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gjensen
April 12th, 2001, 11:51 PM
O.K. I live in California by Mexico somewhere. I am wondering what type of equipment do I need to receive overseas stuff. I am just wondering seriously about this. Is there a special receiver for this? I can not live with a big eyesore 6ft. dish! help a fellow pirate out. Private message me.
PERUCHO
April 23rd, 2001, 07:20 PM
what kind of overseas channels are you looking for ?
only spanish with the para todos oval dish
gjensen
April 30th, 2001, 06:00 PM
I am looking to get some Asian channels, Sattelite stuff from England, and Paris. Also what type of satellite equipment do they use over there? I will also need a hacked card with all of this. That is another thing. I just need the equipment. How would I hack C/KU Band?
jc76
May 22nd, 2001, 02:05 PM
Dishnetwork offers international channels, asian and european 1 french, if you are looking for soccer, they also provide live broadcast of the english premier league.
fastbreak
May 22nd, 2001, 08:30 PM
Originally posted by gjensen
I am looking to get some Asian channels, Sattelite stuff from England, and Paris. Also what type of satellite equipment do they use over there? I will also need a hacked card with all of this. That is another thing. I just need the equipment. How would I hack C/KU Band?

If you are looking to hack satellite services from England and France here in America, you can pretty much forget it.

The birds for European and Asian services are over the eastern hemisphere. For starter, you can't get the signal on this side of the pond. The footprint simply doesn't reach. In California, it's even worse, most of those birds are below the horizon for you, you can't get the signal even with a 50' dish (which in theory, can get you signals from out-of-footprint birds). You can have the best hacking equipment in the universe. No signal => no TV.

That said, there are channels from England and France targeted for the American audience. Both DirecTV and Dish has BBC America. Dish has a French channel called TV5. That's pretty much it.

For Asian channels, there are lots of them on Telstar 5. It's MPEG2 Free to Air. You need an MPEG2 receiver.