That's true...you do not need satellites to do what can be done with land based antennas, receivers and transmitters. In fact, in many ways it is better. It is just hard to believe that so many people work in the so called satellite industry and have not exposed the truth...they simply don't exist.
Most people that work in the satellite industry are merely dogs bodies. They have no more clue where the real signal is coming from than anyone else, except for those at the very top.
Signals can be bounced off the ionosphere and as you say, land based transmitters are all over the place, plus a sea full of communication satellites, known as ships.
All they done was conned us all into having a dish installed and a decoder, the gave us what is already there, only we pay through the nose for it whilst they pretend the cost is because it's so expensive to put satellites into space. It's one hell of a ruse.
Why do you think they call it sky TV.
So what do satellite dishes do?
They just pick up a signal just like an aerial would do from gound based transmitters, then use a decoder box in your room to con you into believing you're getting it from a satellite.
You even have to adjust a TV aerial on your roof for the best signal. All you dish is doing is having to channel that signal to the reciever, then your decoder unscrambles the signal if you've paid for it.
All this accurate alignment to a satellite is absolute bollocks. As long as your dish can catch the signal and rebound it accurately to the reciever, you're fine. It's a little bit more tricky than adjuting a TV aerial but not that much if you have the angle reasonably right.
Do you want to find out how easy it is to do?
Anyone that wants proof of what I'm saying and is willing to try this out PM me , then you will know for sure what you're dealing with.
Where are the tranmitters, given that all dishes point to a position over the equator for a given service?
For a given service? It's just transmitters feeding areas. It's just scrambled signals passed off as directional satellite crap. You can't watch it unless you have a decoder just like the built in decoder in your free view TV that allows you to have what they decide.
It should be blatantly obvious that satellites do not exist.
Who's sending them up now that the fake shuttles out of service, because Russia has only been sending circus clowns up to the fake station aided by flute playing, guitar playing goon actors pretending they're trained astronauts.
Why stick something 23,000 miles into space that cannot be reached for repair and all work fine despite the harsh so called environment and yet there's absolutely no back up at all to race any satellites up to replace should some break?
It's so ridiculous it shouldn't even need much thought to see how bloody stupid it all is.
You'll soon see how ridiculous it all was and is when they start to decommission them...but not before telling you that your will soon lose your sky services, unless you want to change to a new invention that has managed to harvest blah blah blah signals from (add in any old scrotum) but it will cost you another 200 a year.
All you will get from that point is what you've been getting all along, except your sky TV dish will be replaced by cable what many already have, except that this will be passed off as something entirely new.
If people can't see how they rip the absolute piss out of you, then I feel sorry for you.