From: rrg@PROLOGIC.COM (Ron Gomes)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: Ku-band services on Anik E2
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:28:02 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Apparently-To: <homesat@vm1.nodak.edu>

Bob Hoffman (hoffman@cs.pitt.edu) writes

	I was working from memory and mistakenly listed Canal Famille
	as Tr. 23.  It is actually on Tr. 27, not 19.  Tr. 19, at
	11,791 GHz, is most definitely Super Ecran.  It is often in
	fixed-key mode for previews and the Super Ecran logo is in the
	lower right corner.  I verified all of these last night.

Tr. 19 shows previews of Super Ecran, but only in the evenings.  Canal
Famille apparently only runs its programming (mostly children's
programming) during the day.  Very often you can find CF programs in
fixed-key on Tr. 19 in the mornings.  And as I mentioned, even when CF
and SE (and Reseau des Sports) are fully scrambled, the current and
next program names are displayed in SETUP mode on an authorized VC-II
Plus.  The identities of the services are also explicit in the barker
text that shows up (on the VC-II Plus) when they're fully scrambled.
SE on Tr. 27 (a movie channel) appears to be a 24-hour-a-day service.

The most recent Westsat guide (which I just received a couple of days
ago) has this wrong, i.e. it has CF and SE reversed, as in Bob's list.
Probably it's wrong for the same reason, i.e. because the fixed-key
previews of SE on Tr. 19 are being mistaken as an ID for the channel.
CF, RDS, and SE are provided by the same programmer.

As an aside, I can confirm that (from my location in NJ) the signals on
Tr.'s 19 and 20 are noticeably weaker.  This is a source of annoyance
to me; I've invested a lot of time and money and energy trying to get
noise-free reception of Tr. 20 (Musique Plus), but without success.
Sometimes, at night, it's ALMOST acceptable, but most of the time
during the day there's visible noise in the picture.  Having messed
with everything else, it would appear that to get better reception of
Musique Plus I'll either have to move farther north or get a larger
dish (larger than my current 12-foot).

Anyway, the list of eastern Ku-band services on Anik E2 is as I posted
it last time.  I feel silly posting it again, but will for the benefit
of anyone who's just keeping the most recent revision:

Tr#     Name                                    Language Scrambled?

19      Canal Famille/Super Ecran previews      French          VCII
20      Musique Plus                            French          no
21      Radio Quebec                            French          no
22      Television Quatre Saisons               French          no
24      Reseau des Sports                       French          VCII
25      TV Ontario/La Chaine Francaise          French          no
26      TV Ontario                              English         no
27      Super Ecran                             French          VCII
28      Ontario Legislature                     Fr+Eng          no
29      YTV                                     English         no
30      Family Channel                          English         VCII
32      Atlantic Satellite Network              English         no

				Ron Gomes
				rrg@prologic.com