Last night I managed to get a strong signal from Optus C1 with my mish-mash of satellite receiving equipment. It was my intention to work on producing a smart card as part of my academic interest in satellite technology. After reading up on the “Irdeto 2″ cipher, and the function of ecm’s, emm’s and cas values, there wasn’t going to be an easy way. I need some more equipment. For the meantime, I’m going to stay on to Ku band and see what else I can pick up. I would be particularly interested in moving amateur UHF, but I’m yet to come across any satellites that claim to be for that purpose.