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COMPANY REPORT<br />
TVRO Website <strong>ASIATVRO</strong>, China<br />
• Best source of information for<br />
TVRO fans (Satellite DXer) in China<br />
• Regularly updated by Xiaojun Tan<br />
• Thanks to ad banners, Xiaojun<br />
Tan can maintain his website full<br />
time<br />
• Always in contact with active<br />
satellite DXers in China<br />
<strong>www</strong>.<strong>ASIATVRO</strong>.<strong>com</strong><br />
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COMPANY REPORT<br />
TVRO Website <strong>ASIATVRO</strong>, China<br />
The Information<br />
Source for Satellite<br />
DXers in China<br />
ëGuangzhou<br />
Xiaojun Tan has been operating the<br />
<strong>www</strong>.<strong>ASIATVRO</strong>.<strong>com</strong> Internet site since<br />
the year 2000. There you’ll find everything<br />
you need to know in detail about<br />
all the satellites in the Chinese sky. He<br />
even publishes a frequency list that<br />
is regularly updated. All the satellites<br />
from 49°E to 172°E are listed. Xiaojun<br />
Tan lives in Guangzhou, the capital of<br />
the Guangdong province in southern<br />
China and that’s where we met up with<br />
him.<br />
His first experience with satellite<br />
reception occurred in 1998: “That’s<br />
when I bought my first satellite dish;<br />
it was 75cm in diameter.” He used that<br />
dish to receive the APSTAR 7 satellite<br />
at 76.5°E. Two years later he started<br />
his website as a BBS (Bulleting Board<br />
System). “I also published quite a bit of<br />
satellite product news.”<br />
Since 2007 he’s been working full<br />
time for his own website. “This is made<br />
possible by the satellite dealers and<br />
manufacturers that advertise on my<br />
site.” This works only because Xiaojun<br />
Tang spends almost all of his time<br />
keeping his site up to date.<br />
He gets help from roughly 2000 active<br />
TVRO fans – that’s what the satellite<br />
DXers in China call themselves<br />
– from the English expression ‘TV Receive<br />
Only’. Unfortunately, not everything<br />
is rosy in Xiaojun Tan’s life: “When<br />
I moved into a new apartment in 2009,<br />
I was not allowed to erect any satellite<br />
dishes.” Since then he’s only been able<br />
to watch satellite TV when he drops by<br />
his many TVRO friends in Guangzhou<br />
to talk shop. “The active TVRO fans<br />
meet once a month to share their experiences”,<br />
he tells us, “and we’ve also<br />
already met up at the CCBN trade show<br />
in Beijing.”<br />
With an average of 5000 active<br />
threads every month, it’s easy to see<br />
that his website is heavily used. The<br />
TVRO fans in China can use this website<br />
to find out everything they need<br />
to know for their hobby. Xiaojun Tan<br />
is convinced that satellite reception in<br />
China will continue to grow, especially<br />
for the reception of HDTV channels.<br />
“The necessary bandwidth for HDTV is<br />
only available through satellite technology”,<br />
he is convinced. With his <strong>www</strong>.<br />
<strong>ASIATVRO</strong>.<strong>com</strong> website he has be<strong>com</strong>e<br />
and will be for the future the right<br />
source of information for all the satellite<br />
reception friends in China.<br />
■<br />
Xiaojun Tan presents on his<br />
laptop his very successful website<br />
for Chinese TVRO fans: <strong>www</strong>.<br />
<strong>ASIATVRO</strong>.<strong>com</strong><br />
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