I heard from a German hotel manager in Pattaya (Naklua Road) that there
have been pirated cards, when UBC was still in Irdeto
1.
I guess these must have been simple AU GWs with a single provider on it.
But UBC changed meanwhile to Irdeto
2, so forget this a least for now.
http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/ubc.html
I tried myself many days to get in touch with the sat community there,
but I couldn't find any one who had only the smallest idea about this,
neither in BKK nor in Pattaya. At the end of my holidays I found out, that
subscriptions and receivers can be bought at the Big-C (not the desease ;) )
supermarket chain.
The receivers have a built-in Irdeto CAM and 1 card slot.
Subscriptions cost about 1500 Baht per month.
When you are in Thailand and you ask
Average Joe about something like:
"Where can I find digital sat receivers" ?
no one will understand what you want (even not in the big electronic
department in the "Central Plaza" shopping mall in BKK). My impression was,
that almost all sellers are illiterate peasants from the Thai/Lao border (Isan)
Better ask for
UBC so almost everyone will understand what you mean.
It took me even 2 weeks to find this out.
After coming back to Europe I found this by chance on a
Dave/Charlie board:
http://id-discussions.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64023
I should have gone to
China Town in BKK, there are allegedly some electronic dealers
who are experts. Generally the Chinese are a more educated ethnic minority
in Thailand (and other South East Asian countries), so you will be probably
more successful asking one of them for some technical background about anything.