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From: bengt@fires1.uucp (Bengt A. Palsson)
Subject: Cartoon Channel slate on G1-8
Followup-To: bpalsson@smail.srl.ford.com
Organization: Svenska Popfabriken AB, USA div.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:59:03 GMT

There's been a slate for the "future home of the Cartoon Channel" on G1-8
for the past couple of days. Also there are two 800 numbers, presumably
for subscribing to it when it launches.


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From: tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke)
Subject: KU Band Help
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:38:25 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

I'm brand new to KU band. I've had my dish and C band received since
January and all worked well. I purchased and had installed a KU band
feedhorn so that I could watch many of the NFL feeds during football
season.
 
Here's my problem: My installed only installed K1 for me into my GI
receiver. He did explain that KU band is not standardized like C band,
i.e. each satellite doesn't have 24 transponders. I've looked into both 
Orbit and Satellite Week for some help without luck. I know the names
and locations of all KU band birds from the info in Orbit. However,
I don't know the format of each on and it's a royal pain having to
try all the combinations for each bird. Does anyone here have a list
of which format to use on each of the KU birds? There seems to be
4-6 different formats available to try. 
 
HELP!
From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re:      G1R
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:04:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <HOMESAT%92082322493182@VM1.NODAK.EDU>,         AMSEL-GS-1 <cg024@MONMOUTH-EMH3.ARMY.MIL> writes...
>Did the G1R launch happen or did NASA blow another Commercial Launch?
> 
>CPT Gary O'Neal, US Army Comm-Elec Command, Ft Monmouth, NJ

NASA is more or less out of the commercial launch business. The launch (which
was aborted when one of the Centaur RL-10 engines failed to start) was a
commercial launch conducted by General Dynamics using USAF launch facilities.

gary
From: lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org (Mr. Lyn R. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: questions on VCII & VCII+
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:17:19 GMT
Organization: Radio Amateur k5qwb

shsieh@aludra.usc.edu (Steven Hsieh) writes:

> 
>         A friend of mine just purchased a new receiver and is getting rid of 
>         old decoder.  I am thinking of getting it.  But I have some questions
> 
>         1) How can I find out if the decoder is VCII or VCII+?
>            The front panel looks like VCII, but he said that it is VCII+.
>            Someone told me that I can look at the serial number, is that true

Info I have says the serial number starts with 01 or 03 for VCII and 02 
or 04 for VCII+.


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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:47:00 EST
From:         Node of Despair <GRAHAM@VENUS.IUCF.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Please unsubscribe me!!!
X-To:         "HOMESAT" <HOMESAT@VM1.NoDak.EDU>

I have tried repeatedly, with no success to have myself removed from the
HOMESAT mailing list.

I have been trying from the same machine from which I originally subscribed,
so I don't think it's an alias problem.

However, listserv@ndsuvm1 thinks I am GRAHAM@IUCF.BITNET, which is true,
but that is not my normal email address.

It is:  graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu.

Can someone please help me unsubscribe from this list?

Thank you,
Jim Graham
graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
From: adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: U2 ZOO TV Tour
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:57:39 GMT
Reply-To: adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead)
Organization: The All Ter Nah Tive Un Der Groend
News-Software: FSUUCP 1.2 R4
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I was watching a local music show the other day and they had a feature about
the technology used in the U2 ZOO TV Tour stageshow.

Among the items were several video walls to display images from a variety
of sources such as off-air broadcasts, cable, concert cameras, and from
satellites.

In one clip, they were performing and the Home Shopping Club was on the
monitors, from satellite as the on-screen grpahics said "SAT: G3" and
so forth.

However, they made a coment that they also had uplink dishes for transmitting
to satellite.  Now, U2 said not to uplink the concert itself, but a chaos
of images from the same sources the video monitors used.  When speaking about
this they showed a colour bars slate with "ZOO TV" on it.
 
Has anybody come across this slate, or some of these 'chaotic' images in their
skyscanning?

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From: strike@steam.rome.ny.us (Strikemaster)
Subject: Orbitron Dishes and Horizon-to-Horizon
Organization: Iron Horse InfoSys
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 23:26:44 GMT
Keywords: Actuators, mounts, European

Question for the hard core sat-DX'ers out there.

Can the Orbitron C-10/SX-10 dish, with the factory polar mount, be adapted
to give full horizon-to-horizon coverage?  At the moment, with an 18"
stroke SuperJack actuator, I have the full sweep of the C-band birds from
Spacenet 2 to Satcom F1, but I'd like to see what's to the east of S2.

Quick eyeball engineering look at the mount tells me putting a 24" actuator
on will not do a whole lot of good, since the leverage just isn't there for
pulling the dish back west against a wind load.

Anyone out there manage to do this trick?

Quick "Hello, Birdwatcher!" to Gary Bourgois; I now have the group active
at this site.  Once the modem problems are killed off, I should be able to
act as a second Public Access site for the files now solely on Great White
North.  At the moment, only another Trailblazer can talk to this modem.

Technology is our friend.

SAY IT!


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From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: Re: VideoCipher II Extra Functions.
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:05:46 GMT

In article <D2150040.ckkb60@phunt.MV.COM> phil@phunt.MV.COM (Phil Hunt) writes:
> Yes, it is NOT due to the Superguide (I am the original poster).  Superguide
> shows a PAGE per program on a blue/and green screen.
> 
> This is on the black screen you get on an unsubscribed channel!

It is quite annoying that the VC II blacks out an unsubscribed channel.

Is there any easy way to disable this feature?

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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:24:47 EDT
From:         Bill Jones <wejones@CRDEC7.APGEA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Orbittrack 2.1.4...A bug?
X-To:         homesat@vm1.nodak.edu

>
> I finally got a copy of Orbittrack 2.1.4 for the Mac here at work.  This
> program
> reads the Nasa 2-line orbital statistics that Mr. Kelso posts regularly.
>
> It is a great program, does have some minor bugs, but I think I found a major
> one.  Anyone else see this?
>
> I read in the latest NASE stats.  I told Orbittrack to MAP Galaxy 1 and it
> shows it at 0 (Equator), 120 w.  I happen to know G1 is at 133 w, so I told
> it to MAP Spacenet 2.  It plotted it at 0, 117...Wierd.  I told it to plot
> all American sats and they all plotted withing 6 degrees of each other at
> 114w to 120 w!
>
> I then plotted some Soviet sats to make sure it works ok, and it correctly
> plotted the orbit of these non-geosynchronous satellites.
>
Strange.  I have never used Orbittrack.  Although I have access to a Mac
(belongs to my wife) I usually use traksat or sattrac on my PC.  I tried the
most recent element set on Traksat, and it correctly placed G1 at 132.92, and
K2 at 81.11 (I didn't try any others).  It is possible that you got a bad
set of two line elements.  I know of at least 2 or 3 times in the last year
that elements had errors in them.  Another possibility is that from what I
have read, there are at least two different types of calculations used for
satellites in different types of orbits, ie if Orbitreack tried using the
same methods on geosynchronous sats that it uses on low altitude sats, it
might have problems.  I know an earlier version of one of the sat tracking
programs I have used showed geosynchronous sats dissappearing when close to
the equator (I was tracking one with about a 5 degree inclination), but
the current versions I use seem to do a good job, although they do seem to
have a hard time with the GPS sats that are almost as far out as the
geosynchronous sats (ie probably in between two calculation methods).  You
might try your elements in another program.  I have seen Macsat on
Simtel20 and WUARCHIVE, but have never tried it.  Or you could switch to
a PC.

> My questions:
>
> 1)  Are all geosynch sats on the Equator?

Pretty close.  Some are in inclined orbits that drift north and south of
the equator in a skinny figure "8" motion.  You can read the inclination
off the 2 line elements.  It is the second number in line 2, ie:

SBS 2
1 12855U 81 96 A 9227.56..............................
2 12855   4.1157 68.9130..............................

In this example, 4.1157 degrees is the inclination.

> I set my location, but cannot for the life of me, figure out how to get the
> standard setup charts everyone sells or does.  (You know, the ones that show
> angle from the horizon, direction of the dish for each satellite!).
>
I don't know about your program, but the other programs give this.  I
would be surprised if yours didn't.
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From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Subject: Re: Galaxy 1R launch fails; satellite lost
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:02:36 GMT


Some comments and questions..

G1R was not going come online until G1 got closer to end of life (sometime in
93). If Galaxy 4 is up by then, my guess is that they'll move Galaxy 6 into the
slot that G1R would have used. G6 is after all their roving spare.

For those watching the launch, did the Centaur fail on it's first or second
firing?

gary
From: phil@phunt.MV.COM (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: need to split baseband!!!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:32:46 EST
Organization: Howtek, Inc.
Reply-To: phil@phunt.MV.COM
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

Hi,

Since I  have a Superguide unit now  (I will post a review in a few days about
it),  and I have 2 other decoders, I now have a need to split my baseband
again.

Believe it or not, before, when I just needed 2 used a Radio Shack Y-adapter
with no problems, but a 2nd Y-adapter does not work,  The items at the 2 and
3rd ends do not see the signal...I set it up like this:


                RS Y-adpt1
IRD BB Out --------o-----------Decoder #1
                   |
                   |    RS Y-adapt2
                   +-----------o---------Decoder #2
                               |
                               +---------SG SuperGuide

With the above setup, decoder #1 is fine, decoder #2 doesn't work, and the 
	SG Box gets data errors.  

I've tried replacing RS Y-adpt1 with a RS 'Baseband Video amplifier' and
Decoder #1 and #2 work fine, but the SG Box gets Data errors. 

Based upon my stuff above, I know I could probably exchange Decoder #1 with
SG Box but it is a kludge and probably not completely reliable, since we are
dealing with digital datastreams/etc.

Anyone know a better way to get it to work?

Phil
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From: strike@steam.rome.ny.us (Strikemaster)
Subject: Re: S.12/H.R.4850
Organization: Iron Horse InfoSys
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 16:26:29 GMT

bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler) writes:

>The thing which fried me the first time I ever saw cable
>networks like ESPN and TBS was that they are 'cable networks'
>ostensibly, yet they still run commercial advertisements.
>I don't know what the contractual agreements are, but
>I can assume that cable systems pay these networks
>for taking their signals. And I have to PAY to watch
>commercials? Are they kidding me??

Fry this in the pan as well.  The video music channels like MTV and VH-1?
Back in the past, they received those videos FREE from the record
companies.  I remember when MTV had something on the order of ten minute
"blackouts" because they had no material.

Still cost you $$$ to subscribe to it.  Now you have to swallow three
minute blocks of commercials as well as the "entertaining VeeJays".

Thank the deities for SuperAudio and "The New Age of Jazz".

>-- 

>bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)


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From: hoffman@cs.pitt.edu (Bob Hoffman)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: Status of CNN Airport/Checkout channels
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:15:53 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <t7ankdk@lynx.unm.edu>, roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers) writes:
|> I have heard that the Airport Channel is on S2(Ku)/24 but I haven't
|> been able to confirm it due to my tree situation.

It is there.

	---Bob.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:48:00 EST
From:         "Ed Bailey, Systems Group, X1-7560" <BAILEY@NIEHS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: REALLY need actuator info

>OK, you lot! I see you have been preoccupied with other news this
>weekend, so here it goes again:

    I'm sorry!  It won't happen again, I promise!  >sniff<

>Can anyone strongly recommend or disrecommend any make of actuator arm?

    I recently got a Thompson Saginaw 24 incher.  It's built like a brick,
    uh, you know, and comes with a nice accordian boot already attached.  I
    also added one of those "motor condoms" to keep the motor out of the
    rain, FWIW...

                                Ed

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(contracted to: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
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From: kebsch@neurotic.sni.de (Waldemar Kebsch)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: One LNB and Two Receivers?
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:19:00 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

In <9208251553@ltrnativ.UUCP> adammot@ltrnativ.UUCP (Adam Mottershead) writes:

>I asked this question earlier, but I posed it in a confusing way so I will
>rephrase it in the hopes I will get a response.

>How can I use two block receivers from a single LNB?  I realize that one
>receiver will have polarity control and the other will not, but what do I
>need to split the signal, keep the LNB powered, but not damage any
>equipment?

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I don't know how to do it in Ontario/Canada, because I don't know
the LNB's the people there usually have. However, that's the way
I am doing it at Home.

I have a dish and a LNB for the KU-Band. This LNB has two connectors,
one for the vertical and one for the horizontal polarized channels.
(Yes it is a "Double-LNB" :-)

This LNB is connected to a "Switch-Box" and this box is also connected
with the receivers.

And that is the cable plan:

   +-------+                  +--------+              +-------------+
   |       o---- vertical ----o        o--- line-1 ---o  Receiver-1 |
   |       |                  |        |              +-------------+
   |  LNB  |                  | Switch |
   |       |                  |  BOX   |              +-------------+
   |       o--- horizontal ---o        o--- line-2 ---o  Receiver-2 |
   +-------+                  +--------+              +-------------+

A receiver selects the input (vertical/horizontal) of the "Switch-Box"
with a different DC level (14/18V) via the coax cable. I know installations
up to 16 receivers. In this case the "Switch-Box" has 16 outputs. :-)

May be this helps  ..? (Sorry for my bad English :-)
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From: kmiller@mtechca.maintech.com (Dazed'n'Confused)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: GI2750 update roms,
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:55:14 PST
Organization: Volt Delta Resources

Does anyone know the procedure to order updated roms for the GI 2750?
Phone number, price???

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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From: rrw@TURING.CSE.NAU.EDU (Bob Wier)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: SKYSCANNER ALERT: Hurricane Andrew
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:21:16 GMT
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 I noted a couple of times that I could find a feed (mostly on T1)
 from one of the Miami stations, but it was SCRAMBLED (CBS network
 Leitech? or VC-I ? I don't know which looks like which).  I couldn't
 find an in - the - clear backhaul.

 I think it might potentially be a very strong club against networks
 scrambling since you could argue that if you were in rural Florida or
 Louisiana out of the range of the normal TV stations and dependent on
 satellite for news/information that scrambling these feeds is against
 the public interest and should not be permitted. (After all, CNN
 did a lot of in-the-clear broadcasting during the Gulf War).

 Also, it's very irritating to us news/weather junkies out here...

 :-)  :-)

--Bob Wier
 rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu
From: shsieh@aludra.usc.edu (Steven Hsieh)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: questions on VCII & VCII+
Date: 31 Aug 1992 17:03:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

        A friend of mine just purchased a new receiver and is getting rid of his
        old decoder.  I am thinking of getting it.  But I have some questions..

        1) How can I find out if the decoder is VCII or VCII+?
           The front panel looks like VCII, but he said that it is VCII+.
           Someone told me that I can look at the serial number, is that true?

        2) Do I need VCII+ or VCRS? module to subscribe to ESPN or any other
           super stations?

        3) If it is VCII how can I obtain a VCRS module? 

        Thanks in advance.
From: neal@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jerry Neal)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: Disguising satellite dishes
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:31:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.Btyu96.CqE
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

bregman@ds2.uh.cwru.edu (Dave Bregman) writes:


>I recently bought a house in a housing developement that has a deed restriction
>specifically prohibiting satellite dishes.
>The deed restriction does allow for
>an "antenna for the reception of television signals" which in some sense
>this is.


Althought covenents are pretty much binding in that if you agree to it you
are stuck with it, FCC rules specifically prohibit the discrimination of one
type of TV antenna over another. 

This may be your loophole.  Since they allow VHF/UHF antennas, you should
be able to erect a dish, unless they are willing to ban other antennas as well.

I'm no lawyer, but this issue has been widely discussed for years in the
satellite magazines and this was the result of a court decision a few years
back.  Perhaps your local satellite dealer is more familiar with the regulations


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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:51:00 EST
From:         CRISTIAN PANTEA <PANT6245@SNYPLAVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Need help with Equatorial dish

I also have an Equatorial satellite dish.  I think the dish is about 30"
I am not exactly sure what the dish was used for, but I think it might
have been used to get real time data such as stock quotes.
The reason I believe it was used for data is because it appears to have a
fixed feed no H or V polarization.  On the back of the dish there is a
square 7" box that is attatched to it and contains a lot of electronic
components. I opened it up and there was a board loaded with microchips.
I am not sure but I think that box would be the LNB.  Also on the box
there is sticker that list some components.  The lists includes LNB and
a corresponding number, a Multi Filter, a 1st Filter, a Main Filter.  All
 these components I think are contained in that square box.
On the square box there is only one connector wich is the type CB
radios use.  I guess through that connector the info is sent to the
receiver.

My question is could this dish with the proper receiver be able to receive
video signals?  I don't have a receiver for it.  Second could someone
give me a phone number for Equatorial so I can find out what this dish was
used for exactly?  I bought the dish about 2 years ago when some company
was going out of business.
Third, is there any way I can convert the dish for K band.  I think 30" should
be large enough, and yes it is solid.  I also brought the dish in to a
satellite TV dealer, and the guy looked at it like it was something out
of this world.  When I mentioned the word K band he looked at me and said
you don't want to receive K band there is nothing out there on that band.
I feel that a lot of sattellite TV dealers do not want to deal with K
band, or they don't know too much about it.  I ended up telling him about
K band and the different channels available.

Also I forgott to mention that it is a ring mount, and there are a couple
or markers on it, I guess for the different satellites.

If anyone can help please post an answer.

                                             Thank you
                                            cristian

                                   pant6245@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu
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