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aged to turn his hobby into
his profession!
Wang Yinchung explains
to us, “This residential
complex is made up of
about 50 apartment buildings
and houses roughly
1500 families.” Many of
them are from Japan and
Korea and naturally they
want to be able to see TV
from home. Wang Yinchung
erected a collection of satellite
antennas on top of
one of the apartment buildings
and installed all of the
distribution components in
the elevator control room.
Using original receivers
from Japan and Korea (provider:
Skylife), he takes all
of the desired channels and
routes them into the cable
system of the apartment
complex.
This, of course, begs the
question, what can an individual
person do if they
want to install a satellite
system?
Our satellite guide Hong
Bo referred us to Hang
Hao. He is one of those
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The uplink dishes for
Shanghai’s local TV channels
can be seen from the shopping
mall’s parking lot.
satellite installers that
theoretically doesn’t exist
yet is responsible for the
endless number of satellite
dishes that are installed
on balconies and walls for
renters and apartment
occupants.
But how do these people
know who to contact if
they want a dish installed?
You won’t find an ad for an
installer in any magazine or
newspaper or even in the
Internet. “That all happens
by word of mouth”,
explains Hang Hao, “A sat-
isfied customer will tell his
friend and that person will
tell another, and so on.”
We asked Hang Hao how
he managed to get into this
business: „I installed my
own first dish back in 2000.
Back then it was a 60cm
antenna for APSTAR 2A
reception at 76.5° east.”
In the meantime, Hang
Hao has become a full time
installer. “I install about
100 systems every month,
that is, dish, LNB, receiver
and mounting assembly.”