guy@anasazi.UUCP (Guy Finney) (12/04/85)
Since I got satellite TV over a year ago, I've enjoyed being able to get
unedited TV coverage of the (unclassified) shuttle missions. On the
current mission, however, I haven't been able to find NASA select at all.
It used to be found regularly on Satcom F1, channel 18 (don't hassle me
about horizontal vs. vertical please), but isn't there this time.
Where's it gone? Did they move to a Ku feed, or what? Yes, I know about
the half transponder on F5, but what I'm thinking of is the full power
transponder ostensibly 'donated' by someone (RCA?). Come to think of it,
the previous mission, the one with all the Europeans on it, wasn't on F1
either. Saw bits and pieces on Westar 4, the logo on the color bars said
"JSC to Germany". Anyone know what's happened?
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Guy Finney
{decvax|ihnp4}!terak!anasazi!guyjimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland) (12/09/85)
> Since I got satellite TV over a year ago, I've enjoyed being able to get > unedited TV coverage of the (unclassified) shuttle missions. On the > current mission, however, I haven't been able to find NASA select at all. > It used to be found regularly on Satcom F1, channel 18 (don't hassle me > about horizontal vs. vertical please), but isn't there this time. > Where's it gone? Did they move to a Ku feed, or what? Yes, I know about > the half transponder on F5, but what I'm thinking of is the full power > transponder ostensibly 'donated' by someone (RCA?). Come to think of it, > the previous mission, the one with all the Europeans on it, wasn't on F1 > either. Saw bits and pieces on Westar 4, the logo on the color bars said > "JSC to Germany". Anyone know what's happened? From the end of the schedule which was posted here: > NASA SELECT PROGRAMMING CAN BE > ACCESSED THROUGH RCA SATCOM F2R, > TRANSPONDER 13. THE FREQUENCY IS > 3954.9 MHZ WITH A LOOK ANGLE OF > 72 DEGREES, WEST LONGITUDE. > THIS IS A FULL TRANSPONDER SERVICE > AND WILL BE OPERATIONAL 24 HOURS > A DAY DURING THE MISSION. F5 is Alascom and is boresighted on Alaska. NASA was not on F5 but on F2 when it was at about 140 degrees. You may have only thought it was F5 but it was really F2R. Then they moved F2R to 72 degrees earlier this year and NASA moved with it.