how many channels minimum are you able to watch and do you need a dish or antennae to install any thing and what about the statelite finders
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Yes you will need a 1 meter dish and a LNB and coaxial cable in addition to the Starcom receiver. If you are not experienced it will be very difficult to aim the dish and set up the receiver. If you are tuned to the 97 degree satellite there will be over 200 channels in many languages.
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We have 2 dishes and have installed many more. We have 13 christian channels. This is all we want. We are very pleased with these little receivers. We will probably install a lot more.
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you do have to have a satellite dish. hope you have better luck than i did. i got one it did not work. sent it back and they sent me another one that also did not work. i have another receiver so i know it is not my system. There support team just said they knew it worked so I just took the loss.
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You can scan as many channels as they offer from your pick of satellite (Telstar5 - 97 W). This is a blind scan receiver. Yes, this is a satellite receiver. You do need a satellite dish. You do not need satellite finder to find the signal. You still can use this receiver and TV to find the signal. Make sure to change the mode of this receiver from PAL to NTSC for United States.
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plz provide me with a phone I will call you and provide you with hoe I feel about this product
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I'm not sure. It would make sense to get the HD antenna & receiver. If you ask Dish HD will be free.
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I'm using DirecTV with mine so I'm not sure if you'll require an antenna to receive the local channel feed.
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you have to have a FTA dish to fact south. Antenna will not work with the box.
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Yes you have to have a dish if you want to watch FTA TV There are many FTA out there it depend on where you are and what you want to look at
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Yes, it's small and light with two receivers and works well. Don't know how many channels you need though.
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U have to do a channel search from the main menu. And then it will find all the available channels thru the antenna
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I agree. The Hopper and the OTA will only work with activated Dish service. As suggested why not purchase a TiVo to record programs with an antenna for reception of the local signals.
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sure, you can get all dish sats, icluding hd channels, this the best box I´ve had, the only problem is you can not get several satellites at one time, you have to use a special switch like EMP-CENTAURI 4X1
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I couldn't get it to pick up anything. I returned it. I bought the app DishPointer Pro for my android and point it at the sky to find the 3 DirecTV HD satellites. We live in RV and move often. I have Direct's SlimLine dish for Genie, and I can have a signal within 5 minutes using the DishPointer Pro app.
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It is no bigger than a direct tv dishIt works great and I pick up 70 channelsI had another one and barely got 3
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We love it. It works quite well for us. We get about 20 local channels. But it will depend on your location, obviously. There are some hills, many trees, and a few overpasses between us and the local TV stations. Only stations with strong signals or medium signals to you will be available. You should be able to find how many stations will be available to you here: http://transition.fcc.gov/dtv/markets/.
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Call dish network and they will walk you throught the initial set up. Also if you don't use the receiver at least once a month you will have to go through set up each time you use it. So be sure to turn it on and let it aquire satalite signal at least one time every month
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Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite needed, so we use same Receiver between AZ and OREGON and every where we go in between...... :) Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite... » Read More Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite needed, so we use same Receiver between AZ and OREGON and every where we go in between...... :) « Show Less
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the thing is Called LMB and no you will also need the dish satellite and receiver. to be able to use dish.
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You would need to purchase a home kit for the unit ( you would also need to be able to aim the antenna out a south facing window) programming starts at $14.49 a month
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Just make sure you go into your tv settings and select antenna as the input, and then make it scan for channels. We use two of these as weather-back-ups here in FL when the cable goes out. I usually get around 20-25 channels