Recent content by monsieurm

Sometimes it pays off when your university is nearby and you can still live at your parents' place. So satellite reception is at least one advantage of my current situtation. :D I would probably also have to find ways to fight my withdrawal symptoms. But as I can see you're handling it quite well.

As a matter of fact your IP address can be traced while downloading and uploading. According to German laws, uploading is illegal whereas downloading copyrighted material is not. The only problem with the torrent system is that you can't avoid seeding / uploading.

Are you still looking for a subscription? I wanted to PM you, but you've got that function turned off it seems.

Altruism and chivalry are believed to be dead - not on the web obviously. I think people find it entertainment and soothing to help others. For the same reason forums exist where they help their fellow members for nothing in return. :)

Yes, that's right. At the very beginning I wanted to add Amos on 4°W and perhaps Nilesat on 7°W. But so far I have been pretty content with what I'm receiving. So I'll wait for the motorised dish. Especially because signals from Nilesat are very weak at my location. And it's also correct that...

Thank you all for your compliments! :D I'm actually taking an additional motorised dish into consideration to receive the satellites I'm still missing. But this might not be feasible because of my neigbour's roof top. If I'm not mistaken and make sense out of the data on Google Earth my...

Hey guys, I have been reading in this forum for quite some time and decided it would be nice to post some pictures of my satellite dish. It has been on the roof of my garage since 2008. In the first photo I attached you can find all the satellites I currently receive indicated. :)

Hello everyone, first of all, I need to emphazise that I got friends living in the Netherlands that can definitely organize a subscription of the desired "Basispakket" for me. So I don't need to resort to any shady offers on the internet. Though, I haven't been able to get in contact with them...