Sea Of Dishes

[ACRadio]

Well after a little difficulty I got this picture uploaded to the site. I thought this was a unique picture which shows a sea of dishes...the photo was taken in Cairo, Egypt.

 

[guapoharry]

Interesting. Thanks...

 

[glater]

Incredible!!

 

[marco916]

Cool

What birds are they hitting, looks like some where in the Middle East.

 

[guapoharry]

I'm guessing..... Cairo, Egypt....

 

[Sadoun]

With a population of 6.8 million[2] spread over 214 km2 (83 sq mi), Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt as well as one of the most densely-populated cities in the world. With an additional ten million inhabitants just outside the city, Metro Cairo resides at the center of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the eleventh-largest urban area in the world.[1] Cairo, like many large cities in developing countries, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – currently the only on the African continent – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world,[3] with over 700 million passenger rides annually.

Source: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo"]Cairo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Zad-Cairo.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Zad-Cairo.jpg/250px-Zad-Cairo.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/5/5c/Zad-Cairo.jpg/250px-Zad-Cairo.jpg[/ame]

BTW, in the 11 century Cairo had street lights (oil lamps) and 500,000 inhabitants. London the largest city in Europe at that time, had only 40,000 inhabitants.

Cairo has Al-Azhar University, founded in 975, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation"]List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Mediaeval_universities.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Mediaeval_universities.jpg/200px-Mediaeval_universities.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/2/2f/Mediaeval_universities.jpg/200px-Mediaeval_universities.jpg[/ame].

 

[Tron]

Well after a little difficulty I got this picture uploaded to the site. I thought this was a unique picture which shows a sea of dishes...the photo was taken in Cairo, Egypt.

Yikes! Call the neighborhood HOA!

 

[Smith P.]

I saw same pictures taken somehwere in Iran [Tehran ?] and India.

 

[Skyscanner]

Wow, and I thought I was an FTA nut!

 

[phpinfo]

That is a great shot! Very interesting.

 

[italsat1]

DISH HEAVEN!!!

 

[TRG]

I'll bet there are no OTA signals in Cairo so everything has to come via satellite.

 

[guapoharry]

That's a bold statement.

I'm bored, so the topic of television in Egypt has gotten my interest accordingly...

There is a Cairo [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower"]Cairo Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Cairotower.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Cairotower.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Cairotower.jpg/175px-Cairotower.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/a/a0/Cairotower.jpg/175px-Cairotower.jpg[/ame]. That was completed in 1961.

What did Egyptians do prior to TVRO reception? ....Made possible in the 1980s

According to the CIA World Factbook there were 98 television broadcast stations in all of Egypt in September 1995. Egypt is three times the size of NewMexico and has a population of 83 million according to estimates....

Maybe people have a dish to view stuff that is forbidden. Maybe the OTA stuff, if it exists is government run... (just a theory)

 

[Sadoun]

Some of the Popular satellite in the Middle East and North Africa

Nile Sats Hundreds of Arabic FTA channels
Arab Sats Hundreds of Arabic & African FTA channels
Badr Sats Hundreds of Arabic FTA channels
Hotbird Sats 100s of European FTA channels
Astra Sats 100s of European FTA channels

In total, a viewer in Egypt will literarily be able to view 1500+ FTA TV channels off these satellites. So, we can call it FTA Heaven in Egypt

 

[guapoharry]

That's pretty cool.

Free MTV. Free CNN. Free Nick. Free news channels. Free Comedy Central. Free porn? How do they do it? Could it be they fund it by showing 24-36 commercials per hour? Oh, wait... that's what they do here in NA, but we pay for it.

There sure are a lot of analog channels on Astra... Is that four different birds, all at 19.2? That's crowded...

 

[meinename]

That's pretty cool.

Free MTV. Free CNN. Free Nick. Free news channels. Free Comedy Central. Free porn? How do they do it? Could it be they fund it by showing 24-36 commercials per hour? Oh, wait... that's what they do here in NA, but we pay for it.

There sure are a lot of analog channels on Astra... Is that four different birds, all at 19.2? That's crowded...

A lot of Germany still has and uses analog Satellite receivers, or so I'm told

Not all that crowded when you consider they get 2 GHz to fit across the 4 birds
When all we get is 500 MHz for FSS Ku and 500 for DSS Ku, it seems almost par for the course, considering everything for Mexico and Central/South America gets 10.7-11.7