External tuner for computer:  Just released, Great for Laptops Mini Size Gorgeous Appearance USB 2.0 High Speed Transmission Watch & Record Satellite TV & Radio Multi-Media Files Support Third Party Software Support IP Data Transmission Operation System Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Vista Comes with Blaze HDTV Player Registered Software US$49.95 value at no extra charge We have a limited supply. New just in. http://www.matchboxpro.com  take a look http://www.matchboxpro.com/blaze.html for screen shots

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Al Jazeera launches English language service on Intelsat Americas 5 aka Telstar 5. Prorogrammed systems $189,  or use the sale system listed above and program your own receiver.  http://www.electronicretailer.com for the story.  Present system owners rescan; 11999 H 20000.

Just in; 4 port LNBF, We now stock an LNBF that will support 4 receivers independently at a reasonable price, $32.95 .  This is a universal extended band lnbf,  

Computer DVB Free to Air Special,   External DVB World receiver with remote control (scroll down) rated best  $109  only a few left  this week only.  Click on "Products we offer for sale above or scroll down for DVB world  for further information.

White Springs TV shows movies  many from 60' -80's  Intelsat Americas 7 = T7  129 deg W. www.whitesprings.tv   Old movies free!!!!!

Russia Today on Intelsat Americas 5 aka Telsar 5,aka Galaxy 25 97w  All English language station from the Russian news agency.  So far it is in the clear     11966 H 22000  Programming is very well done, news, views of Russia, sports and much more.  Take a look and rescan if  necessary. 

Dish 1000 antenna kit.  $95 plus shipping. This is for antenna and lnbf.  Great for HDTV upgrades.  119/110/129 We are offering this at the request of customers that tell us that dealers are demanding that expensive service calls or 12 month commitments .  This antenna is to be used with subscribed Dish Network receivers only

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Now available with standard Ku for use with 4DTV as well as Universal Ku.  Add Ku to your big dish and use your 4dtv or other traditional receiver. BSC-621 = C-Band and Standard Ku (10750) use with 4DTV and traditional receiver.  Ku=  11.7 to 12.2  Plus C Band BSC-621-2  = C-Band and Universal Ku  see specs to the left   This is the one you have been waiting for!  Goes on Big Dish, typically 5 to 10 foot.  You must use one of our MPEG  receivers as it requires DiSEqC switching and and the Ku lnbf is Universal.  Price is $69.  Use a V-Box to move your big dish.

Dave Conlin on the library roof at St. Leo University examining a satellite system that we just installed.  System included a SG2100 Horizon to Horizon dish mount with a 0.76 meter dish feeding a Trimax T-100 receiver.  The system is used to air the Pope addressing World Youth, and all kinds of interesting content to the university cable system.  Note; St. Francis is just off camera supervising <g>.  Other recent installations have included systems to receive LDS semi annual meetings,  and Pentecostal sponsored television.

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  BBC World Television News is on Galaxy 13 at 127 degrees W.    C-Band. You will need a 6 + foot dish or larger.  3800 V 27690.  If you have C-Band take a look.  This feed may not last for long, probably not worth adding C-Band to receive   

 Programmed for Telstar Intelsat Americas 5; now using the Trimax or new Traxis  2550, great for T5, we can preprogram it for you  - System $169 with  dish and lnbf!

,  Traxis 5500 CI  $99

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BVN from the Netherlands is leaving Dish Network.  They have announced that they will be offered in FTA mode on America's Intelsat 5  (T5).  They are now on T5=  IA5. Our systems, including the Traxis 2500,  receive this channel.  We can program your receiver to receive this channel.  The great thing is that our receivers, unlike some others, come preprogrammed for approximately 100 ++ channels and our receivers due to their sensitive tuner only require a 0.76 meter (32 inch dish!  Iranian, it is there too!

Special, New Item, flatwire  about 8 inches long with connector on each end, allows running of coax under a door or window.  $4.99

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Tech Tip;   To check a remote control use a digital camera or camera phone.  A good ir signal will appear as a white flash!

RTPi  special,  we will preprogram our receivers to receive RTPi Portugal on their new frequency either C-Band  Intelsat 805 or Ku  AMC 4. We know that many of the old Zinwell and StarPro receivers that just plain won't program any more, it is now time to upgrade.  Use BEC 2000+ or Satwork 3688 receiver.

Quantities on some items are very limited, specials good end of sale date or until we run out.

NEWS;  RTPi (Portuguese) TV has moved.  We have found them on Intelsat 805  one bird east of PAS 9  at 4080 Vertical  sr 4339 . Try Audio 2 from the remote control for a radio feed.  /   RTP is also on  AMC - 4  Ku  at 12169 H sr 3003.  The AMC signal is weak and my be there for testing.  The numbers may change as they crank it up.  We will be able to supply dishes and lnbs for those of you that do not have a Ku dish.  AMC 4 is co-located with DirecTV.  at 101 Degrees W.L.   The AMC 4 feed is presently experiencing major problems.  Note; Zinwell users try going to the password screen and enter 159357 Recall.  Recall is a button on the remote control.  Good luck.

Also on AMC4 ; Transponder: 6 Ku Band, Frequency: 11.807 Ghz, Symbol Rate: 2.713 , Polarization: Horizontal
YESTERDAY USA = Channel 1 Left
NEW ABILITIES TV audio only = Channel 1 Right
LIBERTY BROADCASTING = Channel 2 Left
AMERICAN JUKE BOX CLASSICS = Channel 2 Right
ESCAPE RADIO = Channels 3 Left & 3 Right
KCAA Radio = Channel 4 Left
Brother R. G. Stair = Channel 4 Right,  Today's quote from Sister Stair, "It's windy in outer space, I know I have been there"   

It is amazing what you will hear on satellite radio 

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE ON DISHES;  Our service department was just called to repair an installation of a dish for a "Church Broadcast Network"  Our Tech installed the dish, a .9 meter dish and found that he could only get one group of stations.  He called the engineer at the broadcaster.  He was told that the dishes were warped and that he had to sight across the dish, determine where it was bent and straighten it.  On close examination he determined that the dish was twisted.  He disassembled the dish and gave it a gentle twist. The dish bent to far, so with a soft twist he bent it back, reinstalled it and it worked well enough to get all of the channels the customer expected.   It was not as good as our smaller 0.75 meter Hotdish but it worked.  What was wrong??? The metal that the dish was made of was very soft, way too soft.  This is true of many of the dishes from the orient and some made here.  Cheap dishes often do not have good metal  ALL OF OUR DISHES USE HARDENED STEEL, THEY WILL SPRING BACK AND HOLD THEIR SHAPE.  Our dishes are made in Europe and Iowa where they use good steel! 

 In this week,  T5 and DirecTV, or whatever from one fixed dish $23.99, made to work with Hotdish, may require drilling hole for Winegard and others.  Initial test results,  The picture on the left shows the left LNBF on Telstar 5  and the one on the right on EchoStar at 110 degrees W., a spread of 13 orbital degrees which is about the maximum spread.  14 Degrees may be possible.  The photo to the right shows Telstar 5 and DirecTV at 101, a spread of 4 orbital degrees  which is about  minimum.  Note polarity, the way the feed is turned is not critical as DTV and Dish use circular polarity. Feed mounts are adjustable and we used some hose to shim the feed as DirecTV feeds vary in neck size.   We were not able to fine tune the feed due to weather and time. Note:  this product has changed slightly, picture on the right is latest.  LNBF's not included.

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Using one of our 0.76 meter dishes to receive International Programming from Dish Network!   South Asians take note!  Dish Network offers a number of International Channels off a satellite at 121 degrees west.  The problem is that it is virtually impossible to get the "Super Dish" antenna needed for this service unless you live in an area where local channels require the "Super Dish".  I am told that it will be a long time before these dishes will become available, but who knows for sure.  The good news it that you can use one of our 0.76 meter dishes and lnbf's to receive the programming.  We are Dish dealers and our receiver confirms this.  You must BUY the programming from Dish Network, we NEVER steal programming.  Hooking up the dish can be complicated.  Your receiver must be set to Legacy NOT Dish Pro mode.  You can use a Dish 500 antenna with legacy twin feed and a SW 21 switch.  Do it wrong and you will burn up some equipment.  You can also use the receiver with our dish alone if you do not want to watch core Dish programming.  We have all the parts you would need like legacy twin feeds, sw 21 switches plus the 0.76 meter HOT DISH and Electronics.  If you live in the Cincinnati area we can also supply Dish Network receivers.   We have seen the following programming on this bird; Gemini, Surya, Kairali, Totana Music, Channel One  where the host argues and yells at callers, Tepish 1 and 2, Yo Yo, Jet, TTY, ETTV NEWS, ETDRA,  and the list goes on.  Important, Dish does not activate some programming like Gemini in most Zip Codes,  check with Dish before ordering equipment!  This piece is posted in response to the telephone calls I have received from people wishing to purchase a dish.  If anyone wishes to purchase a dish and lnb for this purpose, they are on their own and due to shipping constraints dishes are NOT returnable.  Be sure that you can get the system authorized before ordering!

New Commercial Rack Mount receiver with balanced audio and ACI out, not $4000 but $449.  TV Stations take note!  This is a no brainer for head end operations!

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Business opportunity; For businesses that need a way to fight patrons using fake id or stolen credit cards, take a look at Video Eyewitness.  Cops and judges like pictures. http://www.videoeyewitness.com

16' Lowe Line  No dents $299 Needs cleaned, excellent 1970 Jeep Jeepster Commando $6900,  details on surplus page

Our new Hot Dish will do either DirecTV or DVD Free to air receivers ..75 meter $59, Winegard $69 plus shipping

NEW!  Puts all of your VHF and many cable channels on UHF.  Ch 3 becomes Ch 37,  Ch 4 becomes Ch 38.  This allows user with way 4 satellite receivers to combine signals and send them out on home cable system with combiners and /or reverse splitters. $24

A system from Taylor Enterprises receiving Doc Scott in Arizona

GO TO OUR PRODUCTS PAGE, FAST READING, BETTER PRICES	We have new in the box antennas. $69  details	4'  Andersen Tru Spec patio mount prime focus dishes for C and / or  Ku band reception.  $89, picked up at our  "Cincinnati".  Only 1 left.  brand new and bulk packed.  Very limited quantity.   We also have some Wilson 5" dishes used for $25 Go to surplus page
	Another list of MPEG2  free channels available to US viewers: List is incoplete, some channels scramble from time to time, no guarantees http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/United-States.shtml note: you are looking for channels that are DVB.  Red  is  C Band, Green is Ku band. Check Lyngsat map to make sure you can receive the bird. some listings can not be seen in the USA.  These are channels originating in the US and do NOT include channels coming in from abroad, which is most of them.

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Some of the programming that has been found by our receiver

What is MPEG2 Free to Air

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Make any receiver into a system by adding a Winegard or other dish for $69

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Adding a Free To Air Receiver to you Big Dish system

.Note: Existing Receiver powers lnb and is attached to port on High Frequency Splitter with the solid line.

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  Antennas and Accessories
    Hot Dish Ku Antenna,  0.75 meter $69 new steel very high efficiency commercial-- The vertical channels work well on T5 unlike other dishes this size  Commercial Dish great for downlinks       Special Dish and LNBF  $69 with purchase of receiver.
       Just in,, we have RCA installation kits.  These were made for larger DBS systems and work fine with our DBS receivers.   Kits include coax, lag bolts, concrete of hollow wall anchors, compass, ground clamp, wire ties, and more.  $20 with purchase of receiver,  $29 without.

Horizon to Horizon drive for dishes up to 1.2 meter.          We  recommend that this dish be installed by someone that knows how to track a dish for multiple satellites.    ONLY $89  Picture below shows mount connected to the bracket that comes with Hotdish (bolt goes through bracket)
 

How to install the SG 2100 H to h drive 

Note;  if you can not get enough elevation from the dish, especially for customers in Central America, and you are using a Hot Dish, you can turn the butterfly bracket upside down.  Do NOT reverse the sleeve that attaches to the motor.  We have also found that if you put a dial level on the arm that holds the lnbf and add approximately  13 degrees, that will give you an indication of the look angle of the dish.
A great site.  What you can see if you were looking back at earth from a specific satellite.  Look at AMC9 and you will see that it is looks down on the mid west.  Look at Hotbird 1 and you will see that even if it had a westward looking transmission antenna, the USA is below the horizon and could not receive this bird.  No you can not see futball from most European satellites.  You may also want to look at Google maps and zoom in and see your home.

 

Specifications:
Input Voltage	110VAC, 60Hz 13/18VDC (via Coax Cable)
Output Voltage	13/18VDC 36VDC
Output Power	60 W
Maximum Current	3 Amp
Power Consumption	5W (Standby) 90W (Maximum)
Position Memories	28
Protocol	DiSEqC 1.2
Operating Temperature	5ºC to 40ºC (41ºF to 104ºF)
Storage Temperature	-20ºC to 60ºC (-40ºF to 140ºF)
Dimensions (WxHxD)	1.6Kg (Net), 1.8Kg (Gross)

Does not have remote control and does not work with old style DiSEqC 1.0 receivers like the V-Box II  

Winegard .76  = 30 inch antenna,   our model holds LNBF by the throat  $69 (no LNBF)  Made in Iowa. Winegard dish holds LNBF with clamp around neck. 

excellent quality -  see dish aiming tips below

Important; ALL of our Coship and BEC receivers have excellent tuners and do NOT require a 0.9 meter dish to work!!  Beware of poor performing receivers that lack sensitivity!

Assembly instructions for 2004 HotdishHotdish 2004   0.76 meter (discontinued)

Dish to right is a 0.75 meter Hotdish attached to a H to H drive.   Horizon to Horizon drive is $89. Installation instructions Do not use with  Diseqc coax switch, use 0/12 volt switch if needed. If you put an angle indicator on the lnbf arm, add about 13 degrees to get the elevation.

The Antenna on the right is our latest dish and is available in limited quantity.  It is all steel, 0.76 meter  in size, and is Made in U.S.A.   It sells for  $69 with an LNB and purchase of satellite receiver.  It will work with our SG-2100 Hoirizon to Horizon drive which allows the user to move the dish and view all of the Ku band satellites in the arc. You must use a dishmover compatible receiver like a BEC or Coship  2300.

DISH AIMING TIPS     Aiming a dish for digital signals like our systems receive can be challenging.  Here are some tips to make the job easier.  Remember this!  The hottest signal may not be the best digital signal.  Add to this the fact that there are satellites on both sides of Telstar 5 make tuning a small dish more difficult.  It may be easiest to take a television to the antenna, and use the tuning bars from the receiver.  On the BEC choose a channel that is always on,  the Maharshi Open university is a good one.  After going to that channel,  see bottom of screen,  press menu, select, scroll to installation, select transponder setup.    When the bars at the bottom of the screen turn yellow, the dish is on the right satellite.  Maximize the bars. 

Various styles   

Important, when replacing an old lnb with a new digital LNB, you may need to replace the f connector on the coax as new digital lnbs may not work if the connector end of wire has deteriorated. 

Important ku lnbf notice;   We are now shipping new Universal wide band lnbfs with many of our receivers.  If your lnbf says LO 9.75 & 10600 GHZ, this is a new  style lnb.  If you receive it with a receiver  proper settings should be programmed, but if you are adding it to an existing receiver or a receiver that has been restored to factory default settings, you must  reset the receiver for a universal lnbf.  This can be done by going to your installation menu on the BEC, choose Dish Setup, scroll down to the  lnb your program has chosen, highlight and open, highlight lnb type and choose Universal lnb. Freq 1 should be 09750 and Freq 2 should be 10600.  Previous settings were 5150 and 10750.  Close out and save.  Check transponder setup to be sure that you are using the universal setup for the  bouquet.  On our preprogrammed receivers, lnb 2 is ku.  

Just In, New LNBf has 2 ports, allows 2 receivers to be used with one dish Single and dual port shown

Special,  .7 m. Dish with LNBf for $69 with purchase of receiver, mention this offer when ordering

 Satfinder meter for setting up  satellite dishes including Dish/DTV 

     DISEqC switch for use with  BEC and Coship receivers,   Go to How to hook up switches, may vary from picture  (left below)  Warning!  when installing DiSEqC switches be sure to power down the receiver, unplug it! Power surges can dill the switches.

Special Deal,  0 /12 volt switches    /12v switch,  2 HF1pp splitters, and wire made into a kit, ask  with receiver purchase.

Note,  DiSEqC, 12volt, and 22k switches can be hooked up together allowing reception from up to 16 different antennas or lnbfs with some receivers!!!!!!
    

Ku LNBs typically .6 db   $49 (use with center focus feed) This LNB attaches to a feedhorn.
     Hi freq. 1 port passing splitters used for slaving the above receivers to  an existing  satellite receiver  

A few big dishes available;
7.5' and 10' dishes must be picked up at our Cincinnati area warehouse
 

All prices are FOB Cincinnati or Atlanta warehouse.
All returns will be charged a 20 % restocking fee and shipping is non refundable.
We ship UPS, USPS, and  Fedex. Prices subject to change .
Items depend on availability.

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For Ordering or Help I can be contacted at <tomt@Iglou.com> or 859/356-9666

Please note, I receive dozens of contacts a day so if you don't hear back from me, email or call me again.
 Who is Taylor Enterprises;  Taylor Enterprises is headed by Tom Taylor who has been in the satellite business since 1985.  Tom Taylor has been an editor or publisher for major satellite publications since the early 1990s.  Tom wrote some 200 articles including the "Other side of the Arc"  columns covering programming on little known birds deep over the Atlantic.    Facilities; Taylor Enterprises maintains an antenna farm on top of a big Kentucky hill just south of Cincinnati, Ohio.  This farm  has about a dozen antennas ranging from fixed 18"  to steerable 12' antennas allowing  tracking of satellites from the Russian birds deep over the Atlantic to the satellites at the west end of the U.S. domestic arc.  This is why Tom can preprogram receivers with programming that has been locked onto and verified.    These facilities make Taylor Enterprises uniquely qualified to meet the hardware needs of everyone from the most advanced hobbyist to the most discriminating commercial down linker.    

We at Taylor Enterprises strive to provide the satellite dealer, the foreign language viewer, and the serious hobbyist with satellite items that he or she will NOT find at their local Consumer Electronics Store.   For details of programming consult the  Lyngsat web site and find MPEG2 FTA (free to air, non scrambled) programming. http://www.lyngsat.com.

A great site.  What you can see if you were looking back at earth from a specific satellite.  Look at AMC9 and you will see that it is looks down on the mid west.  Look at Hotbird 1 and you will see that even if it had a westward looking transmission antenna, the USA is below the horizon and could not receive this bird.  No you can not see futball from most European satellites.  You may also want to look at http://www.google.com/maps  zoom in and see your home.

The following is several years old but still has  value;

Check our new satellite chart
 

WHAT MPEG2-FTA IS ALL ABOUT ?  KEEP ON READING?

            MPEG-2 FREE TO AIR;   A BRIEF PRIMER
                              By Tom Taylor <tomt@Iglou.com>  http://www.mpeg2fta.com

       Coship, Satworks, BEC, and the list goes on and on!
Where did all of these receivers come from?  While the U.S. and Canadian Cable industry distributes their programming largely via products made by General Instruments, which they own part of, the rest of the world chose the MPEG-2 format.  Granted, even though, the GI Digicipher II has some MPEG-2 attributes, it nevertheless remains a totally proprietary platform.  Who has chosen MPEG-2 as a platform? Dish Network, Scientific Atlanta, and the rest of the world.  Even DirecTV is an early version of MPEG-2.   MPEG-2 is a digital platform that allows several digital broadcasts to be compressed onto one frequency or channel.  Without MPEG-2, Digicipher, or other compression  platform, it would not be possible to have direct broadcast television services like DirecTV or Dish Network.

      What does MPEG2-FTA mean? MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group.  Is is a method for compressing data. FTA stands for "Free to Air"- meaning that the signal is not encrypted with a conditional access module.  Smart Cards are generally used for this purpose.

       MPEG-2 is not a encryption method although ecryption can be added. Dish Network uses the Nagra system, DirecTV uses a News Data system and cable primarily uses the Digicipher or Videocipher system. Transponder time has become so expensive that with the exception of the preachers, the porno channels, and the home shopping networks, it doesn't make sense to place only one channel on one frequency.  With HBO, and Discovery Networks planning 25 channels each, it would take over two C-Band birds to air their material the old fashioned way.
 

  WHAT CAN BE SEEN ON MPEG2-FTA?

         FTA or "Free To Air" simply means that the signal is not encrypted.  Most cable programming is encrypted.  Occasionally programmers may turn the scrambler machine off and you can see a channel or two with an MPEG-2 receiver.  The barker channel can occasionally be seen on Dish Network.  You will never see Time Warner cable programming, i.e. CNN, HBO in fta mode in the U.S..  CNN, and other international news channels, are available to viewers around the world in free to air mode, but not to the U.S..

        In the U.S. there are a number of channels that are available via MPEG-2 FTA receivers that have indicated that they plan to remain in the clear or are believed to intending to stay clear.  These include Saudi TV, Abu Dhabi, Thai TV,Asian TV, Kuwait TV, Syria TV, Taiwan, Iran, and as we go to press, Bloomberg TV all on Telstar 5, ku, which can be received on a 30 inch dish. The list changes now and then but these and more can be seen today.

       On Anik E2 look for CTV and CBC.  CBC-East is already testing on Nimiq at freq 12730, with a symbol rate of 20000 I am told. GE-1 is the home of a bouquet of channel from Paxton Communication's PAX TV.  PanAmSat 5 at 58 degrees west is home to the Latin American Weather Channel, RTP, EWTN, WACC-Am Miami, CCTV China, NHK, Deutche Wella, another major English language news service from Europe which I won't mention by name for fear of seeing it scrambled,,,, shhhhh, an Arab bouquet, and Caracol from Colombia.  MPEG2 FTA feeds are numerous and more and more are being added every day.  The economics of compression, allowing more than one service on each frequency dictate that we will see more.  Every time another satellite fails, and they are failing, we see the prices of transponder time go up.  A couple of thousand dollars an hour for a better bird are not unusual for part time use.

                       WHERE DO YOU FIND LISTINGS OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE

     The answer is simple, you find it on the Internet.  There are two sites that are very good. Every day Christian Lyngemark spends a few hours updating loading information from every satellite in the world from his office in Sweden. His site is supported by advertisers.  He relies on information from the programmers and satellite owners plus an army of volunteer spotters located around the world.  His lists aren't always up to date or totally accurate, especially since many of the services go to great lengths to hide their feeds, but he is a very good detective.  Christian's site is <http://www.lyngsat.com> and he lists everything from HBO to Solo Tango.  A competing site  is <http://www.satcodx.com> and has similar lists.

               WHAT IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE INTERNET?

     Today, unless you live in an area with no Internet phone access, there is no excuse for not being on the Internet.  DirecPC is available through DirecTV.  Unfortunately most DirectTV dealers don't sell DirecTV or want to fool with the special larger dish or special selling arrangements.   Got 4DTV?  By now you should have received messages inviting you purchase a DirecPC computer card that works with your 4DTV, and the hardware price is right.

     Dish Network has just introduced their new Dish Player 7100 and it has WebTV Internet built in.  It is really a slick machine.  I have one playing on a big screen TV across the room from me and I can read the Internet without my glasses.  I am sitting here with lyngsat.com listing on the screen as I write this article.  The system is a combination Dish Network receiver with all of the Dish Network programming, plus Web TV.  The user only has to hook the system up to a standard 18 inch dish and a phone line.  This machine has features that Rube Goldberg wouldn't have thought of.  Its price is only $199 for the system and that barely pays for the 8.6 gig Seagate hard drive that is in it .  If you wish to purchase a Dish Player and are not a Dish Network dealer you can call me.  I sell both Dish Players as well as MPEG-2 FTA receivers and can be reached at (606) 356-9666.

              THE SECRETS OF PROGRAMMING AN MPEG-2 FTA RECEIVER

     Most receivers come programmed with just a few channels or a couple of satellites.  Since most receivers are made for the Asian markets it is not unusual to see satellites such as AsiaSat programmed into memory.  Fortunately, all receivers come with the ability to delete programming.  Update, most receivers are preprogrammed for USA satellites although no list is really up to date There is no Windows for MPEG,,,  yet. .  With our MPEG2-FTA receivers, programming is done via the remote control.  Fortunately, one the information is entered, the information is stored into the receivers memory. ( we now have blind search receivers that automatically find what is on the bird.

     All MPEG-2 FTA receivers require information to be loaded into memory. All that the receivers require be placed into memory in order to program a channel are the L-Band tuning frequency, which must be calculated, the Forward Error Correction, The PID rate, and the Symbol Rate. It has only been a couple of years since most of this information had to be calculated and entered. Today the receiver manufacturers have programming  a lot easier.

      Most modern receivers require only two items be entered, the frequency, and the symbol rate. I am going to program a bouquet on T5-ku to illustrate how most MPEG-2 FTA receivers work.
I have gone to <http://www.lyngsat.com> on the Internet.  There I clicked on the map of the U.S. and then selected Telstar 5.  I have scrolled to the next to the last entry which is a group, we call them a bouquet, of channels that can be programmed as one.  This group includes channels from Abu Dhabi, SaudiTV, Kuwait, Syria, Thai and Taiwan plus some radio stations.  All of these channels are compressed onto one transponder. I know that I can receive this bouquet because column five indicates that the signal is MPEG-2 and no scrambling system is noted.  The entry above is NTSC which is the standard analog U.S. TV system.   Viaccess and IRDETO listed above  are scrambling methods. PowerVu is a Scientific Atlanta system and can sometimes be received with MPEG-2 FTA receivers.  At the bottom of the page we see that all MPEG non scrambled listings are highlighted in a light yellow color.  The last column is also of use.  The listings on this page say beam which doesn't tell us much but if you see " East Hemi", you know the signal is pointed at Europe and, sorry soccer fans, I don't care how big an antenna you have you can't see it from that Sports Club in New Jersey!

     Typically most receivers start with the downlink frequency.  Looking at the Lyngsat chart we see that is 12152 Mhz and this frequency is programmed into the first line in our example.  This is simply the downlink frequency or transponder 24.  The next item that is typically required to be entered is the LNB L.O. freq.  This is the local oscillator frequency of the LNB, which is located out at the antenna, that allows the received signal to be converted into a usable signal within the receiver. Domestic U.S. C-Band L.O. frequency is 5150 and Ku band is 10750. In our case T5 is ku so 10750 is entered.  The receiver uses these two frequencies to calculate the L-band frequency that all receivers use to tune the channel.  The next figure entered is the Symbol Rate.  This is the rate the size of the digital package transmission, akin to a modem bit rate.   This figure can be anywhere from less than 5000 to over 30,000.  This figure is entered but be sure that you get the numbers in the right place.  You may have to begin the entry with a 0 to make it work right, i.e. 6000 may have to be entered as 06000.  In the case of our T5 example we can see from the forth column that the SR is 20000.  The 3/4 is the FEC and is automatically calculated by most receivers. It is always easiest to manually enter the symbol rate manually but if the number is not known, receivers such as the KBS-2001,see article, and some Nokias will attempt to find it for you. To see how a specific receiver is programmed, the Zinwell, take a look at my web page at <http://mpeg2fta.webjump.com>.

     The PID rate, package identifier, and the FEC, Forward Error Correction, which corrects bit errors, are automatically calculated by most receivers.  Some receivers also allow for manual PID entry allowing some signals with incomplete data stream information to be watched.

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       For further information on this subject I highly recommend Rod Hewitt's " DVB North American MPEG-2 Information publication which can be found on the Internet at <http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg>.

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