhere in the US and the world. Check out Rick's wild feeds: rickcaylor.websitetoolbox.com/?forum=98766

[@powerlotus6099]

I need a cricket feed can I get one for you? 103w 101w 47.5w ect

[@gman83090]

I wonder if you could pick up television channels from viewer access satellite tv vast from here in Australia in the usa

[@bhambhole]

Dumb question but does that GTMEDIA V8 Finder work directly plugged into the satellite or do you need more gear, like a receiver, between it and the dish?

[@peterfairlie2296]

It works all on its own. It's a full satellite receiver and TV screen all in the palm of your hand. See here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2WneHZ6pb6pfaMsi=2w3Wmkv895oHcuk7&t=610

[@simplycircus]

I use two HDHomeRun Quatro devices to get terrestrial TV to all of my smart TV's. Do you know if they make the same kind of tuner for satellite TV and radio?

[@7aylashi]

I used to install dishes for living 20 years ago 😢

[@jockoharpo2622]

Is there a Morocco home shopping Channel? My favorite channel!! Has to be in Chinese though.

[@W6IWN_Radio]

Awesome setup 👌 Are you a Ham Radio Operator?

[@coondogtheman]

Awesome setup. It's a shame that many of the good channels are encrypted. Any FTA movie channels?

[@k2000b]

have an old FTA Pan Sat receiver that was used for the old dish net fta days of the mid 2000s was programed for dish net not even Shure if it even works or not

[@peterfairlie2296]

Probably a Pansat 3500 from around 2006. Older receivers like that can only demodulate QPSK S and Standard Definition satellite broadcasts. Almost everything good has moved on to higher and more efficient modulation standards. I would invest $70 and buy a new GTmedia satellite receiver from Amazon that can do HD, 8PSK S2. Cheers !

[@theblondefoxo]

What Reciver box are you using for that TV ??

[@peterfairlie2296]

GTmedia V8X. All the GTmedia receivers are actually really good and don't cost that much. Can be bought on Amazon.

[@Frisky0563]

I haven't done FTA in about 12 years now. What's left on Ku band? I used to have a 10-foot c band dish, but I miss that it was fun!

[@WarringPacifist]

Great idea, but I don't really NEED hundreds of channels, but not a ding-dang thing worth watching on TV.

[@seasparrow7427]

How many channels do you get all together? I have a MLA 30+ antenna and I thought I was doing good...

[@jeffreykoerber6595]

Do they have English SAP or CC on any of the foreign language channels?

[@peterfairlie2296]

Yes, many channels have multiple audio tracks in different languages.

[@feeatlastfeeatlast5283]

Looks like if you were on an island or remote mountaintop and were a religious fanatic this would be absolutely perfect.

[@peterfairlie2296]

The hardest part would be to pick the right channel. According to some estimates, there are over 4,000 religions, faiths groups, and denominations that exist around the world today.

[@feeatlastfeeatlast5283]

@@peterfairlie2296 If there's money to be made someone will have a religion to collect it.

[@jaymcquown25]

What is the satellite setup you are using that was doing its own scan. ? Cause the motor i have is garbage and does nothing at all until i tell it to move.

[@darrylgrace401]

Will the signal pick up on all tvs in the house????

[@darrylgrace401]

Can you just use old dish and cable and hook to tv as an antenna???

[@bcadventure2015]

Omg you had me in tears at 7:30 lmao.

[@9852323]

Is there anything that a direct tv or dish network dish could be used for?

[@peterfairlie2296]

Yes, hacking Bell kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYbQoXmniNJ3eqM

[@darrylgrace401]

Can you use an old dish network dish? That’s still on roof

[@binky_bun]

The only problem with broadcast TV is people like you aren't on it. It's 99% rubbish. I like messing around with the technology but the content available leaves a lot to be desired.

[@AnthonyChopra]

odd that bbc1 and bbc2 from england is encrypted as thats free to air so not sure how its blocked in other countries if ur on the same band or satellite

[@keybenson]

That dish can't transmit they only receive, you'll require a block up converter LNB.

[@peterfairlie2296]

It has a BUC too, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ_NooOme72bg6s

[@bnk28zfp]

thank you Peter that is very interesting!!! can i get uk channels? or some europe?

[@bnk28zfp]

@@peterfairlie2296 i live in 20 min north from boston

[@scheiepfostierer4652]

What receiver are you using for the TV

[@peterfairlie2296]

GTmedia V8X

[@BallstinkBaron]

This is cool!

[@mikewillis1592]

I can receive literally 1000s of channels here in Europe, but almost nothing worth watching and what was worth watching, like Austrian Formula 1, is now encrypted. Still, it could be worse, you might be in the US where the channels are riddled with advertising breaks every few minutes and there is virtually no real international news to be found.The best solution here in the UK is FreeSAT, though largely the same as are available terrestrially, more HD and more bandwidth. No need for a multi-satellite setup either, just find an old sky dish.

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

Would there be a list somewhere of all the channels that are available? Thank You!

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

@@peterfairlie2296 THANK YOU

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

@@peterfairlie2296 The dish at 15:20 is kool!

[@peterfairlie2296]

Lyngsat dot com

[@markofraser1528]

how do you split to diffrent tv's?

[@porchefamilyfarm559]

hey Peter, where do I find a dish receiver?

[@peterfairlie2296]

eBay is always good

[@FishDS9]

"Back Yar" - Pirate Television? lol j/k

[@gogo9127]

Looks like you received a signal from nileset orbit

[@TheColbysChannel]

i have mine set to 10700 not 10750 Are there any differences?

[@TheColbysChannel]

@@peterfairlie2296 ok because pretty sure mine is a 10700 LNB wideband LNB do I need to change it to 10750 then?

[@cleme4733]

will a directv lnb work for this?

[@peterfairlie2296]

No, It's not the same polarity

[@cleme4733]

thanks@@peterfairlie2296

[@LDCoronel1]

What about the Intelsat35? It's been used a lot here in Venezuela. I don't have any FTA decoder but i want to start looking for satellites. I have a dish and universal LNB. Greetings from Venezuela.

[@deafmusician2]

What is that weird channel where the guy is standing in the kitchen aiming a remote at the TV?

[@sleeze415]

Can you get AFN?

[@peterfairlie2296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGS2l4Gqg7aJo8k

[@natebaer663]

Can pretty much tell why this is FTA

[@stormk-1130]

All that mess for tv xD, is not more easy to just look them in the internet? Or what else you can do with all of that?

[@peterfairlie2296]

Not everyone has internet

[@stormk-1130]

@@peterfairlie2296 Really? internet has become easy to get. Even me living in mexico with my salary of 147 dollars a week for 10 hours of work xD. Im broke as f, but i can pay internet. is like 15 dollars amonth xD

[@peterfairlie2296]

Well it's not $15 for everyone everywhere. My Internet in Canada costs $100 a month. Also the demographics data on that video shows the most viewers are in the 50+ range...

[@stormk-1130]

@@peterfairlie2296 100 a month? lord jesus you must be really demanding. According to google bell is the most famous company in canada and they have package that start at 55 canadian dollars xD, thats 41 usa dollars wich its kind expensive in mexico but you can still pay that. But i guess the inflation in canada must be really strongh, they cant no longer steal resources from other countrys.

[@peterfairlie2296]

I'm a KZbinr and live and work online. The $50 internet is only 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. I wouldn't be able to do anything with that slow a speed LOL!

[@Omdth]

Nice pic sir ji 👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@peterfairlie2296]

So nice, Thanks!

[@DJ29Joesph]

What model is the green satellite?

[@DJ29Joesph]

@@peterfairlie2296 no I found it, I meant the manpack made by C-COM, the MP-100 you seem to have

[@justinkase1360]

Unfortunately, these are mainly channels most people in America wouldn't be very interested in.

[@peterfairlie2296]

There is always more up there, you just have to look. How about premium movies and p0rn? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYbQoXmniNJ3eqM

[@scott1154]

21:19 Crazy Ken Copeland ?

[@toddstanley7804]

110 channels, and nothing to watch

[@yourworstfear]

I get free with no antenna, or dish spread that!

[@gogo9127]

There is a war in suden now days 💔

[@ericmundsinger6]

Great technology however most of those channels really aren't worth watching. A lot of religious channels and foreign language channels

[@MacNifty]

Key word is antenna.

[@ajp2279]

That's what's coming over the southern border every day.

[@greyeagle4388]

100's of channels and still nothing to watch......at least you dont have to pay an arm and a leg for it like the cable companies make you.

[@PaulMc-qn7iv]

Iptv :)

[@Capturing-Memories]

I have those channels and they are all useless.

[@seasparrow7427]

I don't like the fact that there's channels that's promoting possible terrorism here in America..

[@SonicHawk90]

Free TV but also useless TV... Interesting experiment...

[@VEC7ORlt]

TV in the age of internet? Preposterous.

[@peterfairlie2296]

There are a lot of low income and elderly people out there that can't afford high speed internet that could greatly benefit from receiving free digital over-the-air TV broadcasts and all they need is a coat hanger and my instructions.

[@VEC7ORlt]

@@peterfairlie2296 Right, good point, forgot that cable can cost hundreds in places like US.

[@gravityiskey]

to be honest i hate broadcast TV

[@MehmetŞentürk-q3i]

Sanırım sizin ülkenizde parasız tv hizmeti yok.

[@blasianboomboom2006]

Not worth the time and effort if most of those free to air channels you can acquire are mostly religious oriented.

[@user-pf4ye3cl1n]

99.9 just crap channels

[@peterfairlie2296]

If you're looking for premium channels see this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYbQoXmniNJ3eqM

[@johnross1880]

junk

[@PhonePhone-sf8te]

wow, free tv sucks.

[@AkaAka-wc6or]

Morocco / ⵎⵓⵔⵔⵓⴽⴽⵓ

[@peterfairlie2296]

Ooh, a kiss is still a kiss in Casablanca!