It's unfortunate that businesses and websites like this are allowed to operate. These folk are usually fast change artists that pop up, take your money then disappear just to pop up elsewhere with a new name to do it all over again. When purchasing a product from any business its best to check out the business before purchasing products. See if they have a business license that is current, a reachable phone number, and a physical location, not a PO box. Do they have a good rating with the better business bureau? If they don' have these basic qualifications to do business legitimately it should be a red flag to the consumer to avoid them at all costs. Tek2000, aka satellites-galore, aka TVROSAT fails miserably at all of these. You decide, Buyer Beware! 

Tvrosat, Ricks, and others have hidden agendas they try to cover up using fables and folklore. My take is they want to attract unsuspecting fools and suck them into buying their cheap foreign fta junk. Which by the way have many reports all over of being just that, junk. Dragging Rainier into many discussions with bashing them shows they fear the truth getting out about their junk. Folk are starting to wise up, they want something that works. Rainier's equipment while may be pricy for some does that, it works, and works very well. Many good reports about what Rainier sells out there. I'm very satisfied with the D9865D Rainier sells. Its built like the old Chaparral receivers which were definitely high quality.  I recommend all who are tired of getting burned with those fta junker products to get Rainier products and see the difference. You always see posts of bugs, bricking etc in the fta forums using the fta dealers products. I never see that about Rainier's products. From my experience Rainier's products work flawlessly.  And with Rainier's 9865 you get the added benefit of subscribing to services like you could with your 4dtv. Those fta boxes cant do that nor ever will. 

Now for a little background history of tvrosat/satellitetesters. And some ideas about Alex Portillo aka John Simpson aka Carlos aka rooneysat aka BossHogg aka tekadmin aka etc.
Those that might have been around for the beginning of tvrosat will recall some posts about  PowerVu piracy. Posts extolling the prowess of a characters going by the monikers colibri and Wizard.  Posts how they had all the info necessary to freely steal from the PVu providers because the uplinkers were so ignorant to keep using the same old default keys. These pos(t)ers even had the audacity to boast how they couldnt be touched. How they had cracked open the world of PVu. All of this beginning in 2014!
Then the providers took notice and began changing keys to thwart the pirates.  So what does John Simpson do? He bans all talk of piracy and puts on his false face of fta satellite legitimacy.
But then, what does he do to continue this charade?  He also starts up another forum, satellitetesters, deceptively dedicated to satellite fta tvro, but with additional discussions freely advocating theft of encrypted signals, of course using his designated special stbs , ones with special add-on daughter boards. Daughter boards designed by his go to sources for piracy, including his Wizard, a name that used to be seen all over the other fta forms interchangeably with such aliases as Casper.
Keys were boldly posted in an announcement box for the latest PVu exploits for all to see – all including piracy investigators. Consequently it was easy for ICANN to build their case against satellitetesters to close that forum. They had caused all kinds of troubles for Rainier, preventing them from gaining traction with programming providers. Programming providers were reluctant to do business because of this known source of piracy. The day satellitetesters forum went dark was a day for celebration indeed!
Back to tvrosat. Emboldened by his delusions of success, tekadmin has openly posted feeds and muxes that were encrypted alongside ITC feeds for the pirates operating behind the scenes. Why post encrypted feeds if you only support legal fta? Seems that John Simpson never really intended to relent, does it?
If you have your doubts, just take a trip down memory lane at Wayback Machine to find the truths. Interesting slip on the part of John Simpson. He recently banned a new member whose username was VC2. Given his history of piracy in recent history, it takes no real stretch of the imagination to surmise that he was also involved in videocipher piracy back in the day. How very ironic.
   


 https://web.archive.org/web/20150106223520/http://www.satellitetesters.com:80/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160306100534/http://www.satellitetesters.com:80/forum/portal.php
 

I don't get it. Why can't the fta dealers TEK2000, TVROSAT, Ricks and others make it on the up and up? Why do they need to sell illegal equipment and steal to make a living? Guess its a form of drug dealing selling dope to the dopes. Usually the drug boys end up burning sooner or later. History shows us piracy always gets shutdown. STUPID STUPID STUPID!

Its best to stay away from anyone who promotes this type of activity. TVROSAT, TEK2000, John Simpson, got some shady deals going on. The sooner he's busted the better for the good c band folk.

Was wondering about something. Maybe some light can be shed about this. I noticed forums like Ricks and TVROSAT post feeds that are scrambled, why? I mean if a feed is scrambled that means you cant watch it, right. Or is it have something to do with pirate activities these guys are into? 

As to tvrosat, a lot has already been revealed in this thread. Rick Caylor has a checkered history as revealed here: http://www.legitfta.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-23618.html

There's more out there, just plug in a few search terms like Rick Caylor/sonicview to find them. Likewise with Alex Portillo/John Simpson.
"The truth is out there.............."   

I see now. These guys have been dirty for years. It's sad they drag the big dish name down with their crooket games.

It was pointed out to me that Mr Tvrosat Portillo called a cry for help thread BS on his "forum", a forum populated by lots of users of his own creation. If he's mad at FTA, then maybe he should find another "vocation."
Oh, that's right, once a crook always a crook. Nevermind.

A thread on another forum by a poster seeking help for a product that the vagabond BossHogg Portillo isn't supporting anymore:

https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/need-help-with-zgemma-h7-ac-receiver-please.378216/

Portillo has taken an old tact - calling a competitor scammers to discredit their reputations publicly. He did this openly back in his satellitetesters days & still does today. He can't hide his personality - its too twisted.

Ironic how he can call others scammers when it wasn't so long ago that he was conniving his patrons with Icelandic bitcoin schemes to purchase EOL Dreambox500HDs & other piracy goodies. This has been proven earlier in this same thread. He tried to erase his past, but the WayBack Machine still has some of his history for anyone to find.

His minion personalities appear in every FTA satellite forum out there. Only thing propping up his online "store" are the Chinese & their monies. Fake satellite dish inventories, fake receiver inventories ( as he did so frequently as BossHogg), fake usernames, fake stories to attract the uninitiated &, sorry to say it, gullible masses.
His zgumby box is a total joke. Go read up on it at legit fta. Promised the world & delivered an empty dirt lot in a back alley.
 
To put it simply: Promises made. Promises broken.