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Satellite Reception at Home SATELLITE TV RECEPTION 19.2° East - Astra 1A, B, C, D, E. 13° East: Eutelsat II Fl and Hot Bird 1" (Continued) Dish size required: 48cm in SE England, 60cm most of England, EDTV Dubai* Arabic / English 80cm in the rest of the British Isles. NBC Superchannel English Frequency bands: 10,700 - 12,100MHz. BBC World (news) English Sky News, CNN (news) English Euronews English / multilingual NBC Superchannel/CNBC English / German / Dutch TRT International Turkish / German / English Eurosport English / multilingual VIVA (youth / music), VIVA 2 (music) German TNT (films), Cartoon Network English / French RTL, RTL 2 German NHK Japan Japanese (some English) Polonia 1 Polish Arte (cultural) German / French ARTE (cultural) French ZDF, WDR3, MDR3 German M BC Arabic Bayern 3, Sudwest 3 German Deutsche Welle TV German / English / Spanish RTL, RTL 2, Super RTL German Canal Horizons* French (Nagravision) VOX, SAT 1, Kabel 1 German MTV Europe (youth / music) English (Videocrypt II) 3sat, PRO 7, ARD German Thirty-eight different radio stations, mainly Spanish, English, German, French, Italian and DSF (Sports), N3, Hot (Shopping) German Polish are transmitted on FM analogue audio sub-carriers. n-tv (news) German Galavision Spanish (from Mexico) 10° East - Eutelsat II F2 China News & Entertainment Chinese Dish size: 80cm in SouthernEngland and 1.2m in the rest of 3 versions of TV3 Danish / Norwegian / Swedish (D2MAC M) the British Isles. Veronica, SBS6, RT4, RT5 Dutch (Luxcrypt PAL) Frequency bands: 10,950 - 11,700 and 12,500 - 12,750MHz. Minimax, Cinemania, Documania Spanish (Nagravision) Vasa TV Slovak Teleclub, Premiere German (Nagravision) ATV Turkish Zee TV Hindi/some English (Videocrypt) Europe by Satellite (EU Commission) English / French / German QVC (home shopping) English (free access Videocrypt) TGRT Turkish Sky TV offer various tiers of subscription to 26 other English 'channels', which time-share 16 ET! Greece Greek different transponders, eg Bravo, Sky One, Sky Sports (see a TV listings magazine for details). World Net (US Information Agency) English Fifty-eight different radio programmes in an assortment of languages are transmitted on FM MED TV Kirmanji Kurdish audio sub-carriers. These include BBC World Service, BBC Radios 1 - 5 and a host of German Interstar Turkish domestic radio stations. RTP Internacional (will move to 13° East) Portuguese Seventeen different radio stations are transmitted on FM analogue audio sub-carriers. 16° East - Eutelsat 2 F3 Dish size: 80cm minimum in Southern England, 1.2m in the 7° East - Eutelsat II F4 rest of the British Isles. Dish size: 1.2m in Southern England and 1.5m in the rest of the British Isles. Frequency bands: 10,950 - 11,700 and 12,500 - 12,750MHz. Algerian TV Arabic/French Frequency bands: 10,950 - 11,700 and 12,500 - 12,750MHz. Egyptian Space TV Arabic E BU Sound-in-sync vision circuits Moroccan TV, Tunisian TV7 Arabic RTS Serbia Serbian Muslim TV Ahmadiyya Multi RIK Cyprus Greek Arab Radio & TV Europe Arabic Croatian HTV Croatian 1° West - Intelsat 702 TV Shqiptar (2 hrs daily) Albanian Dish size: 1 metre throughout British Isles. Duna TV Hungarian Frequency bands: 10,950 - 11,700MHz. Canal Plus Polska Polish (Nagravision) TV Norge Norwegian Rendez Vous French (D2-MAC M) NRK Norwegian (clear D-MAC) Tele Pace (Vatican) Italian Three versions of TV3 Danish / Norwegian / Swedish (D2MAC M) Euro 7 Dutch Romanian TV Romanian 5° West - Telecom 2B Dish size: 60 -80cm in SouthernEngland and 1m in the rest 13° East: Eutelsat II Fl and Hot Bird 1* of the British Isles Dish size: 80cm for Eutelsat II F2 and 70cm for Hot Bird 1* Frequency band: 12,500 - 12,750MHz. in Southern England. 1.2m for Eutelsat II F2 and TF1, France 2, ARTE French (Secam) 80cm for Hot Bird 1* in the rest of the British La Cinquieme, M6 French (Secam) Tele Monte Carlo, La Chame Info French (Syster) (Secam) Isles. Frequency bands: 10,950 - 11,700 and 12,500 - 12,750MHz. RTL-9, RTL-TVi French (Smartcrypt) (Secam) Nine different radio stations are ca ed on FM analogue audio sub-carriers. Eurosport* English / multilingual RAIUNO* Italian 30° West - Hispasat 1A/1B RAIDUE* Italian European Business News* English Dish size: 60 -80cm in SouthernEngland and 1m in the rest TVE Internacional* Spanish of the British Isles. MCM* (music) French Frequency bands: 11,500 - 11,700MHz and 12,000 - 12,750 MHz. TM 3* German Tele Noticias (news) Spanish (from Miami) TV Polonia*, Polsat* Polish Tele Deporte (sport) Spanish TV5*, MCM* (youth / music) French Canal Clasico, Tele 5 Spanish All programmes are general entertainment channels unless otherwise stated or the channel name is an obvious one, eg Eurosport, Euronews. All TV signals are clear PAL 625-line signals, unless otherwise indicated. Encryption systems are Videocrypt (mainly UK), Nagravision (France, Germany and Spain use differen YPes), Luxcrypt (all aimed at Dutch speakers) and Smartcrypt (miscellaneous). Table 1: The main satellites which can be received in the UK, with the stations and languages of the broadcasts. figure, receive noise figure, and individual By referring to Fig 1, it can be seen that a SATELLITE RECEPTION variations in transponder output into account, 90cm dish is required (in most of the UK) to AT HOME the following applies to Ku-band: receive good quality reception from the Eutelsat II satellite. DIRECT HOME RECEPTION of C-band sat- Dish Good Fair Poor All consumer products, satellite TV ellite TV and radio started in the United States Size Reception Reception Reception magazines and hobbyist publications simply once communications satellites were available 60cm 51dBW 48dBW 45dBW refer to C and Ku-band, but actually mean for the distribution of programming to cable 80cm 49dBW 46dBW 43 dBW only the specific frequency ranges above. It networks. Suddenly TV was available beyond 90cm 47dBW 44dBW 41dBW should also be noted that all other satellites - the urban areas and dishes started sprouting, 1.2m 45dBW 42dBW 39dBW weather, GPS, amateur etc - use different fre- particularly in rural districts. Small stations quencies. also discovered that there was a small but eager RADIO COMMUNICATION February 1996 61 .
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