What is Free to Air Satellite Receiver?

Free to air satellite receiver (FTA receiver) is used to catch or receive the unencrypted free to air satellite transmissions. These FTA receivers are basically used to legally receive the TV signals of the free to air TV channels. You do not need to pay the subscription fee for viewing these channels. These signals are MPEG-2 video encoded. In most of the places these FTA signals can be received in the Very high frequency (VHF) or Ultra high frequency (UHF) bands.

Now to receive the channels you will require the FTA receiver and the satellite dish antenna that is in accordance with the satellite from which you intend to receive the channels. Some of the satellites require you to have a DTV compliant dish that can be bought from any distributor or the electronic goods store. Both the C and K band dishes will work fine. If you are intending to view channels from more than one satellite then the requirements will increase and you should have antenna
motor as well as LNBF.

Now the next step is to install these instruments. For this you will require the installation of the coaxial cable from the dish to the FTA receiver. This is quite a cumbersome work but you can do it if you have the technical know how. If you are going to hire the experts for this then before hiring them read the manuals, online booklets and then move accordingly.

After this the next step would be the pointing of the dish. Expert would be able to do it easily and even you can set the dish direction very easily. Now you can check online on the website of the FTA receiver for the latest updates and the installation procedures as you will need to install some different firmware also.

SatelliteTV splitting

I once wonder if my satelliteTV setup can be used in multiple TV sets, although currently I only own a single TV, it just cross my mind. I did saw some residential house near mine who has an installation of 2 satellite dish, that set-up could be for 2 TV sets, but hey! a single dish will do fine.
If you ever tried to split the coaxial cable for a cable TV for 2 TV, it is different from the satellite TV setup because we have a Receiver that needs to decode the signals. I've read in some forum that they were able to use one receiver for 2 TV's, the catch for this set-up is that both TV will have the same channel or program since they are controlled by a single receiver (I haven't try this one), at least you can leave your couch and still watch the same channel on your kitchen or bedroom and be back again without missing any portion of the shows (if it is ON). There are two ways in having a this done but you need an extra cash on this, because thre will be some modification on the set-up.
One is to have 2 receivers for 2 TV with a single coaxial cable from single LNB, this means we have to use a splitter for the receivers (this one I've already tried with my friends' receiver and a portable TV), this works just fine and different channels for both TV is viewed, I just don't know yet the pros and cons of this set-up because It is advised by some expert (this is the second one) that rather than splitting the coaxial it is best to buy a dual LNB (can connect 2 coaxial cables) for 2 receivers you will have the same result as of the first with minimal problem I guess (cause from my experience splitting coaxial cable, smells trouble). And because it is more of an advantage for a multiple TV set, cause aside from a dual LNB, there's also a quad (4) and Octa (8) available LNB (there's still some that I don't know of) , of course you have to match this with the receiver on how many TV you want. Well maybe I'll do this in the future if I'll be able to buy another TV.