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The World’s Largest Satellite Magazine EUROPE 5.90€ UAE 25.00D BAHRAIN 2.50D KUWAIT 2.00D JORDAN 3.00D KENYA 200Sh PAKISTAN 175/-Rs VIETNAM 45000D DENMARK 44Kr KSA 25.00R QATAR 25.00R OMAN 2.50R LEBANON 5000LL NIGERIA 350N INDONESIA 30.000,-Rp NEPAL 200NR 2006 26 02-03 th Year Nº 191 Year TELE SATELLITE £3.95 DISPLAY UNTIL SoR 25 MARCH 2006 INTERNATIONAL Amazing New Satellite Receiver with Built-in PVR and Direct USB Link to PC Super Machine C-band With a Small Dish? Is That Possible? 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However, the sat- ellite data on display will be either from last time you performed an update, or from the time when original software has been compiled. By default, each SatcoDX software contains the set of satel- lite data as current as when it was compiled and put together. ABOUT. The third line tells you the version installed on your The SatcoDX software contains all the techni- computer cal data from every satellite channel around the world, plus the ability to update the technical 2. Enter the Activation Code by data via the Internet at any time (the update clicking LICENSE and then REG- license is valid until the publication of the next ISTRATION. After entering Acti- issue of TELE-satellite). vation Code click VALIDATE KEY The software contains many additional features and EXIT. Now you are ready to to help you sort, find, print and export the data download the newest satellite tran- in form compatible with automatic receiver pro- sponder data anytime you want, pro- gramming vided your computer is connected to Save Chart Data in many useful file formats Complete Channel Lists from Every Satellite With all Technical Data Automatic Display of all Receivable Satellite Channels Automatic Programming of SatcoDX Compatible Receivers Data Updates via Internet Anytime via Main and Backup Servers Print Channel Lists in HTML Format CONTENT EYCOS S50.12 PVR Digital Satellite Receiver with PVR Function .................... 14 Dear Vantage VT-X111SCX Digital Satellite Receiver with embedded Conax ............. 18 Readers Kathrein UFS 821 And just when you think that Digital Satellite Receiver everything that could be discovered with PVR Function .................... 22 has been discovered, here comes even more new stuff. In this issue of TELE- satellite we will be reporting on more found – trying to use something known than one new idea. For example, a in a different way. We have another Star Sat SR-X2500CUCI 4-way LNB with which four different example in this edition: a homemade Digital Satellite Receiver with satellites can be received. When you parabolic dish. Financially it probably 2 CI slots and universal CA ....... 24 see this LNB, you might ask yourself, wouldn’t make any sense to do this what took so long? This is a typical since production dishes are typically case of “I could have thought of this less expensive to get. But this has too”, except that no one came up with nothing to do with money at all. It is such an idea. all about experimenting and possibly discovering something new. DGStation RELOOK 400S Digital FTA + CI 2 PCMCIA It’s somewhat different with the twin tuner satellite receiver spherical antenna with external LNB’s And I can tell you now that the and PVR ................................. 44 – the reaction here is more like “I next issue of TELE-satellite will also never would have thought of that”. introduce some new ideas that neither The maker here went in an unfamiliar you nor we had yet thought about. direction and stumbled on a solution The satellite industry is always good that was unexpected. for surprises! BEL 5518 Digital Settop Box satellite receiver ..................... 48 And then there’s the experimentation Sincerely, of satellite DXer’s out of Canada who Alexander Wiese simply swapped out an LNB in the existing small antenna. The reaction here is “I would have also come up P.S.: My favorite radio station of the TechniSat Multytenne with this idea if only I had taken some month: WRn'B (12.692 H, 27500/3/4/ Satellite antenna for time to think about it”. But it didn’t 103 on HOTBIRD 13E), HipHop, Funk, multi-feed receptionr ...... 50 happen. Soul, interrupted only occasionally by It would seem that there are still station announcements and without more possibilities just waiting to be all the commercials. Satellite Technology: The Spherical Antenna ................................................... 10 Max Communication Chess Beginner Section: Basic setup of satellite antennas .......................................... 11 Multiswitches 17/6 NT & 17/6 K ........ 54 Feature: More TV Channels or Better Quality? ................................................... 12 New Satellite TV Channels ............................................................................ 29 TELE-satellite Receiver Guide ..................................................................38, 40 TSI Team: Your questions, our answers ...........................................43, 52, 62, 63 Reception Technology: Self-made satellite antenna ......................................... 56 Satellite Reception: C-band With a Ku-band Dish? Could It Be? ......................... 58 ADVERTISERS ANGA CABLE 2006 ...........................................49 FORTECSTAR ....................................................32 PANSAT I ..........................................................28 ARION .............................................................. 7 GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES ..................................25 PANSAT II ........................................................41 AUSTRALASIAN SAT-2006 ...............................43 GOLDEN INTERSTAR ........................................17 PROMAX ...........................................................39 CABSAT ............................................................64 HORIZON .........................................................42 SADOUN ...........................................................61 COMMUNIC ASIA 2006 .....................................67 IAB ...................................................................63 SATELLITE EXPO 2006 .....................................33 DAGS ................................................................15 ITB ...................................................................36 SMARTWI .........................................................37 DGSTATION ......................................................21 JAEGER/WEISS ................................................65 STARSAT ..........................................................31 DOEBIS 1 ......................................................... 8 KATHREIN ........................................................45 TECHNISAT ......................................................19 DOEBIS 2 ......................................................... 9 MAX COMMUNICATION ....................................47 TECHNOMATE ...................................................35 DVB SHOP ........................................................53 MOTECK ...........................................................29 TELE-satellite CITY ..........................................60 EDON ...............................................................11 MTI .................................................................. 5 TOPFIELD ......................................................... 2 EYCOS ..............................................................27 OPENTECH .......................................................68 VANTAGE .......................................................... 4 SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY Mini Satellite Dish The Spherical Antenna Alexander Wiese We have become quite used to the offset antenna. The para- bolic antenna too. While the LNB is centrally mounted in the middle giving the entire system a look of symmetry, the LNB on an offset dish it located outside of the middle. In reality though, the LNB is actually in the center since an offset dish is nothing more than a section of a parabolic dish. But where would you find the LNB in a spherical antenna? Is there even such a thing? and use the opposing half of the Yes, they do exist if even just in sphere as the reflector allowing small quantities. They were cre- multiple LNB’s to be installed. ated by Dr. Abdelhamid Farrag out of Cairo, Egypt. A dentist by Of course, this only works with profession, Dr. Farrag decided to DTH satellites. DXer’s would develop a slightly different kind of really not have any success here. satellite antenna. Dr. Farrag, who This truly wasn’t the goal. It is an originally wanted to be an engi- entirely new concept