wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (01/07/86)
A couple weeks ago (I'm backlogged on my postings!) Glenn Hauser, in his weekly "World of Radio" program, mentioned that he had received a report, sort of third or fourth-hand, that the Galaxy 1 satellite signal was being jammed in or from a source in Arkansas. This was supposed to be a threat against some or all of the premium pay-video services to not scramble their signals. I have heard nothing else about this before or since. Anybody have any info on this subject, have seen anything in writing about it, or have comments to offer? Will
boyce@daemen.UUCP (Doug Boyce) (01/15/86)
> A couple weeks ago (I'm backlogged on my postings!) Glenn Hauser, in his > weekly "World of Radio" program, mentioned that he had received a > report, sort of third or fourth-hand, that the Galaxy 1 satellite signal > was being jammed in or from a source in Arkansas. This was supposed to > be a threat against some or all of the premium pay-video services to not > scramble their signals. I have heard nothing else about this before or > since. Anybody have any info on this subject, have seen anything in > writing about it, or have comments to offer? > > Will I watched that satellite during recess/vacation Dec 23-Jan 6 (in NYC) with no problem so I don't think that it is true. -- Doug Boyce Daemen College, Buffalo NY UUCP : {decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!daemen!boyce ihnp4!kitty!daemen!boyce ARPA : boyce%buffalo@csnet-relay "And you too can go to Daemen College and enter the high tech field of floor polishing."
guy@anasazi.UUCP (Guy Finney) (01/19/86)
Last week's Satellite TV Week (a sort of TV Guide covering Satellite TV)
had a small clip in their news section which said that for a short while
in late October, WOR and the Showtime scrambling test feed seemed to
disappear (snow, not blank video). Wishful thinkers like to believe
some electronics whiz got mad when WOR said they were thinking about
scrambling, and wanted to get back at them. Seems unlikely to me,
but of course there are a lot of deranged people in the world.
--
Guy Finney
{decvax|ihnp4}!terak!anasazi!guyuhclem@trsvax (01/23/86)
[You've got a nice satellite here ... We wouldn't want anything to happen to it....] There was an article off the AP wire around christmas reporting the FCC was being asked to investigate jamming of a satellite that was occuring around the end of October. The article went on to say that this went on for hours, and so they were certain it wasn't some incompetent remote news crew trying to bounce a news story back to the home office, since they usually screw-up other frequencies for only a minute or so. The article went on to say that it was almost impossible to find the guilty parties and went on to tell everyone how $600, your home satellite dish and a bit of work could put you into the jamming business. Thank you, AP! And now for something different! <FLAME ON> Well, I hope Homemax and Cinebox are happy with their new toy. I know one thing; the glorious MeinComm decoder that they use generates really strange audio when we have heavy cloud cover/fog and rain here. (Bet when the weather is really bad at the uplink it gets worse.) It used to be the video was the only thing that got noisy, but now the digital sound starts sounding really goofy. Think of "Mr. Rogers" voice run through a Vocoder, and you get an idea of what happens to voices. The local cable company, as always, says there is nothing they can do, which is probably true for a change. I suppose they could complain, withhold payments, and so on, but good old Time/Space Inc. would simply tell their decoders to turn off the city cable until the check is in the bank. Just wait until the Spring when the sun crosses behind the Satellite EVERY day for a week or so and the signal is so weak that nothing but gas music from Jupiter emerges. (Why is this funny?) (I do not own a dish, and am forced to get HBO through a 37 mile wire, with 25,000 taps in front of me.) <FLAME OFF> "Now children, don't play or stand too close to the power pole, or you might inductively receive cable signals and have to go to jail under Texas law." <The above is the opinion of me and not my Golden Retriever. He still watches Gilligan on the rabbit ears.> "Thank you, Uh Clem." Frank Durda IV @ <trsvax!uhclem>
dsi@unccvax.UUCP (01/31/86)
> Well, I hope Homemax and Cinebox are happy with their new toy. > I know one thing; the glorious MeinComm decoder that they use generates > really strange audio when we have heavy cloud cover/fog and rain here. > (Bet when the weather is really bad at the uplink it gets worse.) Really? I just saw my VideoCipher II back up in Winston Salem working fine on an 11 foot ADM dish. It seems to work quite nicely even when there are sparkles. Call your cable company and tell them to stop using Automation Techniques or Sat-Tec receivers at the headend.... dya P.S. When it gets back down here, I'll report on the VC-2