New member introductions

[Lazarus]

Welcome to both of you

 

[pipitait]

I greet all the components of the forum. hi from the italia

 

[satelliteman]

Welcome to the forum pipitait.

 

[PaulR]

Welcome pipitait. Interesting avatar you have!

 

[Lazarus]

Benvenuti nel forum

 

[Llew]

Hi pipitait, enjoy your stay here

 

[hazzardboy7]

hi all.
Ive just joined this forum, looks very good so far, plenty to read.
look forward to being a member here
thanks

 

[Lazarus]

You're very welcome

I see you are a Dreambox user - lots of great info here.

 

[Llew]

:-Welcome1 to the forum hazzardboy7

 

[PaulR]

Welcome to the forum hazzardboy7. Hope you enjoy yourself here.

 

[LoveFrance]

Welcome to all in this forum and have fun!!!

 

[Brisat]

G'Day to everyone from Brisbane, the Sunshine capital of Australia.
I am the owner, sh--kicker and water boy of Brisbane Satellites.
I find it very interesting to see some of the problems others have with satellite gear and installations.
I have just had my ladder confiscated by SWMBO 'cause I put my foot through a corroded piece of metal roofing
3rd accident this year. Lot's off mutterings about silly old buggers clambering about on the roof and not really knowing what they are doing. I know what I'm doing and that is striking a blow for grey power.
Regards
Jim Pettigrove
Brisbane Satellites
_www.brisbanesatellites.com.au

 

[Lazarus]

Nice intro, Brisat!

Welcome to the Forum

 

[Analoguesat]

G'day Brisat

Whats the satellite scene like in Brisbane? Here in Europe we have access to 20 or so orbital slots with thousands of free (and encrypted channels available to anyone prepeared to pay for access to them)

Cant imagine things are that lively over there, but please give us some info

 

[satelliteman]

Welcome to the forum Brisat.

 

[Llew]

Hi Brisat, welcome indeed mate. Yes, give us an idea on what you can locate in the skies down there

 

[PaulR]

Welcome to the fold Jim

Ignore your wife - she's wrong!

 

[Brisat]

G'Day, thanks for the welcome. We are able to get anything between 85-90 deg E to about 180 E
This, of course, includes a fair bit of C Band. The KU is mainly on 5 Satellites all congregated around 160 E
Our main pay tv one is Optus C1 now co-located with D3 at 156 E, D2 which has a little bit of everything,
Italian , dutch, arabian , turkish etc plus 16 channels of god tv. The C band that we can access has a lot of middle eastern and Indian content with many subscription channels included. A look at lyngsat/asia will give you most of our stuff. My main thing is sat TV for caravans and motorhomes which keeps me occupied answering lots of silly questions, the most common being, why cant I get the local terrestrial stations on this thing when I am hundreds of miles out in the backblocks 'cause I only want to watch the football.
I only do the odd house if it is an easy one {lolh}. Seems most of what I get is fixing bad installs.
This originally started as a hobby sort of thing and has now got out of hand as far as equipment goes with a Satlook digital NIT residing in the back of the old Patrol plus all the other gear that you need.
I can't even find time to re-align my own dish to get our main 4 satellites, D2, C1/D3,D1 and IS 8 KU.
Anyway, will be off now and more info later
Regards
Jim Pettigrove
Brisbane Satellites

 

[pmoore31]

Hi All

great site, with lots of information on. Looking forward to spending more time here....

 

[pmoore31]

Hi All

great site, with lots of information on. Looking forward to spending more time here....

Sorry should have said..... I joined last year and have not had time to get back again!! thanks