I'm not going to get too explanitory with this since this it's fairly
fringe/guru level hacking and I'm a believer in the user figuring out for
themselves. I provide the background or research material, and you as the user
do with it what you will.
There's actually nothing overly far out about DVB-S stuff, but there is simply
more of a barrier to getting involved becuase it involves more effort than just
banging away at a computer or lab bench. There is an investment involved for
dish(es), receivers, tuners, and then there's the physical installation of the
dish, coax, etc.. Another thing is all the terminology and general scientific
understanding of what's going on. You don't just throw this together and
expect it to work.
When you finally get setup and understand what you're doing, there is a huge
world here to explore and lots of neat stuff to be seen and do. Due to the
captial and labor involved with getting setup, I suppose some folks felt that
"security through obscurity mantra" was sufficient to keep people out, rookie
mistake!
TEXT Some DVB-S scanning technique.
TEXT Additional notes on creating DVB virtual adapters.
TEXT More notes on setting up an adapter and dumping data from it.