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Subject: Re: IRC Chat scheduled - January 3, 1993 at 4 pm ET 
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:16:18 +0000

In article <14qrl_f@lynx.unm.edu> roberts@triton.unm.edu writes:

>
>I finally get to announce this early!  ;)

Tell me about it! I will try to be there.

Darren

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From: clark@angelo.amd.com (Brad D. Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Christmas Music Programmes (audio)
Summary: Looking for suggestions for Xmas day music radio....
Keywords: music programming info audio
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:42:21 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

I know, the dist id world, but I couldn't remember how to do USA/CAN only.

Does anybody have any ideas about Xmas music programs for background
music for Xmas day? Last year I ran up CBC-stereo, and it was quite a hit
with the local neighborhood (nobody was playing decent Christmas music
on the radio... and I had my Ramsey up on 88.1 that day w/the programme).

I was thinking about doing either DW or BBC from C4, because they're
both slamming in here with such a great signal! But, I don't knw if they're
going to do any Christmas music specials timed for Xmas Eve thru late
Xmas day (the dish goes to G6/20 for cricket at 1900 :->).

Any suggestions from the net, both NA/EUR?

Brad  (eMail by the 24th and I'll post a summary)

clark@brahms.amd.com
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: dingram@dims.demon.co.uk ("Darren P. Ingram")
Subject: Re: European Satellite List SBC.EXE, Info about availabi 
Distribution: world
Organization: Darren Ingram Media Services
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:42:34 +0000

In article <m0n6nnx-00012xC@mcshh.Hanse.DE> wrs@MCSHH.HANSE.DE writes:

Wolfang. Always keep me advised of anything interesting huh!

Darren/satnews
(and of course Data Broadcasting News and TELE-satellite columnist:-))

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From: mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam)
Subject: Re: PAY PER VIEW (WAS RE: SPI
Reply-To: mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam)
Organization: Shorter Software Solutions
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:43:04 GMT

>>>>> "jerry" == Jerry Neal <neal@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:

jerry> terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter)  writes:

>I'm pretty sure Request TV is doing to open up to the satellite dish
>owners soon.  Reason, I friend of mine in the states, just sent me a
>Request 1 TV Guide for the rest of December, He got it from a cable
>company.  And that company company in his area, would not let it out,
>until now.

jerry> When Request TV 1 and 2 moved over to C4, they had a flag on the
jerry> screen that said they were now available through Satellite Cinema,
jerry> along with a phone number to call for authorization.  Apparently
jerry> they are not available through video PAL yet.

I believe that Request 2 has announced they are going to digital
transmission (four channels, compressed) beginning in July, 1993.  That
would make them unavailable again (until digital decoders become available
to consumers, at least).
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"You ducks are really trying my patience...but you're SOOO cute. --Apu 9F01
From: phil@phunt.MV.COM (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: PAY PER VIEW (WAS RE: SPI
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:42:03 EST
Organization: Howtek, Inc.
Reply-To: phil@phunt.MV.COM
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v2


In article <MBN.92Dec22084304@greyskul.hf.intel.com> (rec.video.satellite), mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam) writes:
] >>>>> "jerry" == Jerry Neal <neal@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
] 
] 
] jerry> When Request TV 1 and 2 moved over to C4, they had a flag on the
] jerry> screen that said they were now available through Satellite Cinema,
] jerry> along with a phone number to call for authorization.  Apparently
] jerry> they are not available through video PAL yet.
] 
] I believe that Request 2 has announced they are going to digital
] transmission (four channels, compressed) beginning in July, 1993.  That
] would make them unavailable again (until digital decoders become available
] to consumers, at least).
] --

No,  Request is ADDING 4 channels compressed.   Request 1 & 2 will remain
normal video.  They will then have 6 channels!



Phil

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Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: Re: Trucker TV to scramble?
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:59:43 GMT

roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.231233.9900@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello) writes:
>>
>>I ask because my local Food Lion has installed the Checkout Channel

>>pre-prepared products).  What's the deal with the Checkout Channel?  I
>>can't imagine the store paying for the service; to me it looks just like
>>the little ad spaces on the shopping carts, or the ads on the aisle
>>signs, or the ads on the lights showing the number of the checkout lane.
>>
>>So what about these services?  Who pays?

>My dish installer friend recently sent in a proposal to install
>the Checkout Channel in local grocery stores.  The way he explained
>it to me:  Turner provides the dishes and pays experienced dish
>installers to install the systems in grocery stores.  The service
>is supported by commercial advertisers [my comment:  you know those
>people whose ads appear every 10 secs!  ;)  ]

>What a good deal if you can find a grocery store that wants it!

So... what makes a grocery store want it?  Isn't every available square
inch of a supermarket already covered in ads!?
-- 
                   Jay Novello                 jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
                         Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:25:08 -0500
From:         Monty Solomon <monty@PROPONENT.COM>
Subject:      Komedy U

Komedy U will air from 0900-1115 ET G6/8 today
From: bhmd1464@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Wanted:VCII equipped receiver
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:00:30 -0600
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University


I am piecing together a satellite system and I need to find a used
receiver equipped with a VCII+.  Does anyone out there have one for
sale?  Or, can anyone tell me where I can order a new receiver from
and avoid paying the high prices that local dealers charge.

Brian Acosta
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:12:53 EST
From:         Bill Jones <wejones@CBDA7.APGEA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: I Claim the record -(now, where is it cold?)

>
> >  Gary hasn't said much about how the winter is going at the end of
> >  the world (at least here on the net).  It's being halecious here
> >  in Az - temps in the single digits every night, and I've even seen
> >  it down to -10 already.  I can't IMAGINE what it's going to be like
> >  in February and March.  Probably would be nice at the bottom of
> >  the Grand Canyon, though.
> >
>
>
> Well it has been TREMENDOUSLY cold here...  This has made for WONDERFUL
> reception.  I am, at this moment listening to PERFECT audio on C1 (Ch 2, for
>........
> Actually it was the coldest summer on record, this past...  Temps around
>
If I moved there it would warm up.  I hate hot summers, and have been looking
for a place to move that has cool summers, so last may we went property
hunting in Maine/New Hampshire, and based on Gary's recommendations I went
up past Marquette in early October.  We ran into high 90's temperatures
in the northeast, and needed an air conditioner in Marquette for the high
80's temps in October.  I was starting to think that they use a different
temperature scale up there, but decided that wherever I go it will be hot.


  Just to keep part of this post related to sats, does anyone know of
any TDM digital signals up there on SCPC?  I think the hidden signals
book says that there used to be some, but I wasn't sure if they were
still there.  I just got my multimode data box (pk232) upgraded to
do some new thngs which includes TDM, and was wondering if there was
anything to monitor on sat in this mode.
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: gilmore@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kevin Gilmore)
Subject: Satellite City a rip off
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:59:52 GMT

The latest sattelite city story. I saw their add and bought a used
descrambler case for 89.00. Even though the add was running right as i
was calling, they insisted that it was 109.00. I said that the add was
on right now, i did not care whether it was THEIR error or not, thats 
what they were advertising. So I get the thing (it works fine), but they
charged 20.00 for shipping. When i called them about this they said that
shipping and insurance was EXPENSIVE. Excuse me but B*. Called a friend
who works in a computer store and does a lot of mail order. Shipping for
14 lbs UPS ground from Edison NJ to Chicago is 4.98 + .35 per 100 dollars
insurance over the first 100 dollars. Looks like 4.98 to me not $20.00.
And it did not come from sat. city it came from K I Saturn Inc. And the
only way I knew that was the receit for the credit card. No where on the
invoice does it say From Whom. I desperately hope that i never have to
buy anything from these jerks again... AND YOU SHOULD NOT EITHER!!!!!
	....kg....

Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: wizz@bnr.ca (Boris Volk)
Subject: Re: C3/C4 Bleedover
Reply-To: wizz@bnr.ca (Boris Volk)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 14:02:48 GMT

 Alan,
       Your problem is probably that your feed is not in the exact center of
the dish. When the feed is offset from the prime focal point, the side effects
are reduced gain and decreased sidelobe rejection. I have noticed this on my
father's system which is identical to my own, with the exception that I 
installed guy-wires on my system. His system does have a slight bleed-over
problem where mine does not. 

 Here's the gain patern for a properly adjusted dish 

                                 *
                                * *
                                * *
                               *   *
                               *   *
                               *   *
                              *     *
                              *     *
                              *     *
                         *    *     *    *
                        * *   *     *   * *
                       *   ***       ***   ***

                            -2   0   +2


and for a mal-adjusted dish:

                                 *
                                * *
                                * *
                               *   *
                               *   *
                              *     *
                              *     *
                             *       *
                             *       *
                         * * *       * * *
                        *   *         *   *
                       *                   *

                            -2   0   +2

 Note that the gain at +/- 2 degrees is much higher in the second patern.
It is this increased "beamwidth" that is causing your troubles.

Boris Volk
Nepean Ont.

Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Subject: inmarsat info wanted
Followup-To: rec.radio.shortwave
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:38:27 GMT

I am looking for  some Inmarsat information:

Specifically I am interested in names and locations of the Inmarsat satellites
visible from the west coast of the US. I am alo interested in whether anyone
knows if there are L band beacons on them and if so the frequencies these
beacons may be found.

-- 
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(415) 903-3832 wk                                         (408) 253 4541 fax
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
From: mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam)
Subject: Re: SPICE
Reply-To: mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam)
Organization: Shorter Software Solutions
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:23:42 GMT

>>>>> "terry" == Terry Walter <terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:

terry> Can you believe this stuff that TVN is doing.  we all know they are
terry> losing money, and well so is CVS and Spice, well, CVS around 2-3 months
terry> ago, signed on TVN as theatre 9, t3-09, well, take a look at t3-20, you
terry> got it, theatre 10, is now SPICE.  Oh my god!

As I posted some time ago, TVN and CVS have combined marketing effort.
TVN will be available for cable systems PPV starting in January
(previously, they had only been marketed to the TVRO market).  In
exchange, some of the TVN channels are going to be taken over by CVS (I
don't recall now which ones, for example, I'm not sure about Action PPV).

In addition, F4 is going away (being returned to Canada?), so all those
channels (primarily SportsChannels and PPV stuff) will be finding new
homes.  CVS has found its new home on T3 is all.
--
Mike Northam, Shorter Software Solutions, on contract to Intel Corp.
(h) (503) 324-1831 (intel office) (503) 696-4860 (shorter) (503) 357-1010
mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com
"You ducks are really trying my patience...but you're SOOO cute. --Apu 9F01
From: dans@rehab1.UUCP (Dan Schein)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Combat! (was: DVS Jan-March Schedule)
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:17:25 GMT
Reply-To: dans@rehab1.UUCP (Dan Schein)
Distribution: na
Organization: Reading Rehab Hospital, Reading PA

In article <1992Dec29.165550.21099@tin.monsanto.com> lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder) writes:
>
>Nostalgia does it three or four times a week. Last night during Combat! they

  All right! Another Combat fan..... My wifes getting a bit upset with me
  since I stay up each night to watch (its on at Midnight eastern). But I
  havent seen these since I was a kid! And quite honestly their just as
  good now as I remember.

  Opps... Guess this didn't have much to do with satellite systems did it?
  Ok heres the required satellite portion.

  While fooling with the fire comapnys dish (we subscribe to FETN) last
  week I found the following slate:

  SBS-4  TRANSPONDER
   Stereo 6.2 & 6.8
  ------------------
     804-330-9786
       WRIC-TV
   VA State Lottery
       Uplink

  -Dan
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  Reading, PA 19607                   o/ \o

  rehab1!dans@cbmvax.commodore.com -OR- {uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!rehab1!dans
From: ggranger@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Greg Granger)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: SatNews ... where are they?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 08:28:35 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

What happened to SatNews?  Have they stopped publishing?  The last copy I 
got over R.V.S was #096.  If anybody has #97 or more, please send me 
e-mail to arrange getting them again.

========================================================================
| Gregeory C. Granger  (GGranger@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca)  |  "All these  |
| 5516-190A Street  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6M-2L3   | memories will|
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From: gilmore@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kevin Gilmore)
Subject: PTEN?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:52:53 GMT

Can anyone tell me what PTEN is ?
when does it start?
any stations running it (especially chicago area)?
Whether I can buy it from Netlink or the like?

So far all i have is WWOR/New York

Am I a sci-fi junkie----   You bet!
From: adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Pay Per View
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:13:32 EST
News-Software: FSUUCP 1.2 R4
X-Mailer: DigiQR 5.38b
Reply-To: adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead)
Distribution: world
Organization: The All Ter Nah Tive Un Der Groend

In a preivous article, Terry Walter said something to the effect of "Viewer's
Choice is making money now that they are in Canada".  This is, atleast in
part, untrue.

The PPV service we have in Canada is know as VCC or "Viewer's Choice Canada"
and is owned by Astral Communications.  Astral Communications owns First
Choice (E2-4) and Astral Films, and is no way affiliated with Viewer's
Choice Pay Per View in the United States.

So whether either of them are making money are not isn't known.

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From: robe@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (robert.g.egan)
Subject: cable tv
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:39:39 GMT

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.
From: Craig.Orr@f263.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Craig Orr)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Satellite info please
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:47:03

 > From: <AUPCK@ASUACAD.BITNET>
 > Organization: Arizona State University

 > Hello:
 >    I'm new to satellite and want to know more about
Edit
 > 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.

Hi from Australia! As I am also new to this game I shall give you some little
hints about this region in non-technical terms. I might have the Intelsat
numbers a little wrong, sorry if they are, but you will get the drift (No pun
intended!) anyway!

Ummm! Why New Zealand? From someone in that region you will loose a little bit
of programming over what you would get in the USA! We can only see the
following _notable_ satellites in ITU Region 3

  Intelsat V-F3 (C-Band)
     14 Channels, RFO, C-Span, ABC and CNN are the only constant
     ones One B-Mac encoded signal (AFRTS) the rest are in the clear
     RFO is Secam, US Feeds are NTSC, except for C-Span
     which is PAL (and probably the most broring thing I
     have ever seen.

     Of course We _NEVER_ watch CNN 'cause it's not legal to
     do so without paying a subscription (even if it's in
     the clear!)
  Intelsat V-F2 (C-Band)
     Oops, think thats run out of fuel!
  Gorizont (C-Band)
     Nice, Very powerful, 2 Channels, One in Russian
     and one in Chinese
  Palapa (C-Band)
     Never actually bothered trying to find this one
     Indonesian
  Aussat A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1  (All Ku)
     Currently Australian Domestic News Feeds, We are
     supposed to be getting Pay-TV sometime!

     Unfortunately B-2 seem to have gone missing!
     Umm if any of you happen to see a strange very
     powerful signal somewhere off the ecliptic can you
     let us know 8-)

Thats it! Reading this echo, and recently visiting Europe has made me very
jeolous. The only satellite we have that IMHO is worth watching is Intelsat V-
F3, even that is dated and almost out of fuel. I need to adjust the dish twice
daily to even keep up with it.

If you are moving to NZ you might pick up one or two more, being further to the
east of here, but they will be weak 'cause they are pointed at the US not our
region.

BTW in NZ you will need a 3.8Metre or bigger C-Band Dish to pick that one up!

Craig Orr

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