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Michael Kilgore, Denver, USA

DXer REPORT

The North

American

Satellite List

Most of the TV channels that can be received

in North America via satellite come from one

of the large satellite PayTV providers. In other

words, the only way to receive them is to sub-

scribe to the service with which you also get

the required receiver. The actual installation

of the system is handled by contractors to the

PayTV provider and, as you would expect, the

antenna points to one or more of the satellites

from the PayTV provider.

If you want to watch free TV, you first have

to figure out what satellites carry FTA (free-to-

air) channels. This is exactly the situation that

faced Michael Kilgore back in 2003 when he

erected his first satellite system. “I installed a

small dish and pointed it to GALAXY 10R.”

It didn’t take him long to realize that other

satellites also carried FTA channels so in 2004

he installed a second dish with a DiSEqC mo-

tor. “There were more channels up there than

I thought and I began to wonder why there

wasn’t a more consolidated list of information

available on the Internet.”

This led to the birth of the website www.

ftalist.com that Michael started in December