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From: faunt@netcom.Netcom.COM (Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604)
Subject: Re: new to the group / FAQ
Organization: at home, in Oakland
	<FAUNT.93Jan22081743@netcom.Netcom.COM>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:30:09 GMT

Following up my own article.  Unfortunatley, some of the telephone
numbers in Satellite TV Sourcebook are incorrect.The number for DBS
Satellite Television is 800-350-0256, not 327-2345.  The person at the
second number had the right number, though.
The number for The Sky Store is also incorrect.  I've not found the
corrct one yet.
From: gonzato@capitoglio.greco-prog.fr (GONZATO Jean-Christophe)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: ASTRA 1C
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:49:42 GMT
Organization: ENSERB (Electronic & Computer Science School) Bordeaux FRA

Hello & HNY everybody,

I would like to know when the ASTRA 1C will start to broadcast the new channels.
Do you know what will be theses new channels. Will we have some spanish's tv or
Italian's tv or french's tv.

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR ANSWERS.


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From: brc@halcyon.com (Brian Cartmell)
Subject: Westar 4/Trans 17 6.2audio
Organization: Encryption
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:29:44 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew what data format Westar 4 Trasponder 17
Audio 6.2 is in?

Thanks
-Brian
From: Joseph_Jackson@transarc.com
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: Programmable remotes
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:24:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.YfN29=X0BwwL1JuPsM
	<1993Jan21.191641.22706@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: Sponsored account, Applications Software, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

A long while back, someone on this list mentioned an article in Byte
or Popular Electronics that described some sort of a programmable IR
remote control.  I never found that article, but would like to check
it out.  (I'm mostly interested in a description of the IR signals so
I can play with a homebrew IR receiver/sender.)

If anyone knows what magazine and issue had such an article, please
let me know!

Joe Jackson.
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: NHK gone(?)
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:00:34 GMT
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello) writes:
>I should point out here that NHK is and always has been available on
>PanAmSat Ku, channel 14 on my Drake 1424.

	ITC?  I don't have Ku (yet).  I worry I might have to replace the
dish to do it.

>I noticed it was missing from C-band last night too...wonder what's up.

	I found them again last night (on the one sat I didn't check the
previous night): F1/17.  I real shame, since even in the dead of winter
F1 is only barely watchable with heavy filters (I'm using 20Mhz, with high TI
filters on my Monterey).  F1 is in the top of a tree across the road from my
house...  Come summer, you can't even tell where F1 is.  Time to find out who
owns that (undeveloped) property, and ask if he'd like some firewood for
"free"... ;-)

	F2/22 now has SportsChannel NY, and several other F2 transponders
have lit up with refugees from F4/F6/whatever you want to call it.

-- 
GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
 - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch

Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
From: rkobenter@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: re: Dubbing and North America
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:55:48 -0800
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

re: Dubbing

Short post from me.. thanks to those who eMAILed me about my TV5 request
I'll get back to u soon..
About the German dubbing.. some thoughts.

In a way its understandable, German is after all the most spoken 'native'
language in Western Europe. English being the most spoken period. But
anyway, the majority of Germans want services in 'their' language
just as the Americans do, difference is that many Germans can make
their way thru a second (or 3rd) language. I find it great that the
ARD/ZDF show two-language version movies (and series: Golden Girls).
Its something I wish Mother Broadcasting (CBC/SRC) would do here
but they are still mono with no signs of changing (soon..).

We have a very similar situation in Quebec where (at least the SRC)
dubbs everything except 'FRENCH' movies into Quebecois. If the movie
was American and a euro-French soundtrack is available, they will
broadcast the 'Quebec-French' version!! here its a case of linguistic
smuggness and pride in their dialect. So , the point is, dubbing
takes place elsewhere than in Germany. It makes economic sense to
do it in Germany, not here, but here it is Politically correct!


Its too bad that English speaking North Americans detest Dubbed
and subtitled movies on TV. Some exceptions come to mind but very very
few. the ZDF series 'BLACK FOREST HOSPITAL' and the SRC series 'EMILE'.
Occassionally CBC will air subtitled films in their midnight cinema
but they are the only ones. A rarity. Its too bad because some good
movies come out of places like the former CSFR and other points east of
Berlin!

robert kobenter
rwkobent@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
 
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From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: Multicanal Omnivision on PAS-1
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:38:57 GMT

For the longest time there was a slide that said "Multicanal Omnivision"
on PAS1-2(C).  Suddenly last week a VC-1 signal appeared there with
clear audio that sounded like movies and sporting events. All this in
Spanish.  I believe the station comes from Venezuela.

They were in the clear last night with a baseball game.  This is the
strongest signal on PAS-1 C-band; anybody see it outside the southeast?
-- 
                   Jay Novello                 jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
                         Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Programmable remotes (was Re: Apology: Superguide - more info)
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:06:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <D2150040.o3ieki@howtek.MV.COM>, system@howtek.MV.COM (System Administrator) writes...
>BTW, Jasco makes a universal remote that is great and cheap.  If you ever
>need to use it with a Superguide box, they have 'captured' it as Sat type
>311.  (This will make sense to Jasco owners).
> 

This leads me to a question about URCs. 

Does anyone make one which is intended for use with TVRO or at least has
sufficient keys to operate an IRD as one 'device'. I have the original Memtek
8-in-1 and while it controls the IRD just fine, I have to spread the functions
over two 'devices' which makes it clumsy to use for some operations.
Pre-programmed ones that I've played with require you to enter an EMACS like
control-meta-backhand sequence for anything more complex than a channel number.

The goal here is to have something that normal human beings (i.e. the rest of
the household) can operate.

Didn't (doesn't) STS make a programmable IRD remote?

gary
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:35:56 -0500
From:         Elmer Beachley <etb@CS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: WEFAX/PRESS PICTURES

Ken:

I've also used the Software Systems demodulator and it works well.

Was your receiver an I-Com?  Any idea what the fm if bandwidth is?

What is at 4.020 Mhz on K2?  What transponder?  I was able to find some
wire photos on K2 awhile back.

Elmer Beachley etb@cs.pitt.edu
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:57:30 -0400
From:         "Ed Bailey, Systems Group, X1-7560" <BAILEY@NIEHS.BITNET>
Subject:      From whence does the VC data stream cometh?

    The other night I was doing that ol' "add synch and invert the video"
    trick to look at the VCII+ stuff in the VBI and HBI, and I got to
    thinking about where all this stuff comes from.  I mean you have the
    following "inputs":

        o The digitized program audio
        o Program-specific info (program titles, "TVN time schedules)
        o Module authorization data

    Now the audio has to come from, say, HBO.  So does the program-specific
    info.  I imagine the hardware that is doing this is some GI stuff that
    takes normal NTSC video and stereo input, and does the video inversion,
    synch suppression audio digitization, and program specific info
    encoding.  So where does the authorization data come from, and how does
    it get into the signal?  Does the GI VideoCypher "scrambler" at HBO
    have an authorization data stream input connector?  Or does it show up
    at the uplink, and get mixed in there?

    Then there's the authorization data stream itself.  I can contact any
    one of a boat-load of "service providers", give them my authorization
    number, and get myself set up in minutes.  Do these service providers
    all dial into that DBS authorization center I've heard GI runs?

    And how about when I talk to these service providers, they tell me to
    just tune into *any* one of the channels to which I'm going to
    subscribe, and I get authorized.  This implies that the data stream is
    managed from a single point, and is somehow sent to every broadcaster
    (or uplink site).  Does GI's DBS center really have dedicated phone
    lines to HBO, Cinemax, or their uplink sites?  Just how does this all
    work?

                        Ed

Ed Bailey, Computer Scientist, Computer Sciences Corp.
(contracted to: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Internet: bailey@vaxe.niehs.nih.gov (or vaxc or vaxd)
  BITnet: BAILEY@NIEHS.BITNET
   Voice: (919)541-7560
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:54:00 EST
From:         Joe Slater x7534 <SASJZS@VMS.SAS.COM>
Subject:      RE: ACC (women's) basketball

From: Eric Turkheimer <ent3c@FERMI.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Organization: University of Virginia

>Along the same lines, did anyone come across the UVA-Maryland women's
>game?  It was televised but I couldn't find it.

No, but I did see the Ga.Tech, Fla.St. game last week on (I think) G6. That
was the first time I had seen ACC Women's basketball on the sat.

Joe Slater
sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Mine opinion is just that.
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Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:20:34 -0600
From:         F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET

Subject: Reception in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    On what satellite, and transponder, can the following
channels be found ?

                      * WTN
                      * ITN
                      * ESPN International
                      * C-SPAN
                      * Worldnet
                      * SKY TV
                      * AFRTS

     From a loaction in Riyadh Saudi Arabia .

     PLEASE DIRECT YOUR REPLIES TO: F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET
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From: lis@mfltd.co.uk (Linus Surguy)
Subject: VideoCrypt Decoders
Organization: Micro Focus Ltd., Newbury, UK
Distribution: eu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:51:05 GMT


Does anyone know if a text file exists that describes the techniques used in
the Videocrypt encription system - purely on a techincal overview level as I am interested in the technology that is used in such equipment!

Thanks in advance!

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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:20:42 +0200
Comments:     Internet address: bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il. Bitnet address:
              bimacs.bitnet. Old internet address (bimacs.biu.ac.il) is
              available only temporarily.
From:         Yaacov ben-yaacov <yaacov@BIMACS.CS.BIU.AC.IL>
Subject:      Superbowl

Does anyone know on what channel i can receive the superbowl
I receive sattelites from 105 E  (Asiasat) to 27.5 West (intelsat)
thanks.
                        Yaacov Ben-Yaacov
                        Internet : yaacov@bimacs.biu.ac.il
                        Bitnet   : yaacov@bimacs.bitnet
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:51:28 EST
From:         Bill Jones <wejones@CBDA7.APGEA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: VCII-RS battery life

>
> Has anyone out there actually had a battery go dead on their VCII+ (any
> variant)? Or have any of you actually seen a VCII+ with a dead battery.
>
> I do not know if there is a problem with VCII+ and the SRAM backup battery or
> not.
>
> Way, way back there was apparently a problem with the batteries in some of the
> very early model VCIIs. A lot of people have made a lot of money since then
> selling battery upgrade kits etc.
>
> I note that this rumour has recirculated nearly every time GI brings out a new
> model of the VCII/II+. When I bought my system, it had a then new 018 board,
> and everyone 'knew' that they had battery problems. When the 032 boards
> appeared, everyone 'knew' that it used an undersized battery that just
 wouldn't
> last. And so on.
>
> Oh, the system with the 018 board spent it's first year only being powered up
> when I was actively tinkering with the system. It was completely unplugged for
> at least 12 hours/day, and the battery did not die.
>
> Again, I don't know if there is or is not a battery problem with the VCII+.
 I'd
> like to hear about it from someone who has experienced it first hand before
> being concerned about it.
>
> GI could have gone a long way to eliminate this VCII paranoia by publishing a
> theory of opeation manual for the damn thing, IMO.

You have brought up a subject that I have been curious about.  I had one of
the original 010 boards, which everyone said would die after 3 years.
After 2 1/2 years I figured that it was time to upgrade, so I got a "new"
IRD with a 018(or 032, can't remember) board. The 010 board has sat
in a box for 2-3 years, and was still working when I powered it up last
spring.  It begins to look like these rumors of battery problems may have
been started by GI to get us to upgrade more often.  Relative to the RS boards,
I don't know how anyone could say that there was a problem at this time since
there hasn't been time for any of the batteries to go bad yet.  I suspect that
people are assuming that there is a problem because of the rumors about the
010/018 boards, and those rumors seem to be false, or at least whatever
problems that might have occurred must have been due to other problems on the
board rather than a design problem.
>
From: mjwagner@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Mike Wagner)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Radio station list
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:44:20 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I responded to someone offering a list of radio station frequencies but
I unfortunatly mailed the request to the wrong address.  Would whoever
posted that message, please add me to your list?  thank you very much
=======================================================================
// Mike Wagner //   Ball State Graphics   // mjwagner@bsu-cs.bsu.edu // 
/      
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:36:32 -0500
Reply-To:     cosell@world.std.com
From:         Bernie Cosell <cosell@WORLD.STD.COM>
Organization: Fantasy Farm Fibers
Subject:      Re: Dishcetra for December 1992 and January 1993 sent out...
              <roberts@TRITON.UNM.EDU>) (at Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:10:29 GMT)

} I just sent out the dishcetra magazine for Dec 1992 and Jan 1993 to
} those on the mailing list.
}
} If you want a copy and are not on the list, you can Email for one and
} I'll put you on the list for it.

Could you send me a copy?  Thanks
  /Bernie\
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Fantasy Farm Fibers, Pearisburg, VA         (703) 921-2358
From: mjwagner@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Brother Esau)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Basic Satellite ?'s
Date: 26 Jan 93 04:01:54 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

My parents just bought a dish/controller and I was wondering what kind
of interesting things I could do with it/ receive with it. (besides espn
and the movie channels ;)  In particular, I am very interested in finding
out how to find specific radio stations or if indeed it is possible.
I am also in the dark about what exactly a 'feed' is.  Also, our receiver
has a stereo/mono audio channel and I wondered if the channels automatically
tune to the correct/best frequencys or if one has to do it manually.  (There
is an option to do it.)

thanks
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// Mike Wagner //                         // mjwagner@bsu-cs.bsu.edu // 
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From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Subject: Re: Phase Jitter?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:36:47 GMT


In article <101190024@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, goris@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Andy Goris) writes...
>  2. I've seen two friends satellite systems, and both of them have a type
>     of noise that I don't understand.  It's not sparklies or snow;  it looks
>     like very slight jitter in the  horizontal sync.  Is this caused by

Was that the only impairment to the picture, in particular were there any
'sparklies'? Impulse noise (sparklies) will affect the entire scan line,
including the synch pulse and other parts of the scan line that are not
normally visible. If this is what is happening, the noise can alter the
recognition of the horizontal synch pulse, causing jitter.

When I've seen this, running the signal through a video processor cleans things
up. It also helps make the sparklies less obvious (I'm using the old RS Color
Processor which acts as an effective low pass filter as well as cleaning up
synch).

gary
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:25:29 +0100
From:         "Wolfgang R. Schulz" <wrs@MCSHH.HANSE.DE>
Subject:      Re: New Music Channel in Europe
              28, 93 02:59:50 pm

Johannes Strasser writes:
>
> Autstrian Newspaper *Die Presse* wrote today that the german music channel
> VIVA will start broadcasting on August 19th. VIVA will be partly funded by
> Warner Music Germany and technical assistance should come from VOX the latest
> german information channel.
>
> Hannes
>

That's correct, August 19th is starting date. It will be on
Eutelsat 13 degrees east only. It will originate from Cologne,
and they plan to have "40% of German Music", whatever that may be.

Wolfgang


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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:20:05 +0100
From:         Roger.Wennstrom@LU.ERISOFT.SE
Subject:      BBC now only in D2MAC on Intelsat 27.5 West

As promised BBC have now switched to D2-MAC on the 25/1. They are still
using two transponders on Intelsat 27.5 W, but no Eurocrypt yet.

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From: ccofjg@dct.ac.uk (Frazer Greig)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: What to do with a Marcopolo receiver.
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:55:44 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <2833@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, arw@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Whitham) writes:
> Hi, 
>    I don't suppose that anyone could tell me if there are any satellites
> up which can be picked up by the old BSB DMAC squarial system?
> I know that there are D2MAC satellites (french and german) but these
> don't give stable pictures.
> or is is a case of chucking it in the bin?
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Adam Whitham, MSc Materials Chemistry, The Chemical Laboratory, University of
> Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS, UK.


The simple answer is no, because of the polarisation of the squarial, it uses
right hand circular polarisation. Therefore it can only pick up signals from
satellites that use right hand circular polarisation, eg TDF1/2.

You can have your existing Ferguson BSB system upgraded to receive D2MAC/PAL
for around #70. If you have a Philips, Nokia (like me) or Tatung you can trade
them in for a Ferguson D2Mac/Pal receiver for #99.

Contact Trac Systems on 0642 468145, 452555 (lines are busy).

-- 
Frazer Greig                 Internet: CCOFJG@DCT.AC.UK
Computer Centre                 Janet: CCOFJG@UK.AC.DUNDEE-TECH
Dundee Institute of Technology
From: bn559@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Anyone bought one of the Satellite for USENET feeds???
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:45:20 GMT
Reply-To: bn559@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Hughes)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hi,
   has anyone bought one of the Sat. advertised here a few time,
where you get (for 2 grand) a complete sat. system for USENET feeds?
Is there a cheaper way of doing this? (No, there are NO local systems)
Can the hardware be bought seperatly and PAY for the feeds and the 
software?  Any help would be appreciated.  We would very much like
to start a UNIX usenet site here, (Monroe, LA), as there is not one
anywhere around (except the paranoid University who wont even let  
students HAVE access to usenet....!!)

Jay

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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:36:13 -0500
From:         Mike Gingell <aurs01!aurw6b!gingell@CONCERT.NET>
Subject:      Re: what's on Ku that's not on C?

Gary Bourgois writes:

> Nothing beats spun aluminium on KU though.
                           ^

Oooh! Oooh! Someone knows the correct spelling!  I am sure Webster
meant to put an 'i' in there, just like every other element with that
kind of name ending.  He probably forgot to run it through his spelling
checker :-)

I know this is irrelevant, but as a Brit I couldn't resist it.

Mike Gingell, Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA  (919) 850-6444
UUCP:       ...!mcnc!aurgate!aurfs1!gingell
Internet:   gingell%aurfs1%aurgate@mcnc.org
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