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TELE-satellite International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine
— 09-10/2012
— www.TELE-satellite.com
He’s been installing antennas for 40
years. “I erected my first antennas
back in 1966”, he says remembering
the start of it all. When the first satel-
lite signals began streaming down into
Brazil, Nivaldo da Silva became instant-
ly excited about this new technology.
“There was hardly any literature on the
subject. Back then we had to work out
everything ourselves - we even built
the parabolic dishes ourselves.”
The first attempt was not very suc-
cessful: “We simply couldn’t find the
satellite signal.” Eventually they did
succeed when they acquired a used
satellite dish and successfully installed
it.
Now there was nothing to hold him
back and Nivaldo da Silva installed
one system after the another. He be-