Discussion:
is this group dead
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Jacques Mulder
2003-09-15 21:00:34 UTC
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It seems to be the case since the death of DontPanicTV.
There are a number of Satelites out there within reach and you still only
need a 90cm dish.A good decoder is a must to recieve FTA channels from other
transponders."NOCHOICE" decoders wont do the job.
Have a Look at: http://nictronic.tripod.com/videotransmitter/id4.html
Dunno what happened but this ng seems to have died a slow death. Only
thing on here is a load of spam.
Joel Dorfan
2003-09-16 13:19:48 UTC
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The Chinese channels are on T12 free to air.

For Arabsat you need a bit larger dish, a low noise LNB and a low threshold
receiver.

Joel
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2 portuguese chanels from Angola TPA1 and TPA2 are availible free to air
Picked them up off NSS7 with a 90cm dish in Cape Town and a free to air
digital decoder (not a MultiChoice decoder)....
Now all I need to do is learn Portuguese...
Bought a 2.5m C band dish and tried to get the Arabic channels off Arabsat
with a analogue decoder.
I got picture but very sparkley on most of the channels.
Aparantly you can get good reception in JHB..
Any thing else worth while up there... anybody??
I hear that their is a chinease channel ??
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Mr Satellite CC
DSTV Installation & Sales
Tel: 021 788 6560
Cell: 083 261 5290
Don't think much ever happens on this group anyway... Glad to see Don't
Panic is gone though. Not to mention R2000 a card, some people must be
quite
pissed off now.
FTA channels you can get on a 90cm dish that are worth watching are very
few.
T12 - MSNBC feeds and VOA persia
PAS7+10 - Botswana (wow), Euronews & ETV
MSNBC feeds = 11519 SR3745 FEC 7/8
VOA transmits 12h of C-SPAN another hour of Bloomberg and politics as
well
as pretty much the same content as Wonderfull used to give. Rest of the
time
is Persian news.
Stuff like Mindset's Activate channel and Kanal Austral aren't worth
watching. Activate is school work. Kanal Austral is broadcast from the
Reunion island and is island music intended for people getting ready for
work. Last I checked it was only on from 05:00 - 08:00.
Rgs.
Rob
Rob MacMillan
2003-09-16 14:03:15 UTC
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If you're looking for Portuguese try Intelsat 907 C-BAND. Menasat is on
pas10 ku, also Portuguese.

English stuff available.. (will work with your 2,5m dish)

MBC2 & CNN are on arabsat 2C, in English.
MBC1 has a (not so old) movie every saturday (use the DVB channel). Other
channels like Oman, Kuwait etc have movie at night, older stuff though (80's
and 90's).

CNN in DVB on NSS7 C band if you need to watch the news without sparkles.
Also an Arabic bouquet. Abu Dhabi has a movie now and again (english with
subtitles).
TV5 & CFI (French) also there. (what I watch)

News channels
BBC World on PAS10,
SKY on Intelsat 902,
MSNBC on Telstar 12,
CNN on ARABSAT 2C and NSS7,
Channel News Asia on APSTAR,
CCTV 9 (English) on PAS10.

ETV and MBC2 are enough for me. Why would you want to watch TV if you're
living in Cape Town :-)

Can you get the West African beam on NSS-7?
10986V 30000 3/4 } Just a encoded signal will do
11491V 30000 3/4 }

I haven't tried myself. Could you do me this favour while your dish
positioned there. Probably won't work, but transponders may be combined.

Rob
2 portuguese chanels from Angola TPA1 and TPA2 are availible free to air
Picked them up off NSS7 with a 90cm dish in Cape Town and a free to air
digital decoder (not a MultiChoice decoder)....
Now all I need to do is learn Portuguese...
Bought a 2.5m C band dish and tried to get the Arabic channels off
Arabsat
with a analogue decoder.
I got picture but very sparkley on most of the channels.
Aparantly you can get good reception in JHB..
Any thing else worth while up there... anybody??
I hear that their is a chinease channel ??
--
Mr Satellite CC
DSTV Installation & Sales
Tel: 021 788 6560
Cell: 083 261 5290
Don't think much ever happens on this group anyway... Glad to see Don't
Panic is gone though. Not to mention R2000 a card, some people must be
quite
pissed off now.
FTA channels you can get on a 90cm dish that are worth watching are very
few.
T12 - MSNBC feeds and VOA persia
PAS7+10 - Botswana (wow), Euronews & ETV
MSNBC feeds = 11519 SR3745 FEC 7/8
VOA transmits 12h of C-SPAN another hour of Bloomberg and politics as
well
as pretty much the same content as Wonderfull used to give. Rest of the
time
is Persian news.
Stuff like Mindset's Activate channel and Kanal Austral aren't worth
watching. Activate is school work. Kanal Austral is broadcast from the
Reunion island and is island music intended for people getting ready for
work. Last I checked it was only on from 05:00 - 08:00.
Rgs.
Rob
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