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<span>The Ku-band dishes themselves and requisite cabling can.  There is some free-to-air programming on Ku over the states, but not much.  Most of it is on C-Band which requires 1+ meter dishes.  The receivers themselves will always try to find an Echostar bird before operating so they cannot be reused for free-to-air.</span>
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On October 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM Boris Borisov <bugy@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> I have hands on 4 sets of DISH network satellite systems. In my work place they "ditch the dish" in favor of Comcast. Can these systems be used for receiving free (non encoded) programs  from different satellites or not ? Thank you for any advice.
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