dbs satellite reception in iran

[brian]

I saw on fox news(on one of their news crawls)..that Iranian dissidents were iuseing an open cocacola can as a satellite dish Is this possible?

[american_2000]

Uhh??

[raj2001]

Yes they are using open coca cola cans, but they're just making parabolic dishes with them. It's the same as if you buy sheet metal aluminium from home depot and shape it into a concave shape like your DBS dish, and place an LNB at the focal point. Then all you need is a DVB/FTA receiver and a TV set and you're in business. They won't be able to receive DirecTV/DISH but, but rather ArabSat and some European satellites.

Oh by the way, they're not using one can. They're using lots of them joined together. With all that heat in the desert, I'd understand why they're drinking so much soda.

[brian]

Cn they get the fox news channel?

[brian]

Can they get the fox news channel?

[raj2001]

Originally posted by brian
Can they get the fox news channel?

Maybe, they'll probably get Murdoch's other channels too.

[gcutler]

Originally posted by raj2001
Yes they are using open coca cola cans, but they're just making parabolic dishes with them. It's the same as if you buy sheet metal aluminium from home depot and shape it into a concave shape like your DBS dish, and place an LNB at the focal point. Then all you need is a DVB/FTA receiver and a TV set and you're in business. They won't be able to receive DirecTV/DISH but, but rather ArabSat and some European satellites.

Oh by the way, they're not using one can. They're using lots of them joined together. With all that heat in the desert, I'd understand why they're drinking so much soda.

Did they discuss penalties for being caught with a dish. Not sure if the Iranians make it illegal but many governments in the region makes it illegal under the guise of wanting to keep Porn and other immoral stuff outside the country, but they also want to keep as much control over news and the serious media. I bet they Iranian gov't hate Al Jazeera as much as many Americans do, becuase they can't control the subjects and leanings of such subjects being seen by their people???

[american_2000]

So, would a trash can lid work??

[Geronimo]

I would think there would more chance of getting SkyNews than Fox

[Mike123abc]

The most interesting C-Band dish I saw was made out of Newpaper plates welded together. You could read old news on the dish.

[RJS1111111]

Originally posted by Geronimo
I would think there would more chance of getting SkyNews than Fox

True, unless you're active-duty US military deployed there.

:eek:

Then you could watch Fox on AFRTS, and would most likely
see coverage of a war against terror in Iran!

[gcutler]

On 60 Minutes II, they had a report on exiled Iranians in the US putting together a Iraninan interest channel for US consumption. They never said in detail, but the station somehow retransmitted to a satellite in IRAN (they said a satellite uplink tech threw the wrong switch), and because it was more entertaining than "Official Iraninan Programming" it became very popular. And of course it is not a pro-gov't network. The Iranians tried blocking the signal but the company moved it to a new satellite that is very hard to block. So the Iranian Gov't seized dishes and arrested those with the dishes.

And then the Iranian Gov't gave death sentences (like what they did to Salaman Rusdie) to the actors and producers on the Channel. One actor in Los Angeles was beaten, lost an eye, by Pro-Hezbollah agents in the US after the death sentences was announced

Very interesting...

[Jacob S]

I have heard that in Iraq satellite dishes for receiving programming are illegal. I am not sure about Iran though. I would think that if satellite was illegal than the internet would be as well because they would hear news all around the world with the internet and have outside influence on them from other cultures.