[linux-dvb] Re: private channels on Telekom cable

[Usenet-372111@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

mborn@faphida.in-berlin.de(Mathias Born)  17.09.01 20:39

Once upon a time Mathias Born shaped the electrons to say...

>Monday, September 17, 2001, 5:37:00 PM, Rainer Zocholl wrote:

RZ>> Recommended Solutions:

RZ>> First choice
RZ>> Install a dish!

RZ>> Second choice:
RZ>> Move to a house were dishes are allowed or common.

>It's really simple. I have installed a 40cm dish on my balcony, namely
>on the wall side, not the open one. It cannot be seen from outside so
>there is no need for any permission. No need to mount it, it came with
>a stand. It's really much simpler than I thought!

Another trick to make an offset dish completely invisible
is to mount it horizonztal (like a salad dish).
Just drill a small hole in the deepest point for the next strong rain.

Another trick is to paint the dish like the wall:
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(In this case the grey stripes have the orginal dish color,
the red "stones" are simple weather proof wall paint...it works!
In reality this dish is really hard to find. ;-) )


>Of course, in Europe you need an open sight southward.
>(The only problem is to adjust the dish to the satellite - you need a
>program that displays the signal strength.)

>Don't underestimate this digital technology. DVB-s can be received
>100% error free even if the signal power is so small that no analog
>reception would be possible.

Jepp. But this is "100% error free" or "nothing". 
That is what "digital" means too ;-)



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