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From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: Re: Failure of Aussat B2 Satellite!
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:02:04 GMT

johnh@CS.MU.OZ.AU writes:

>        Just heard that the recent launch of Aussat B2 was unsuccessful
>        due to the satellite (HS601 I think) failing to communicate
>        with ground control.

This is from today's Raleigh News & Observer, reprinted without
permission:

BEIJING -- A U. S.-made satellite launched with fanfare by China
disappeared Tuesday and the U. S. maker, Hughes Space and Communication
Co., was trying to find out whether it had been lost in space.

But the Chinese company that launched the satellite on Monday went ahead
with its celebration banquet and refused to comment on the
disappearance.  China has struggled to compete in the international
launch industry.

Officials from the Australian company Optus Communications, which owns
the satellite, and Hughes, of El Segundo, California, did not attend the
banquet.

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                   Jay Novello                 jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
                         Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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From:         James White <jfwhite@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TVRO YEAR IN REVIEW 1992 (NORTH AMERICAN TVRO)

On Thu, 31 Dec 1992, Robert Smathers wrote:

> Here is a long article I wrote to sum up TVRO 1992....
>
> Robert
> roberts@triton.unm.edu
> -=-=-
>

   ********>>>>  Robert,
                        Thanks for the super article!  I am absolutely
astounded at all the develpments in TVRO that happened this past year ---
taken all together like this, it is particularly mind blowing!
        Once more, my gratitude, and wishes for a prosperous and eventful
New Year,
                         --- Jake W. / UW Seattle
                                jfwhite@u.washington.edu
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From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
Subject: Re: BBC WSTV
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:14:02 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

In article <1992Dec23.131802.488@orbital.demon.co.uk>, steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec21.220625.16957@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
|> 
|> >BBC WSTV is currently News and documentary oriented, since the interesting
|> >(read saleable) programs are picked up by BBC enterprises, and sold
|> >individualy.
|> 
|> However, if WSTV is willing to pay the appropriate price for
|> distribution in a particular market then it can carry such programming.

What you are really saying is that BBCWSTV != BBC enterprises != BBC

So continuing to use "BBC" is really misleading - they should use
some other name for it.

I see this as simply a parasite organisation on the back of the BBC - living off
the BBC's reputation ...

Philip
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From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Subject: Fixed key?
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:25:52 GMT

I've noticed quite a few things have been in Fixed Key mode lately,
namely CNN/HN, HBO, TMC, TFC (all on G5), as well as WWOR-NY and 
a few scattered others.  What gives?  Is there some listing of what 
services are in Fixed Key and when/how long they are to remain that
way?  I've heard rumblings that the recent brash of Fixed Key stuff was
due to GI shutting off some of the cableco datastream codes, and giving
the cablecos time to purchase new descramblers.  Of course it could also
be program seller's pushing for subscription services... Also, is E! and
BET supposed to scramble this year?  I keep seeing them advertised as
parts of programming packages, but they are always ITC!  Is this just
hype on the part of the programmer's or have the people at E! having
such heavy delusions that they think people will actually pay for their
service (all four hours of repeats+Howard Stern).
From: Power@cup.portal.com (Ron A Uitz)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: KGAY
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:57:54 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Has anybody said is KGAY a "real" radio station - do they broadcast
>over the air in Denver?  I'd be curious to know if they actually have
>a broadcast license with that call.

They probably don't have a license since they are not a real radio 
station.  I don't know if the callsign is already in use; certainly, 
there is no other bar to the licensing of the callsign. . .  WGAY, 
99.5 FM in Washington, DC has had its callsign for decades.  
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From: steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch)
Subject: Re: BBC WSTV
Organization: TQM Communications, London, UK
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:18:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.220625.16957@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
>Fairly recently, satellite TV took off, and a natural assumption was that
>the BBC world service would get lots more money to extend into TV services.
>
>Instead, the government decided to create a new, UNFUNDED, enterprise;
>BBC World Service TV.

It wasn't actually the Government's idea. Since I believe the
mid-eighties, the BBC had been lobbying the Government to be allowed to
run a World Service TV station. However, the Government wouldn't
provide the funding for such a service. The only option left to the BBC
if they wanted to run it was to bring in commercial partners. WSTV is
now an independent profit-centre under the World Service.

WSTV's success has unfortunately brought a few problems for the BBC.
There have been rumblings that the model it uses could be used in other
areas. World Service Radio perhaps with the transmitters all run by
local organisations who pay the BBC a fee for the programming and
insert their own commercials?

>BBC WSTV is currently News and documentary oriented, since the interesting
>(read saleable) programs are picked up by BBC enterprises, and sold
>individualy.

However, if WSTV is willing to pay the appropriate price for
distribution in a particular market then it can carry such programming.

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From: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Subject: All my DS9 Feed Times were EST
Reply-To: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:50:39 GMT


In a previous article, vijay@ZYCAD.COM (Vijay Vaidyanathan) says:

>> PREMIERE
>>     Wed Dec 30/92    T301/19    6:45pm-9:00pm
>[ other times deleted ]
>
>EST? PDT?

Sorry, the feed times were Eastern Standard Time.  I meant to put that in
the article.
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From: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Subject: Mr. Bean
Reply-To: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:13:48 GMT


Does anyone know where I can find the British show _Mr. Bean_?

CBC used to carry it when they had a spare half-hour between a baseball
game and now defunct _The National_, but I haven't seen it since the end
of the baseball season!

I saw _Rowan Atkinson Alive_ the other day on CBC, which reminded me of
it.

Thanks.
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:38:24 -0600
From:         F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET

Subject: Magazines + Dish Type

     I would like to get a list of magazines that deal with issues of the
 following, with their FAX numbers and e-mail addresses;

                       * HOME SATELLITE SYSTEMS
                       * TVRO TECHNOLOGY
                       * SATELLITE TV
                       * INTERNATIONAL DIST. EDUC. VIA SATELLITE TV
                       * INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE TV SYSTEMS

    ALSO, I would like to know what differences, advantages, and
disadvantges of:

                       * MESH TYPE DISHES
                       * SOLID PANELS DISHES
                       * PERFORATED DISHES

     Particularly in remote areas of the Middle Easts


     PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY TO: F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET
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From: mr@delfin.com (Mark Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: Why is EVERYTHING good in the Western sats!
Reply-To: mark@delfin.com
Organization: Delfin Systems, Sunnyvale CA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:45:43 GMT

In article <D2150040.lrpdl3@phunt.MV.COM>, phil@phunt.MV.COM (Phil Hunt) writes:
|> Why are they putting everything good onto westernmost satellites?
|> 
|> Isn't that discriminatory against the East coast?
|> 
I feel the same way; except that I'm on the West Coast and can't see further
East than Spacenet 2. I am really disappointed that I can't get Nostalgia.

-- 
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From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
Subject: Telecom II F1 update (repost of an Email message)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 20:12:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na


I received this message from Jay and he has given me permission
to post it here:

 
  Robert, 
  
  I was just checking out Telecom II F1 at 8 degrees (in a previous message
  I referred to it as F2... should have been F1....) so here's an update.
  
  Channel 1:Entertainment programming in SECAM (ITC). Audio 6.60
 
  Channel 2:News programming in SECAM (ITC).  Audio 6.60
  
  Channel 3:"CTS-PBD" SECAM bars.  no audio.
  
  Channel 4:"CTS-PBD" SECAM bars.  no audio.
  
  Channel 5:different "CTS-PBD" SECAM bars.  no audio.  This was the
  strongest of the bunch, with Channel 1 as next strongest, then 2.
  
  I sure would like some help IDing these...may put out a request for help
  in the newsgroup.  I have no idea who CTS-PBD is.
  
  I went out in the back yard when the dish was down at 8 degrees and it
  doesn't look like a whole lot of work to clear that area.  There's a holly
  tree that's about ten feet tall and a cedar tree off to the side, but
  other than those, I should be able to clear a 12' path all the way back to
  the field in back of me (which is clear to the horizon) (Marie wants to
  save the holly and cedar).
  
  I saw something funny on TVE just now.  They have a game show called "Un,
  Dos, Tres".  Tonight they had a kids version with a Spanish, Christmas,
  Rock and Roll Dracula doing a live song.  It was quite hilarious, and
  instead of the regular host they had a very scantily-clad young lady. 
  After watching TVE and RTPi the last few days it seems that the Spanish
  and Portuguese have some Halloween Traditions mixed into their Christmas
  celebrations...witches and Dracula images.  Weird.
  
                    Jay Novello                 jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
 University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
                           Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
  
 
 -=-=-=-

That was the whole message.  If you know what CTS-PBD is, please let me 
know so I can put it in the next South Scanner chart.  

Robert
roberts@triton.unm.edu
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Subject: German TV "Deutsche Welle" now in USA
From: axgolinski@ualr.edu
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:41:24 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

On the 1st of November the German television "Deutsche Welle TV" started it's
transmission to North and South America.
The station now broadcasts for 14 hours via satellite. For viewers in Europe
this is more than double the viewing time, which until now, amounted to six
hours.
In North and South America, those who are intersted and who have their own
satellite antenna, can now, for the first time, find out immediately, what is
going on in Germany and the rest of Europe, on a daily basis. The program
travels in the direction of North and South America via satellite, the
INTELSAT-K satellite and can still be viewed in Europe on the usual frequency
of the EUTELSAT II-F1. INTELSAT-K is a KU-Band satellite, which is not very
common yet among direct broadcasters but will become soon. In order to make
direct broadcasting possible for individuals, the 14-hour program is also sent
via the new SATCOM C-4, a high power satellite, which only requires a
a dish size of between 1 metre and 1.50 metres in the traditional C-Band.
Parts of the program, that is sent in German, English and Spanish, is able to
be viewed via domestic television stations and cable networks. This was already
the case with PBS stations or ME/U with "Sports Report" and other programs. In
the meantime, there is a definite agreement with the MindExtension University
- The Education Network (ME/U). The station is taking over the German and
English Jourmal (Daily News) as well as another three and a half hours of
DW television programs. There are many promising  talks in progress with other
partners in the USA, Canada and Latin America.
Deutsche Welle has also been broadcasting to Africa, Asia and Australia since
the 28th of September 1992 for two hours a day via two INTELSAT satellites, in
order to make German television accessible there, with the help of local
television stations.

A  FREE monthly program guide of Deutsche Welle TV can be recieved by
writing to this address:

Deutsche Welle
Postfach 10 04 44
"W"-5000 Koeln 1

Germany

If you have any questions about the program, or technical questions write
to the same address or call the Washington office of Deutsche Welle:
(202) 393 7427

Andreas Golinski (AXGOLINSKI@ualr.edu)
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: cable tv
Date: 25 Dec 92 05:13:32 GMT
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In article <1992Dec24.163939.5592@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> robe@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (robert.g.egan) writes:
<I was speaking to a friend of mine yesterday and we got on the subject 
<of video. He says that his cable company has finally gotten its act
<together and he's now getting very good picture quality on almost all
<of his channels. He said that his letters and complaining must have 
<finally had an effect and that the cable bill must have gotten them to
<doing something positive. I asked if this has just happened over the 
<last few weeks and he replied yes. I then had to tell him that the cable
<company has done nothing but adjust their dishes to a new set of more
<powerful satellites. I could tell he was disappointed that he didn't have
<the impact on them that he thought. 

I seriously doubt that moving to the new birds had anything to do with his
signal quality improving.  If his S/N ratio got better, than they cleaned
up the amps feeding his line, and or made improvements at the head end.

Moving to the new birds would have removed any sparklies, which I doubt that
he had.

Ask him how his image improved and have him name channels.
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From: dingram@dims.demon.co.uk ("Darren P. Ingram")
Subject: Re: TVRO YEAR IN REVIEW 1992 (NORTH AMERICAN TVRO) 
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:07:28 +0000

In article <Pine.3.05y.9212311225.A29662-a100000@carson.u.washington.edu> jfwhite@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:

>                        Thanks for the super article!  I am absolutely
>astounded at all the develpments in TVRO that happened this past year ---

Yes, Robert has shamed me into doing a review of 1993 from Satnews <blush> I
don't have time for a review of 1992.

Printed versions of Satnews shortly available !!

Darren

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From: adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead)
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Subject: IRD Wanted
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:46:24 EST
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A friend of mine is looking for a used IRD.

He is looking for something along the lines of a Tracker IRD with remote
and on-screen graphics.

If you have one for-sale, e-mail me personally, as I do not always get
a chance to read the newsgroup.

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From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: "DirecTV":ANYBODY GOT ANY INFO?
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:50:08 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Hello satellite fans,

I'm considering taking the plunge soon, but before I do I'd like to find out
more about the "DircTV" system which is SUPPOSED to be on line in a year or so. 
Does anyone out there have info on this...especially as to how it will differ
from standard satellite service?   Many Thanks!

	Jay
From: harry@cs.tu-berlin.de (Harald Brinkmann)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: It's your BBC World Service - Phone In
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:22:55 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: griffin.cs.tu-berlin.de

Hello!

I'm just curious as to whether anyone heard this programme on the BBC
WS radio on Sunday and has any strong opinions about it. I can tell
you, I do, but I'll wait for what others have to say...

 Harald
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:29:31 MEZ
From:         "Wolfgang R. Schulz" <wrs@MCSHH.HANSE.DE>
Subject:      Re: CNN Germany
              92 1:05 pm

Colum Mylod writes:
>
> by a Spanish company, service begins 1 Jan 1993. Isn't n-tv rumoured
> for the 1C, launch April 1993.
>
That was indeed so, until last week CNN announced that they are holding
a reservation for a transponder on 1B still for their German output.
That would be n-tv now, so they said it will "show up on ASTRA in only
a few days". That certainly could not be 1C. Well, we'll see. Certainly
the SES would not keep the transponderlist forever on one channel, if they
could rent it...
Wolfgang


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From: bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
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Subject: Re: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Date: 2 Jan 1993 07:27:16 GMT
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brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>skingsle@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart A Kingsley) writes:
><While I am there, I am going to see if I can get a tour of the Paramount
><Star Trek sets.
>
>Forget it.  You will not be able to get on either the TNG or DS9 sets...period.

You don't be quite so melodramatic.

I walked right onto the set, of course they had just ended
that season's production for the year so it was no biggie.
It helped that I had friends at Paramount, but they
weren't Berman, et al.

The neatest part was the burned up Klingon bridge console
sitting there. It was too big to tuck under my arm, though.

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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 25 Dec 1992 13:00:50 MST
From: <AUPCK@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Satellite info please

Hello:
   I'm new to satellite and want to know more about it. I read most of the
messages but the technical terms confuse me. Where can I find a basic magazine
or book that will give me a good introduction. I will be moving to New Zealand
in the next couple month and interest buying a small satellite with me so I
can still watch the US news and programs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.                Philip
    Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!
From: michalj@fuw.edu.pl (Michal Jankowski)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: new transmissions from Poland
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:37:38 GMT
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.

There will be another transmission by Polish State TV from Warsaw.
24 Dec 16:00 - 24:00
25 Dec 09:00 - 02:45
Eutelsat II-F3 16E
11.080 GHz
Audio 6.65 MHz
Radio 7.20 MHz

Regular broadcasting is scheduled to begin in April.

  Merry Christmas
    Michal
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:30:41 +1100
From:         johnh@CS.MU.OZ.AU
Subject:      Re: Failure of Aussat B2 Satellite!

Hi.

        Just heard that the recent launch of Aussat B2 was unsuccessful
        due to the satellite (HS601 I think) failing to communicate
        with ground control.



John Horvath. [VK3DWT]
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