In recent years not only the number of
satellites that serve TV station signals have
increased dramatically, also the number of
stations per satellite have gone up
significantly. If you are looking for a listing
of all satellites that are currently
up there, we suggest you click
satellites frequency lists for an updated
listing.
How many free to air TV channels
can you get in Bangkok?
Currently the satellite selection screen on
our PSI DP-303 receiver indicates that we
should be able to view well over 400 free to
air (FTA) TV channels. A number which must
include a number of duplicate channels as,
according to the PSI sat or other
frequency lists, this
number is larger than the total number of
channels on all satellites we should be able
to receive on our ditial receiver, in a
ideal situation. That our situation is
not quite as ideal as we had hoped for will
be explained further on this site. When we
let the automatic search form the menu /
satellite / option do it 's thing, we
noticed one possible reason for the larger
number of stations: it would appear that a
number of stations change their description
from time to time and this causes our
satellite TV receiver to interpret them as
new TV stations. As we did not
allow deletion of the exciting programs,
these "new" stations are now added
to the existing ones. (example: the TV
station formerly know under the name Malibu,
and until recently held the name Trace TV.
Although this is an excellent Music Channel
originating from cultural country of France,
we do believe that it occupying 1 channel on
our DP-303 satellite receiver is quite
enough).
So, we figured out 1 reason. What else could
it be? Ah! On another satellite we find several
dozens of channel that are only indicated by
ch. xx, without a name or other form of
indicator. When viewing them they all appear to
be some sort of sub channels of 1 or more of
the Christian and / or News Television stations
and they appear to be of the more temporary
kind. For now we select them as
"delete" via the Menu - channels
option. This was at the same time when this
year's first real thundershowers started to
move in...
Weather influences on satellite
signal reception:
Remember to never search for new channels /
stations / satellites or television frequencies
during a thunderstorm, or if you, for some
reason, feel like you do need to this, make
sure you do not allow the deleting of the TP
program. We spend a good 2 weeks without any of
the Thaicom-2 satellite's television
stations, due to a slip of the finger! And,
take my word for it: staying up half the night
while waiting for a hole to appear in the
clouds, is not an experience you would want to
share with us, especially as it seems to put a
bit of strain on marriages and / or other
relationships!? However, after using the digital
receiver for a few week and getting used to it,
one becomes more familiar with the small
adjustments it sometimes takes to have good
television reception, even during
thundershowers in our rain season.
Updating your firmware:
To get the most out of your satellite
Television viewing experience, if is sometimes
necessary to upgrade your satellite
receiver's firmware. Besides possible
updates of your system software, these updates
usually include the latest updates / additions
of satellites, transponders or TV frequencies
and if you have not been updated these
manually, you may find that there are a lot
news TV stations to watch after each upgrade /
update. More about this soon, after we will
have posted the latest DP-303 firm-ware.