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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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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.

By Dave Mathews

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 ...

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