There are lots of resources on the internet to help when you’re tinkering with your FTA setup. Let me mention a couple of them that I should have talked about earlier.

First is Fortec Star’s Video Learning Series. Some of these online videos are meant to help with Fortec receivers, but most of them work for anybody who’s ever tried to set up a dish, or who just wants to understand more of what’s going on with satellite TV. There's a lot to watch here.

The second is DishPointer.com. That is one great domain name. The site starts with the idea I presented in the first installment of this series, then automates it to a degree I never considered. (Mind you, the folks at DishPointer probably thought of it all from scratch.) It is a very cool tool, and one of these days I might add its widget to FTAList somewhere. Maybe I'll start by using it as an illustration for this blog entry.