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Article #1009Re: Hacking the UEC 660 Foxtel Satellite Decoder
From: Mark Dawson
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:00
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I have already done this but left signal 1 enabled. To select the additional channels I press the "TV" button on the remote and a box appears where I select "Public Bouquet". Does anyone know if it is possible to receive signals from Optus B3s neighbouring satellites Superbird A2 & JCSat2? Mark Jason Jordan <guru@swami.pcguru.com.au> wrote in message news:39C0CD03.149D7437@swami.pcguru.com.au... > Howdy Folks, > > Well a little bit of playing and I've now got 5 new free-to-air > satellite channels on my UEC 660 Foxtel Satellite Decoding Unit. > > Many thanks to www.satcodx5.com for the frequency list. > > I haven't seen these details anywhere else. I'm not aware of the > legalities of doing what I have discovered, so this is for > educational interest only. This may break the law. This may > void your warranty. This may render your decoder unusable. This > may cause your lover to leave you. This may set your house on > fire. You have been warned. > > The 5 new channels I've managed to add are: > > MOU-TV Maharishi Open University Asia > ThaiTV5 Thailand TV Channel 5 > MEDIASAT Screen shows test pattern with "MEDIASAT-SYD" > TRT-INT Turkish Television? > SPARE-CH8 Screen shows same as MEDIASAT > > MEDIASAT has an english speaker announcing that it is "the > primary audio channel for MEDIASAT". The other channels are > non-English. > > Whilst it may seen pointless, I had fun doing this. > > It seems Foxtel have the unit rigged so you can't easily add the > new channels, but I will describe the process I used below so > that I now have 37 Channels available. > > I will prevent the innocent from destroying their decoders by not > telling what the installer code is. If you don't know you can > easily find it. If you do know it... you should know better. > > Hit your MENU button > goto ADVANCED OPTIONS > goto CHANGE DISH INSTALLATION > ENTER INSTALLER CODE > goto SIGNAL SETUP > goto SIGNAL SETUP 1 (HOME) and change the ENABLED option to > DISABLED > goto SIGNAL SETUP 2 and change the DISABLED option to ENABLED > change the frequency to 12438 > change the symbol rate to 29473 > ensure the polarity is HORIZONTAL > goto SIGNAL SETUP 3 and change the DISABLED option to ENABLED > change the frequency to 12336 > change the symbol rate to 30000 > ensure the polarity is VERTICAL > exit back to CHANGE DISH INSTALLATION > TUNE & RESCAN > > The unit will now rescan... you'll see a message about waiting > for NIT acquisition. .. it'll then scan the services and return > you back to a tv channel. > > Now check channels 33, 34, 35, 36 and 37 > > I also discovered 30 or so channels on 12720Ghz, 30000SR, V POL. > Only 1 channel was active with a "AURORA VISION TEST" test > pattern. > > You can send large denomination notes to me at .... oh never > mind. 8-) > > My advice is not to do this. You may be breaking the law, you > may be voiding your warranty... you may trash your decoder. > > Bottom line - don't blame me. > > ... I wonder if we'll see Olympics Feeds on the MEDIASAT links? > > Cheers, > > jas.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9f37,a6b07fb2416c5542,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9f37,public X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,a6b07fb2416c5542,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10a71c,a6b07fb2416c5542,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a71c,public From: "Mark Dawson" <mddawson@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Hacking the UEC 660 Foxtel Satellite Decoder Date: 2000/11/19 Message-ID: <TUMR5.36743$SF5.674259@ozemail.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 695347780 Distribution: world References: <39C0CD03.149D7437@swami.pcguru.com.au> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 974625459 210.84.112.95 (Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:17:39 EST) Organization: OzEmail Ltd, Australia X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:17:39 EST Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.tv.pay,alt.satellite.tv.australasia