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The Australian Satellite FTA and Pay Television industry relies on satellite dishes and decoders installed at viewers homes for direct to home (DTH) access of satellite radio and television channels. To prevent anyone with their own satellite dish and receiver accessing these channels unrestricted, and avoiding paying a subscription where this applies, or accessing channels outside of the channel licence restrictions, the transmission signals are encrypted. Various receivers, with smartcards are used to control who can access the signals transmitted from the Optus B3 satellite. The links here go to pages both within this site, and to external sites, where detailed information on most of the decoders used by AUSTAR/FOXTEL/OPTUS AURORA can be accessed. Often manuals are not supplied by some service providers in Australia, the UEC manuals can be downloaded here For assistance on loading all Aurora and Pay TV services on a UEC decoder CLICK HERE Note: Not all Foxtel UEC model decoders are able toa ccess the Aurora service. As more information or other links become available they will be added to this page. GALAXY PACE DGT 400 decoder was originally imported into Australia by Australis Media (trading as Galaxy). They were manufactured initially in the UK - http://www.pace.co.uk/- and later in Thailand under licence. Many of these decoders have been installed by AUSTAR and a few by FOXTEL
Austar and Foxtel will be replacing all Pace decoders - the change-over is expected to be competed by December 2003.
Detailed information on the UEC DECODERS. These decoders are manufactured in South Africa by Several models of the UEC receivers are used in Australia for both the FTA AURORA platform and more recently by the FOXTEL satellite service. Pin number 9949.
DECODER ERROR MESSAGES
Downloaded are available for the UEC 642, 645 626 DECODERS and the INSTALLER'S MANUALS
Australian web users:- AUSTAR have exhausted their stocks of PACE DGT DECODERS and are beingchanged over to other decoders (SUNMOON or ADB) manufactured for AUSTAR in Asia for the satellite service. The software and installation information for the SUNMOON is almost identical as the UEC receivers, except the installers pin number which is 2878. At present no additional information on the SUNMOON DECODER is available, other than what you will find on the AUSTAR page. AUSTAR also may install a decoder manufactured by ADB, information on this new decoder can be found at the end of the Austar pages. Due to a recent software download to the ABD decoder some models can no longer be used to receive the Aurora channels - for those that can do so see HERE
Mentor Data System's STB3100 Digital Set Top Box  Many enthusiasts use a Nokia receiver. There are several models used, although some types are no longer manufactured so you may have to rely on a second hand unit. Each model has different specifications, to assist you in your choice go here
Additional info may also be obtained You can also import a NOKIA yourself from overseas New and secondhand units can often be obtained here. However, I have never dealt with this company so I can't vouch for their reliability. The Australian Satellite News Groups are often worth scanning for secondhand units. Up-to-date software for the Nokia can also be obtained HERE
TOPFIELD, HUMAX and HYUNDAI DECODERS FTA bouquets/services in 0.5 seconds. In theory, you should be able to mix (say) Irdeto CA and Viaccess CA - each in their own CI/CAM + card slot. Most of these decoders are available through Kristal Electronics (tel 61-7-4788-8902; fax 61-7-4788-8906, email kristal@ultra.net.au.)
http://www.dalsat.com.au
- DALSAT / Kristal Satellite Equipment, Brisbane, Queensland  MPEG-2 FAQ
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