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TVRO Website ASIATVRO, China

Best source of information for

TVRO fans (Satellite DXer) in China
Regularly updated by Xiaojun Tan
Thanks to ad banners, Xiaojun
Tan can maintain his website full
time
Always in contact with active
satellite DXers in China

www.ASIATVRO.com

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TVRO Website ASIATVRO, China

The Information
Source for Satellite
DXers in China
Xiaojun Tan has been operating the
www.ASIATVRO.com Internet site since
the year 2000. There youll find everything you need to know in detail about
all the satellites in the Chinese sky. He
even publishes a frequency list that
is regularly updated. All the satellites
from 49E to 172E are listed. Xiaojun
Tan lives in Guangzhou, the capital of
the Guangdong province in southern
China and thats where we met up with
him.
His first experience with satellite
reception occurred in 1998: Thats
when I bought my first satellite dish;
it was 75cm in diameter. He used that
dish to receive the APSTAR 7 satellite
at 76.5E. Two years later he started
his website as a BBS (Bulleting Board
System). I also published quite a bit of

satellite product news.

Since 2007 hes been working full
time for his own website. This is made
possible by the satellite dealers and
manufacturers that advertise on my
site. This works only because Xiaojun Tang spends almost all of his time
keeping his site up to date.
He gets help from roughly 2000 active TVRO fans thats what the satellite DXers in China call themselves
from the English expression TV Receive Only. Unfortunately, not everything is rosy in Xiaojun Tans life: When
I moved into a new apartment in 2009,
I was not allowed to erect any satellite
dishes. Since then hes only been able
to watch satellite TV when he drops by
his many TVRO friends in Guangzhou
to talk shop. The active TVRO fans

Guangzhou

meet once a month to share their experiences, he tells us, and weve also
already met up at the CCBN trade show
in Beijing.
With an average of 5000 active
threads every month, its easy to see
that his website is heavily used. The
TVRO fans in China can use this website to find out everything they need
to know for their hobby. Xiaojun Tan
is convinced that satellite reception in
China will continue to grow, especially
for the reception of HDTV channels.
The necessary bandwidth for HDTV is
only available through satellite technology, he is convinced. With his www.
ASIATVRO.com website he has become and will be for the future the right
source of information for all the satellite reception friends in China.

Xiaojun Tan presents on his

laptop his very successful website

for Chinese TVRO fans: www.
ASIATVRO.com

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