Another avenue for radio hacking geeks, back when AO-40 was alive people were using satellite LNBs to listen to the Ka or Ku band downlink on 2 meter band and uplinking on the 70cm band by transmitting FM tx as morse code.
This reminded me that we can grab a cheap LNB and use our rtl-sdr to decode some signals, with the DVB driver we bight be able to force a dvb-s decode. Who knows what the difference is between DVB-Terestrial and DVB-Satellite is?
I noticed I have a satellite dish on my rental, if I can figue how to power it up I will see what I can scan for with Kaffeine on Ubuntu as well as RTL-SDR on my N900.
this $8 LNB http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Single-S...item2c621053ed
downconverts to freqs that the R820t can handle. No dish? DIY one with foil and cardboard or buy a wok at the department store.
http://goughlui.com/?p=5072