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Technology Enthusiast Saul

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Hardly visible from the street: all the dishes on the roof and side of Saul Spinetti’s house in São Paulo.

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11 Out of a Total of 16 Satellite DishesTechnology Fan Saul Can Hardly Fit Any More Satellite Antennas

Saul Spinetti in his living room in front of his reception system. He has two satellite receivers that are connected in parallel to his 11 dishes via DiSEqC switches. “The one receiver has more features; the other has a better Blind Scan.” On the TV monitor Saul tuned into the TPA channel from Angola on TELSTAR 12. In general it’s a difficult satellite to receive in Sao Paulo because of its low elevation.

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What does a technology fan from Brazil do when he picks a German visi-tor up from the Metro station? Saul Spinetti managed to surprise us: during the ride through Jardin Maria Estella, a suburb of the metropolis São Paulo with its 12 million inhabitants, a live German radio program was playing from his car radio. A few years ago this would have been technologically impossible, but today it’s just a question of connectiv-ity: Saul simply used his iPhone and 3G Internet connection to receive a Ger-man radio station and played it back on his car radio through its audio inputs.

Obviously Saul is a technology fan. He has 11 satellite dishes installed on the roof of his house and can receive all of them simultaneously with his two satellite receivers through his 16-input multiswitch without reconnecting any-thing. The still leaves him with five free inputs, “but I don’t have much room for any more satellite dishes”, says Saul.

The small antennas for the Ku-band satellites that he can receive using 60cm dishes have covered all of those satellites. The only thing missing is antennas for C-band satellites. “But there’s absolutely no room for any larg-er dishes.”

Saul Spinetti works in an animal sup-ply factory. He acquired his first dish in 2005. “I was so unhappy with the pic-ture quality and selection of program-ming from our terrestrial broadcaster back then that I decided to give DirecTV a try.” He was thrilled: finally excellent picture quality and he was even happy with the choice of programming.

Two years later came the second sat-ellite dish: “I wanted to receive GAL-AXY 28.” Two more dishes followed but that’s when the problems started: “The installers didn’t know what they were doing and couldn’t properly install these antennas.” Saul Spinetti was frustrated until he stumbled across Carlos from Antenaomegasat (TELE-satellite al-ready reported on this online shop and installer). He finally found someone that could properly set up his anten-nas and organized them by installing a matching multiswitch.

Since then Carlos has installed more dishes for Saul Spinetti at a rate of al-most one every six months. “Each time I had to sit down and talk with my wife”, grins Saul, “now I have a total of 11 dishes.”

What does a guy like Saul enjoy

watching the most? “I am always im-pressed with the picture quality of NHK HD on INTELSAT 9.” Saul has a big screen TV and naturally wants to enjoy the picture quality. “Even Brazil’s TV Bandeirantes transmits an excellent HD picture.” He also likes to watch CCTV-4’s Spanish-language channel.

“I’m also a passionate feed hunter”, explains Saul, “and enjoy watching the feeds on HISPASAT, INTELSAT 85 and TELSTAR 12.“ He trades information with other feed hunters. “We meet on the Internet page www.exploradores-desatelites.com.”

With any luck he’ll manage to install a twelfth dish. “I would point that one to BRASILSAT 4.” He also likes the AMC6 satellite in the C-band, “but in this case there’s interference with terrestrial sig-nals.”

As a technology fan, he also equipped his home with cameras. He can check out his security cameras at any time with his iPhone and 3G network.

Saul Spinetti is making good use of today’s technology and really enjoys doing it.

1. A 1.2-meter dish for C-band reception in the foreground and another smaller 60cm antenna.2. Three of the 60cm antennas that Saul erected on his house.