February 2006
Beginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English

Pick up a used Primestar dish for under $50 (check eBay) and use it to watch free satellite television.
Photography by Dave Mathews
LEGAL AND FREE DIGITAL SATELLITE TV
Use a long-obsolete Primestar dish to pull in a wide world of programming.
In 1999, the home satellite TV provider DirecTV acquired one of its competitors, Primestar. The DirecTV and Primestar systems relied on different microwave receiver hardware, so when DirecTV upgraded the 2.3 million former Primestar subscribers to its own mini-dish antennas, it made obsolete all of those Primestar dishes, leaving them out there, unused. This article explains how you can modify ...