We found a Directv dish that was left on a rental house in our neighborhood. The owner called and Directv said they would have someone come get it, but after 3 months, no one came, so the owner took it off his house and left it in the trash. We called him, took it and built our own tripod for it.
We take one of the receivers out of the house, hook up the satellite, manually locate the satellite using a smart phone app and we have all our channels that we have at home unless we are further than 100-150 miles from home. If that is the case, we have the cable networks and get locals using our antenna.