So how did you get into sats??

I also got fed up of going every other day to update my matrix cam at the shop. So bought a cas and started reading and reading....now I am on to buying a dreambox....

As for me .. I started since looooooooooooooooong time ago in the "light current" systems and mainely in the audio sections + some other systems like fire alarms and CCTV and similar equipments ..

when I changed my personal analog decoder with the digital one .. I bought at first the nokia 9200 with irdeto module bc I had showtime arabia .. then I changed it to humax 5400 .. which I patched later.

And same as Rocknroll .. I had enough from the people who updated the cards for me .. I had at that time .. a seca one for all the canal+ and a viaccess one for hotbird as well as an irdeto one for nova and showtime ..

Now I have all the tools for repairing and updating different decoders and all of that because of the sites I learned from and the help of the other ..

I have 2 humax - a nokia 9800 - a Qmax without card reader - an Xcam - and some leftover ... Viaccess cam Seca cams and irdeto free cams

but I'm sticked to my original Humy which I loooooooove ...

My mate of 1000 adventure is humax5400 more and more times patched,i don't know a motive of long life of this old decoder but the first and only love is him ,and i have put inside of all....

wafer( many and many created from myself with acid and photo incision case),season,xcam,dragon cam,blocker,many card,the file i have always updated myself my cards (wafer the first),and update also for my friends (free ),programmer,cas2,phonix-smartmouse usb,multipippo and other....

i love this hobby :appl

I've started in '88 with analog reciver, and a damn small dish
Then came D2MAC, Humax - a whole lot of CAM-s + cards + programmers.
Now I am on Dream 7020 (temporarily not hooked to net)

Started out with a Nokia (I belive it was 9003) D2MAC. Made some 16c84 cards to learn assembler and pic-programming. Later expanded the cards to pic + ext.eeprom. Finally wafers shoved up, and everything got a little easyer. I've used a couple of fun cards too, but never made my own programming on them.Now i only use pic's for special purpose application (industrial processing).
The old Nokia did a great job for many years, but finally I had to give in for digital. So it was tossed and replaced by a Dreambox 7020 and some new lnb's (old lnb's was singleband). Still got the old Nokia dish.
Ooh. Completely forgot my Digiality reciever. Got it 'bout 3 weeks before I bought the dream. It didn't do the job. And bought a strong after the dream. Useless too.

I started

Hi m8s

I started in the days of d2mac BSB with the square dish only to find they sold out to s*y so lost money on that receiver to be given a crap amstrad and videocrypt decoder in return after which i bought myself a number of pace units mss100 mss500 mss1000 plus had microchip convert done to old bsb mac decoder to get tv1000 etc but then got the churchill mac decoder.
My first digital was a nokia dbox with the dvb2000 software then i got the nokia 9600 and a hundai 800ci and my fav hummy 5400 to end up with the dream 7000 plus my s*y+ receiver
I have seen all the changes in this hobby and all the doom & gloom post whenever a broadcaster is lost but what go's around comes around i say, look at premier for instants found - lost - found again.
Thats the fun I get from it that small crack that allows us access to an encrypted channel for however long it maybe.
Where do i go from here ? well i wont be getting s*y hd until more channels are available and they give the the stb's away with cornflake packets, have been done by them so many times but no more !! i am looking at the new hummy hd receivers coming into use and top of my list is a new plasma/lcd tv
The only problem with our hobby is you need deep pockets with all the new stuff around and its not getting cheaper, just look at the cost of dreamboxes now because they are so popular.

regards
satmanbasil

some of the receivers - amstrad - churchill what a trip down memory lane that was, still have them all in the loft just in case u never know ??? lol

i started with an analogue system it was a pace if i well recall at the time i just moved in england and i could watch rai1 and 2 with it. it was great cause whan my mum came and visit me she could watch a bit of tv.
then i moved to a nokia 9200 then i was the first to have an original telepiu card so i could watch the love of my life NAPOLI FC on sunday as i live in a big italian comunity i let you immagine the ppl i had round my house on sunday but we loved it as my mum cooking for every one we used call my house THE CHURCH has for sunday we all meet there
then i bought my first hummy but like everyone else here i got hooked by this ppl charging a fortune just to upgrade a card that will last sometime couple weeks so i got to do myself and all my mates got hummy so i got to do thems too and i still got 5 to repair in my living room.
now im in to db GOD i had some sleepless night with it as some ppl around here knows.
but like it happen in great forum like this it is so easy when you meet friends ready to help and share same interess.