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From: dgfritz@hubert.rodan.syr.EDU (Doug Fritz)
Subject: Please send the FAQ, local copy has expired
Organization: /puma/users/dgfritz/.organization
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 20:34:11 EST

Hello,

Please send or repost a copy of the faq. The local copy has expired. I
saw in the news.answers that the faq is posted monthly, but I need to
see it before 12/20 if possible.

Thanks,
Doug
dgfritz@cat.syr.edu

Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: gws@n8emr.cmhnet.org (Gary Sanders)
Subject: vc2 trade
Organization: HAM BBS, 614-895-2553 (1200/2400/v.32/pep)
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 22:42:12 GMT

I picked up another used satellite systems today.. With it was 
an old VC2 032 board. It has not been pirated, but has been worked on 
by uniden. (i.e. orginal channel master sticker has been removed).
The unit was working when last used, but that has been 6 to 9 months ago.
I assume the battery has died and it lost the key since the IRD works
fine with my current 2+ board.

Is anyone still offering any tradeins on old VC2 boards to the 2+ or RS
boards?
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HAM BBS 614-895-2553 (1200/2400/V.32/PEP) Voice: 614-895-2552 (eves/weekends)
From: sbirdwell@pbs.org
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: re:t301 problems
Date: 11 Dec 92 09:09:41 EST
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA

A point of clarity on Gary Hughes comment PBS being moved to Spacenet 4
by AT&T. The move of PBS from Spcenet 1 to Spacenet 4 did not have
anything to do with the end of life scenario Telstar 301. The PBS move
was because of a very compicated contract issue. BTW PBS is expected to 
move to a new home on AT&T Telstar 401 by January 1994.

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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:13:57 EST
From:         Gary Bourgois <flash@LOPEZ.MARQUETTE.MI.US>
Subject:      Re: TVN 10 Changing ?

>Is TVN going to offer an "adult" theater now ?


Yep.  It is SPICE.  Plus they have CVS.  Maybe they will soon offer HOME
SHOPPING NETWORK on a PPV basis.

Anything to pay the bills



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From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
Subject: IRC chat scheduled for Dec 20
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 05:22:11 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Even though this may not be considered a formal IRC chat get-together,
I am scheduling a chat session on Dec 20 (sunday) at 3 pm ET.  With
this time, I hope to meet times for most possible TVRO enthusiasts
who want to chat.

I will be there in a channel called #SATTV at 3 pm ET.  If no-one
shows up in 15 minutes after 3 pm ET, I will just leave the IRC
chat program.

I may capture the chat and make it accessable to those who were not
able to join in on the fun.    

Robert
roberts@triton.unm.edu

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From: frode@dxcern.cern.ch (Frode Weierud)
Subject: Russian TV transmissions
Keywords: Satellite TV, Russian, Gorizont
Reply-To: frode@dxcern.cern.ch
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:00:50 GMT

Does anybody receive TV transmissions from any of the Russian
satellites?  If so, which transmissions can be received, where
and with what kind of equipment?  Is it possible to buy 
equipment off shelf for receiving these transmission or is
it necessary to build or adapt existing equipment?  Please
give me your experiences and if possible reply by e-mail.
Many thanks.

Regards,
	Frode

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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:58:32 EST
From:         Jason Lin <71043.1570@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject:      KGAY

Someone asked about what happened to KGAY.

While there's no official word as to what happened, apparently the uplinkers
for KGAY accidentally put GENESIS radio network on the frequency which KGAY is
supposed to be on (G5-6, 6.3/6.48) during the day time hours of today
(Sunday).

Now I just checked again, that familiar electronic dance music/alternative
sound is back on the air.  In the meantime, one can find a even better
sounding feed on G6, 7.5 Normal Band.

KGAY just moved into a new studio without telephone connection (that's why no
one answers the "request line").  According to the on- air DJ, they expect to
be back to the original studio with the toll- free telephone connection "in a
few days."  The station is also broadcasting in mono for a couple days until
technical problems can be solved.

Judging by the sound quality on the G6 transponder, if the stereo is back on,
KGAY would be one of my favorite music radio stations (except I wouldn't be
able to hear while driving the car).
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
Subject: KY-TV on ARTE
Organization: eng
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:14:45 GMT

On ARTE there's the comedy series KY-TV at 20:00-20:30 CET mo-fri.
It's a parody on SKY-TV, even the logos come very close. It's a
BBC production made in 1990.

Jurgen


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From: oester@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Bob Oesterlin)
Subject: Digital Cable Radio
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:01:58 GMT
Reply-To: oester@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester Mn

The local cable system lets you buy boxes to decode this for about $100. Any
way to hook this up to the baseband output and get it to work? (Service on
G3/5)

Bob

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Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: edg@ecs.comm.mot.com (Ed Gonzalez)
Subject: GI closes upgrade program
Organization: trunking_terms
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:08:59 GMT

Hello there!

 I called GI (San Diego) yesterday and asked to talk to a program Auditor,
for the VC upgrade.  I got connected and the recording says that the upgrade
program has been completed, NO EXCEPTIONS ARE BEING MADE.  If you have any
questions to call the CUC/DBS center 1800-457-8277.   The switchboard 
operator at GI even got kinda nasty the 2nd time I called asking to speak
to a person not a machine.  It does not seem to do any good to leave any
messages to the program auditor as that person will not return the call.

There you have it folks!! 

Merry Christmas from your friends at GI.  

(When it comes to getting more BULL#@! for your buck, 
    go with a pro, go with GI)




Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: Owen Rubin <rubin@apple.com>
Subject: Re: HBO Schedule source
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:17:01 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <9212170030.AA27566@lopez.marquette.MI.US> Gary Bourgois,
flash@LOPEZ.MARQUETTE.MI.US writes:
>I would love to have the HBO, CINNEMAX, SHOWTIME, TMC and ENCORE
schedules.
>
>Or a source of "Cable guide"  Yes I will pay if someone can tell me
where to
>send the money...
>
Asking the obvious: Have you tried Satellite TV Weekly? Or ONSat?

I like the first better, and I believe they have an issue for each time
zone.
If all you want is GRID listings, then ONSat good.

What we really need is a progeam that will extract the satellite delivered
guide (SuperGuide?) for PCs and Macs. I would gladly pay the monthly price
for SuperGuide if I did not have to buy their box. I already have too many
computers in my house that do similar functions.

-Owen Rubin-
rubin@apple.com
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From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
Subject: IRC TVRO chat -- info and I need input...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 03:24:05 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


The first Internet IRC chat occurred the other day (Sun Dec 13).  During
the two and a quarter hours of chatting, about 10-15 people drifted
in and out and some interesting conversations happened.

The people who joined me for IRC were from the US, Germany, and Finland
making for a great potpourri of satellite tv talk.  We chatted about
international TVRO (if you are in the United States, we considered
Germany/Finland INTL, and they considered North American TVRO as INTL),
digital video compression and other odds and ends -- especially info
I've withheld posting to the Internet as we speak -- I'll get it
posted when I feel the time is right.

Now the problem.  Some of the IRC chat members thought the time
was too early or too late.  The chat occurred at 11 am ET.  I
believe the chat was a success and would like to make it a regular
occurrance.  I am soliciting input as to what time and day to have
it.  I think a weekend day would be great, but I need to try to
factor in all possible users (those in America and those in Europe).
If you want to give me input, I would appreciate hearing from you.  I'll
take the input and try to come up with the best time to have IRC chat.

BTW, I am still investigating how to use IRC and Telnet to get IRC 
capabilities on systems where IRC doesn't exist.  

Robert

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From: terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter) 
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: SUN DECODER?  VCII CLONE?
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:48:00 GMT
Reply-To: terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

well, from what a gathered, the DECTEC, the company that made the VCII
CLONE called SUNboards, was shutdown for a period of time, while GI
tried to crack their system and well, the conclusion was that dectec's
boards, were fast, better picture, and sound, and the authorization
numbers were encrypted with his own calculations, so no one could find
them.  GI did not return some of their equipment for a long time, until
the CANADIAN JUDGE ordered them to, and they did finally.

DECTEC is a great company in the way, they made a decoder that will be
compatible (with daughter-boards) so you could subscribe to VCII
channels and VCII PLUS, BMAC and OAK.

All the channels up there are not running off of the VCII PLUS data
stream, they are running off of the cable box data stream, and those
companies like HBO, TVN, will only authorize VCII PLUS boards, if they
wanted to they could authorize my VCII board that I have lying around as
a door stop.
                                                                           
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:53:20 PST
From:         Vijay Vaidyanathan <zycad!yoda!vijay@SUN.COM>
Subject:      Stuff on Satellite you may have missed

I've been meaning to do this for a bit, but work's been busy and I
had huge mail problems (still do, I think, so dont blame me if I
havent replied to your mail, try again!).

Here are a couple things that I have seen on the birds and others
may be interested in.

1. Cricket G6/20, nights off and on, when the WI team is involved,
nuff said about this!

2. On the K2 NBCE transponder (I dont have the # since mine is all
reprogrammed!), they usually have some sort of advance feed
(usually for the press or for other affiliates) of the next big
NBC TV movie. This comes on after regular Primetime (i.e. at 11PM
PDT on the Eastern Feed). I have seen advance feeds of several NBC
movies, programs directed at affiliates telling them about whats
new this and the next season etc etc.

3. On the Eastern most of the two Aniks (the one with MuchMusic on
xponder 6), there is a long feed of the BBC WSTV News. I am not
sure when this begins, but I have seen it on at 12:45 to 1:00 AM
PDT, and it seems to come on a little after the feed of the BBC
breakfast news.

4. VisNews feeds (that used to be on W5, remember that?) from Hong
Kong and Tokyo seem to be on regularly (atleast on weekdays) at
11:30 pm PDT.

I'll post some more stuff later if I think of any I missed.

- Vijay
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From: Alan.Crowder@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Sky Sports
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:57:46 GMT
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3



Just to let you Sky Sports viewers know


I won one of five pairs of Nordica top of the range ski boots on offer
on Sky Sports saturday competition run by Sue Barker and Paul Dempsey.


Yabbadabbadooo

Alan
From: ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: TCI announces 500 channels [resolution]
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 13 Dec 92 05:33:50 GMT

Original to: Cfogg@Ole.Cdac.Com
  cfogg@ole.cdac.com (Chad Fogg), wrote:


 c> A typical MPEG-II bitstream which includes 5.1 independent channels of
 c> compressed audio, 4 Mb/sec of video, and 1.5 Mb/sec of forward error
 c> correction (as found on CDs), plus system code overhead, would tally
 c> around 6Mb/sec.   Expect an average of 3 channels per 6 MHz.   500
 c> channels would require around 1 GHz of total bandwidth.  Analog NTSC
 c> services would remain below 500 MHz while digital channels occupy the
 c> upper spectrum thanks to the lower noise threshold (20dB vs. 45 dB).

 This is all very well, but how much will it cost? In Australia we
 should be getting Pay Satellite-TV  in a year or two, and it looks like
 digital compressed video will be used. However, if the system is to
 expensive then the thing will be a dead duck. Something like this
 happened when satellite TV was first introduced in the 80's using the
 B-MAC system. All gee-whiz hi tech stuff that costed about $6000 to
 install! still cost about $2500.

 ta
 Ralph

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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:10:33 CST
From:         Charles Norris <CNORRIS@UA1VM.BITNET>
Subject:      used equip

hello, still looking and scrounging to by used satellite equip
preferably lnb technology, all equip considered..thx
my email is cnorris@ua1vm.ua.edu....bitnet address is cnorris@ua1vm.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: BBC shortwave meta-radio programs upcoming
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:36:36 GMT

This is from Glenn Hauser's _DX Listening Digest_:

Marking the 60th anniversary of BBC WS:  "Out of the Air", Sundays 1401
GMT, Mons 0630 and 1001....December 13/14:  What's in Store for WS and
SW...  December 20/21, It's Your World Service: phone-in to Managing
Director John Tusa at the same times, but first airing, LIVE, lasts an
hour.

Now's everybody's chance to find out exactly WHEN BBC World Service TV
will be available in the domestic arc (and at what price!)...

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                         Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: Hispasat 1A Seen in North Carolina
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:32:49 GMT

There's a huge Ku signal from Hispasat 1A right now (Saturday 12/19/92,
1430 EST) at 31 degrees west; my Drake is seeing it on Channel 25, which
I figure to be about 12.083 GHz downlink frequencey.  Audio is at 6.60
MHz. 

The programming is an NTSC signal from TVE in Spain.  It is the same
programming as is being shown on Intelsat 603 @ 27.5 degrees West on
channel 2.  I was so excitied I didn't check polarity, but whatever it
was, was right.  This is a strong signal, just as strong as the D2-MAC
signal on Intelsat K.

I'm taping something right now and can't check audio subcarriers, but
I'll post that info ASAP.  

Jay
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From: gilmore@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kevin Gilmore)
Subject: DS9 promokit rerun??
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:36:53 GMT


Does anyone know if the ds9 promo kit will be run again. It
was not on wed, and thurs i had a power hit that turned the
vcr off after about 25 minutes.

thanks please post or mail to gilmore at casbah.acns.nwu.edu

Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
Subject: Radio 538 started on ASTRA, Electrique FM, BFBS-2
Organization: eng
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:45:16 GMT

Saturday at 18:00 CET, the Dutch station Radio 538 started, it replaced HIT-RADIO
on the same frequencies. (On the back of Sky-1).
Radio 538 is actually Radio Veronica the ex-pirate station. One of their
MW frequencies was infact 538 metres. Lex Harding one of the driving forces behind it
said in a speech that they got the license last Tuesday from the Dutch government.
The Veronica Omroep (VOO) that is part of the public radio didn't want to become 
involved in private radio, so they started Radio 538.
On sunday afternoon there's the American Top 40, the original (undubbed) version
of the famous syndicated US radio show.

I don't like AT40, I was glad to avoid the AFN-version at sunday afternoon, and 
now this ...?

Electrique FM, the french radio of the BBC apparently has ceased to exist.
Since Dec 1st it's silent. According to Media Network, the station was 
broacasting in Paris. The French government forced them off the air since
they were 'foreign' (even the program was in french all the time)

BFBS-2 has been moved to a lower subcarrier frequency. The original frequency
carries now a kind of German-stream by BBC. (News at the top of the hour
plus relay of the German shortwave service plus music at all other times)

Jurgen


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From: au021@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Roland Behunin)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Hockey schedule (sort of)
Date: 19 Dec 1992 01:58:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I guess there is interest in this on this group?
I was only posting it to r.s.h, but somebody reposted it here 
last month.

A word of caution, there has been an increasing use of fiber optic
cable for backhauls, so all the games listed may
not be on the birds.  Also if anybody finds games not listed, let me know 
where and when you found them.

( I am trying to keep a current list of most likely places for
backhauls).

roland

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From: oester@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Bob Oesterlin)
Subject: Signal strength vs picture quality
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:05:05 GMT
Reply-To: oester@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester Mn

I have a Drake 1524. I notice that on some satellites (like S4 6/8/10, the PBS
feeds) have a relativly low signal value (170's on my receiver) are clear and
sparkle free. On other satellites (like T1 or G3) I get a higher signal level
(like the high 170's or low 180's) but get sparklies in the reds and deep blues.

Why is this? I would have thought a higher value vould give me a better picture!

Bob

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From: hew@Turing.ORG (Harold E. Wheaton (N6WUX))
Subject: Re: some observations and notes
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:34:08 GMT

In article <hy-r14q@lynx.unm.edu> roberts@triton.unm.edu
 (Robert Smathers) writes:

>South Scanner Satellite Services Chart should come out shortly -- after
>I finish my FINALS.  I am looking at Sunday or Monday to get everything
>from the last month and a half together and get the chart edited.  

Sounds good.  I'll definitely be interested in the one that lists
Galaxy 7 Ku services.  Has anyone listened to Ku FM^2 or Ku SCPC
services?  I may want to get into that if I hear of good stuff on there.
(For now, I want to attempt a crude stereo decoder; not sure how hard/easy
it will be without ceramic filters.)

>the FOX CATV feed on G3/2 appears to be moving to C1/19.  I caught
>that feed this afternoon on C1 and the signal was super for a C1 
>transponder!  Things are looking good...the ASCs appear to be 
>in the right place on C1/19, so I am guessing that means FOX CATV
>is ready to move over in a few weeks.

Fox needs to move to Ku-band.  (But that's just greedy me; I only have
Ku-band.)

>Still no observation of anything other than SCPC on Galaxy 7 since I saw
>the color bars about a week ago yesterday.  SBS4 is still working and
>slates there are still saying SBS4.  I read that SBS4 is going to move
>to 85 degrees west and serve out its life when Galaxy 7 Ku service
>begins.  

Where'd you read that?  My only sources of current info is Broadcasting
magazine and Usenet.

SBS 4 moving to 85?  Isn't Satcom K1 there?  I'd be AMAZED if K1 gets
moved.  Also, Robert told the people on the IRC meeting that Galaxy 7
(Ku) service will probably begin on Jan 16th or so.

Speaking of IRC, thanks for the IRC meeting, Robert.  Hope we can do that
again sometime.
					-Harold
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