I have a big 8′ satellite dish which can receive signals from a number of C-Band and Ku-band satellites. I have a 4DTV receiver as well as an MPEG/DVB receiver, so I can receive a large gamut of the broadcast TV signals. I can see satellites from the PAS 9 sat at 58 degrees to AMC 7 at 137 degrees. I could probably get AMC 8, a little further west, but it doesn’t look to have anything of interest. There are several places on the web to find what’s up there.

A lot of channels are subscription based and there is so much flux in the market with channels and networks moving to different satellites that I let my subs lapse for the rest of the year. I’ll look at the smoking carnage next year and decide if it is worth renewing. I find I only watch a few channels, regularly.

But the free to air stuff is pretty extensive. If I understood Arabic I could watch Kuwait TV, Bahrain TV, Iran TV Morrocco TV, Saudi TV , and several others. As well as German TV, Croatian TV, Thai TV, Jeevan TV (Malyalam), Romanian TV and others. And there are various Chinese, Japanese and Korean channels. The BBC signals are scrambled for some reason, as well as the Canadian channels. It’s hit or miss but you can get news from around the world. And if there isn’t a TV channel, there may be a radio channel, in English. It was interesting to get another perspective on the Iraqi Invasion.

Not sure what Rang-A-Rang TV is all about.