New to this forum, but I am a BUD satellite user also ( and also in Oregon).
All the channels above are absolutely free, IF you have the
equipment to receive them and IF you have a clear line of site across the southern arc of sky. You can get almost any channel. . In particular the stuff listed on G10 is useful because there is so much in one location. Most of it only needs a 1M (39") dish to get, but there is a lot more if you have a 6foot or larger dish.
There are hundreds of free channels up there that can be found, as well as subscriptions available if you have a 4DTV receiver for the big dish. Most Movie channels are lower in price on the BUD than the little dishs and there are many more of them available ( for instance there are 18 different HBO channels versus the 8 that are offered on DishNet), but the price is cheapest when you pay for a year in advance. However, the cost savings is offset by having to buy and maintain your own equipment, and there are far fewer
HD channels to subscribe to than the pizza pan dishes.
There are also free NETWORK feeds available that allow you to watch from diffrent time zones on the BUD and
FTA receivers, which is not allowed on most of the pizza dishes anymore. With some of the newest receivers you can watch most of the Networks in
HD on all times zones using
FTA receivers. However, these feeds move around sometimes from satellite to satellite aand require you to reprogram or find them again. There are many good web sites that help and are dedicated to those searches and the equipment used. The key is that you have to have a moving dish and a newer receiver, and that means it takes some time for the dish to move from one satellite to another. So the convenience factor of the little dishes having all the channels instantly available is not there.
I currently have both Dish Net and Bud subscriptions as the combination , plus all the free feeds give me about 1000 channels.
Sadly, most of the time, there isn't much worth watching on most of the channels, and there is a lot of duplication also.
This site shows all the satellites up there and if you open up the Frequency listing on one it lists the channels that have been verified to be there (usually for a while). Many are unavailable because they are encrypted in some way, but any that have an F in the center column can be received with most
FTA receivers.
North & South America - LyngSat