Dish to See AMC4?

[Chris Freeland]

At one time I was going to add a 2nd dish to E* for 61.5 and Sky Angel, primarily to receive 3ABN and Safe TV, however I now can receive a decent picture ota for 3ABN on a low power tv station near my home. At this time 3ABN is selling a FTA digital STB with a 36" dish for $199 which will allow me to receive 3ABN and 5 other Seventh Day Adventist channels, Is this a good price? While checking the Lynsat site I noticed several other digital Christian stations including Safe TV, which is also on Sky Angel plus some International channels too and they seam to be Free, am I correct in this assumption? Are these Christian stations back feeds for Sky Angel? What features can I expect with the STB's like epg etc.? How difficult is it to set up and program?

[JohnH]

SafeTV is on the C band portion of AMC 4 and would require a much larger and much more expensive dish. The price you mention does not sound bad. I doubt there will be an EPG available.

[Chris Freeland]

SafeTV is on the C band portion of AMC 4 and would require a much larger and much more expensive dish. The price you mention does not sound bad. I doubt there will be an EPG available.

Yes I discovered that latter, as I posted earlier I can receive 3ABN with good pq and have decided not to go the Sky Angel rout with it's $11.99 per month fee, however I may still eventually go the AMC4 rout to get 3ABN with better pq plus I can add LLBN, ATN, the New Hope Network as well as the bonus of getting 3ABN-Latino ( of course I do not know Spanish or Portuguese ;) ) 3ABN Radio and another SDA satellite radio channel and I believe their are a couple of secular FTA KU-FSS channels on this bird as well.