Recent content by Rupert

Did TV3 use also C-MAC? Or was it NRK before they moved to D-MAC?

Second motor could also be useful to track inclined orbit satellites. One dish but two motors.

Seems that police has too much spare time to raid pubs. Maybe they should concentrate to real criminals and terrorists, not people who watch tv.

I think f/d of Fortec is 0.38

In Germany I've seen 20cm (or 25cm) dish which was used to pick channels from TVSAT2. It's smaller than BSB-dish.

Can you record BBC HD with DVB Viewer?

Following is not pirating, or criminal hacking: theoretically it could(?) be possible to 1) copy encrypted files to computer 2) then decrypt those files by using computer, software which uses "CSA offline method" and official SLY smartcard Problem is to get official SLY smartcard working with...

It's said only 4 Ku-transponders are working. Some technical problems?

In my honest opinion, I think 9870 is not good for FTA because receiver is most probably married to Viascat card :D 9800 is better.

Well, from Azores Islands could be possibilities to reach 101'W? And Canary Islands maybe to 90'W But it seems that not many C-band (3.4-4.2Ghz) footprints extends to near those islands. Ku-band is practically impossible. http://www.lyngsat.com/america.html http://www.lyngsat.com/ia8.html...

Nokia dbox 1 (first version) was the best digital receiver in 90's, with "alternative" DVB2000-firmware. Some versions of dbox1/nokia9500 have so called auto-symbolrate tuner, which was useful for satellite dx because no other receivers had it during 1997...99. With SCSI-connection dbox1 could...

Why SLY put usb-port to some units? Is it possible to copy recordings out from those boxes? Data is encrypted?

Thanks :) Global beem seems to be similar like it's on Thaicom 3.

Thaicom 5 going to replace 2 and 3? Anyone seen it's footprint?

Not really special. I used product which was meant for "water pumps" and lubricates also when cold weather (if I remember correctly, it was to -20 degrees) Your location does not have sandstorms, really arctic weather, or storms which bring salty water from sea to dish. But those who have such...