Free TV With An Old Satellite Internet Dish

I’ve picked up yet another old satellite dish, this time a Hughes Internet Earth Station. These are the ones you see on gas station roof tops, in fact I got it from an auction at a closed gas station!. After some experimentation it seems this dish is terrible at weather satellites, but really good at picking up FTA (Free to air) TV! This old one is big enough that it gets more FTA channels than a typical modern satellite dish, but it’s only optimized for horizontal polarization. I had to twist the whole thing 90-degrees to get vertical channels. Unfortunately, as I found with my prior FTA video, 90% of free satellite TV is home shopping, various religions, foreign government propaganda, or some combination of those. It took a lot of fiddling and fine-tuning to get anything worth watching, but I eventually found a satellite with educational, nature, and cartoon channels. I do still have a bunch of other satellite dishes lying around, hopefully I’ll get to those in a future v