List of all FTA channels

HighWire · 03-01-2009 9:27pm #1

Apologise if this is a sticky somewhere, but I did a search
and got individual posts about individual stations.

Is there a list somewhere of all the channels that are free to air?

Thanks

CHW · 03-01-2009 9:47pm

On what satellite? Channels on 28E for example can be seen here, with a colour-key to the status (FTA/encrypted/HD/etc) of each entry shown at the bottom:

http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

Zonda999 · 03-01-2009 9:47pm

Try here

watty · 03-01-2009 11:28pm

28E is just one posistion.

Including approx 22 satellites (perhaps via motorised 1.2m dish) you can get over 3500 chs.

This list
http://bytelive.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Free+To+Air+on+satellite

was created by posters here. But the wikipedia and lyngsat are updated more often

HighWire · 05-01-2009 9:56am

OK then, suppose the next really simple/silly question is how do you figure out what the position is?

byte · 05-01-2009 8:29pm

HighWire wrote: »

OK then, suppose the next really simple/silly question is how do you figure out what the position is?

Depends on which satellite you wish to receive.

Trevord · 05-01-2009 9:04pm

HighWire wrote: »

OK then, suppose the next really simple/silly question is how do you figure out what the position is?

You can only point your dish at one place in the sky at a time. Some people add a motor to their dish so that it can move and go from one satellite to another, but most people have a dish in a fixed position (which of course you could move manually, but it's not something you'd be doing every day).

If the channels you want are english speaking and you have no plans to motorise your dish, then you will maximise the number of FTA channels you can receive by pointing at two satellites (Astra 2A,B,C,D and Eurobird). They are so close to each other in the sky that you can pick up both at the same time if your dish is aimed correctly. They are at 28.2 E and 28.5 E. See the lyngsat link mentioned in an earlier post for more details on the channels you can get from these satellites.

Broadly you'd get most of the UK channels you would get if you signed up to the cheapest cable package, plus a range of other music, news, movie and shopping channels. The only Sky channel you'd get is Sky News.

List of all FTA channels

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