Installation Guides

How to install a KU band H to H motor.

Link to a satellite elevation calculator. 

VAST high definition Australian free to air satellite TV information.

As part of the digital switchover, VAST satellite TV now offers viewers in poor TV reception areas including remote Australia and regional areas in South Australia and Victoria, the full range of digital TV channels previously only available to those living within range of a digital TV transmitter.  All you need is a satellite dish and VAST decoder with smartcard.  To find out if you are eligible to apply, visit www.mysattv.com.au then click on the Satellite Decoder Registration button on the top right.  This will take you to the Digital Ready website.  Type in your address into the address bar and click on go.  Then click on Satellite Eligibility to see if you are eligible for VAST.

Travellers can gain full access to the VAST service and the process has been made incredibly simple.  Visit http://www.mysattv.com.au/travellers.aspx and fill out the form.  Have your VAST decoder switched on and ready with the scrambled message displayed before you submit the form.  Within 30 seconds you'll be watching high definition TV and you can travel anywhere in the country and get access to the most advanced digital high definition service in the world.

UPDATE: Those living in rural and remote parts of WA who have a current Aurora smartcard that is registered to that property address for permanent access to GWN and WIN, can now access the VAST service.  An interim service (WA only) will be provided on the VAST platform that includes ABC1, ABC2, ABC NEWS24, SBS1, SBS2, GWN, WIN and Ten West.  Later in the year the additional digital channels will be made available through the WA VAST service and the VAST decoder will update automatically.

Altech UEC have released an upgrade pack that enables the DSD4121 satellite decoder to record your favourite shows direct to a hard drive thus making it a personal video recorder (PVR) - requires an external harddrive (not included).  The upgrade pack includes a new design PVR remote control and new software (loaded at the ALTECH UEC warehouse).  The PVR ready version model number is known as a DSD4121PVR.  Keep in mind that this decoder, being a single tuner, can only record one program at a time (whichever program the decoder is set to).  You cannot record a program while watching another.  You can however watch a recorded program while recording another channel so this is useful.  Of course, full PVR functions such as rewind, fast forward, pause etc are standard. 

NOTE - For those of you who have already purchased a DSD4121 VAST decoder who would like to upgrade the decoder to enable the PVR functions, an upgrade pack will be made available by January/February 2012. 

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Alden Automatic Satellite System

Satellite TV programming information

Download a PDF document that lists many of the international free to air channels available on most satellites from within Australia. 

A satellite TV primer in PDF format. 

Information on free to air satellites and channels.