drh
01-04-2014, 09:40 PM
I'm not new here, but haven't posted anything until recently.
Been playing around with satellite TV from the early days of analogue firstly with a NEC 2022 system, then a Discus Elipse. Designed some analogue decoders for these simple signals and then went over to digital D2MAC using a converted DMAC BSB receiver and squarial. Lost interest after everything became compact and impossible to play around with so messed about with weather satellite equipment and other home-brew stuff. Now interested a bit again, but so much has changed and it is hard to work on the hardware so I guess it's mainly software folk out there now. Still having fun trying to decrypt the Russian weather satellites as PCs are now fast enough to do the job.
Been playing around with satellite TV from the early days of analogue firstly with a NEC 2022 system, then a Discus Elipse. Designed some analogue decoders for these simple signals and then went over to digital D2MAC using a converted DMAC BSB receiver and squarial. Lost interest after everything became compact and impossible to play around with so messed about with weather satellite equipment and other home-brew stuff. Now interested a bit again, but so much has changed and it is hard to work on the hardware so I guess it's mainly software folk out there now. Still having fun trying to decrypt the Russian weather satellites as PCs are now fast enough to do the job.