fisher@dvinci.DEC (Burns Fisher, MRO3-1/E13, DTN 231-4108) (08/21/84)
A few months ago, someone reported having talked his cable company into
carrying NASA's video/audio feeds during shuttle missions. Now I am trying
to do the same for mine. Does anyone have any success or failure stories
to relate which might be helpful?
Is there something on that satellite channel all the time, or just during
missions? Anyone know the truth of a rumor that there is something "funny"
about NASAs use of the channel (what I heard was something like "they only
use half the channel, so it takes special equipment to receive it". Is
there something else on this same satellite that CATV companies will
normally be getting, so they will have an antenna pointed there anyway?
Thanks for any help you can give!
Burns
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ARPA: decwrl!rhea!dvinci!fisher@{Berkeley | SU-Shasta}gmv@petfe.UUCP (George Verbosh) (08/29/84)
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Based upon some exposure I had about 4 years ago, the video channel
for the shuttle missions is indeed 1/2 width and is carried on
one of the RCA SATCOM's.
SATCOM is the carrier for HBO, SHOWTIME et al.
and should be accessible to your local cable company (if they have
the proper down-converter).
I don't know what it takes to convert from 1/2
channel to the NTSC video the CATV company feeds into the system.
I'd sure like to see my CATV carry shuttle video/audio (my wife isn't
so sure).
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George Verbosh, Perkin-Elmer, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
...{vax135, pesnta}!petsd!petfe!gmvdw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng) (09/06/84)
I looked into the subject of NASA broadcasts of Shuttle events about
a year and a half ago. At that time the details were:
The satellite is SATCOM F2; the channel is 13. It's location is
119W; freq is 3.960 GHz; polarization is Vertical.
I believe that most of the cable tv stuff (such as HBO) are on SATCOM F3,
which is at 131W. I also understand that these signals are Horizontal
polarization.
The information above was suppose to be valid in December of 1982.
It should probably be verified.
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/Don
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