Analogue Satellite Tv In Bangkok

[Numerounos]

Hi, we have a big old black satellite dish on the roof of the house we have started renting, it looks in ok condition and there is coax running from it down side of building. Does anyone know if you can still get analogue satellite TV in Bangkok? I can see quite a few other properties with same dish but most have the new small red True digital dishes. I guess i'd need a analogue receiver box but have no idea where I could get one? Any advice on this much appreciated!

[barryw52]

www.jsat.tv English

www.eldsat.com English

bkkcabletv.com

www.9sat.com

www.forwardsat.com/

www.sats.co.th

http://www.mastersatcom.com/

No idea who god or bad I just did some research using Google

The equipment is really low cost so really depends what you want to watch and how much tech stuff you want to install.

As I could not put a dish up in my condo I only had a choice of True Vision (expensive) 1000 -2000BHT to set up and 1500BHT /month

or STV 300BHT

Because of Condo restrictions

STV BranchPhranakorn T.02-6756055 No web site

1.Analog 56channel

Pay permonth 350 THB.

PromotionFree setup / free 1 month

2.Digital120 channel

-Rent the Box(first time pay 1,500 THB)

Deposit forbox 1,000 THB.

Openchannel 500 THB.

[Pib]

Satellite TV is digital, not analog. Maybe you are thinking regular analog and digital TV signals which use terrestrial/standard outside TV antenna (the lightning attractor) when saying analog TV.

Anyway, with that C-band dish and assuming it still has the C-band LNB installed on it and aimed at a satellite like Thaicom5, which is the satellite most Thais point their C Band or KU band dishes at (TrueVisions transmits onThaicom 5 on KU band), just pickup most any C/KU band set-top box (most run around 450 to 700 baht) and you'll be able to pickup almost 200 channels on C-band with it aimed at Thaicom5...not much in English channels...mostly Thai, Southeast, India, Pakistan, etc., channels to include the main Thai channels of Channel 3, 5, 7, etc.. If the dish and LNB are OK and aimed properly the picture should be clear as a bell in rain or shine....I know mine is here in western Bangkok with my 5.5 ft C-band dish. You can buy a C-band set-top box at most anyplace advertising that it sells/installed satellite TV systems. I buy stuff at 9Sats...great prices...many installers buy their equipment there and then resell it at a higher price....anybody can buy at 9Sats...their web site of www.9sat.com was mentioned in above post and they are roughly in the middle of Bangkok

[Numerounos]

Thanks for the info I think it must be a C-band dish, LNB and dish look ok although the LNB looks slightly different to the others I can see from my rooftop. Also the dish is in a fixed position pointing in a different direction to the other C-band dishes. This thing is a beast of a dish must be at least 6ft.

[Pib]

Thanks for the info I think it must be a C-band dish, LNB and dish look ok although the LNB looks slightly different to the others I can see from my rooftop. Also the dish is in a fixed position pointing in a different direction to the other C-band dishes. This thing is a beast of a dish must be at least 6ft.

Quite a few satellites it could be aimed/pointed at. If the C-band dish looks like it pointed up at about a 60 degree angle and to the Southwest it's probably pointed at the Thaicom5 satellite. As mentioned, most Thais use Thaicom5. You can still buy a C/KU-band box, hook it to the dish cable, let the box do an automatic scan, and see what satellites/channels it pulls up. New boxes are usually setup to tune in all the common satellites & channels used in Thailand. Of course that won't tell you what satellite the dish is exactly aimed at, but it will tell you that it's pointed close enough to pickup satellites XYZ. If it picks up Thai channels 3, 5, & 7 and you get really strong signal indications on the set-top boxes signal strength display meter for these channels, then it's probably pointed at Thaicom5....plus the channel selection menu will tell you somewhere which satellite a particular channel is being received on.

Personally, I would want to know which satellite it is pointed at and ensure it is still accurately aimed......just being a few degrees off in either the vertical or horizontal planes can make a big difference in the signal strength/signal quality of the lower power channels....you may want to have the dish's alignment checked/optimized. Good luck.