FROM THE CLARKE BELT ROGER BUNNEY 35 GRAYLING MEAD FISHLAKE ROMSEY, HANTS Satellite TV News S051 7RU ctober 20th and unusual sightings on Intelsat certain of the PAS -3R 803 © 27°W. Checking across the 1830 sighting from the Otransponders atI 1.590GHz horizontal Capsis Beach Hotel at NTSC standard picttires from an aircraft, hills, then I 2.735GHz horizontal close-ups of military installations, a tank and an November 3rd though it airfield. The 1800 hours sightings continued without looked rather warmer any audio and ceased transmission with a `Globecast than Romsey in NY' and the pictureS then cut. The following day late November! Orion is afternoon and up appeared pictures though this time often carrying NTSC of an unusual aircraft, prop to rear taxiing along a feeds in NTSC for MBC The unmanned surveillance aircraft Live TV surveillance images from the runway in the desert in the rising sun. Lifting off and back into the UK from seen on tests via 27°W aircraft. yet more airborne pictures - as before the camera around 1730, another in featured sighting lines and other inlaid data. A clear analogue - OK if subsequent discussion with a learned source revealed you speak Arabic...the that this was an unatanned surveillance aircraft world hasn't gone totally undergoing tests prior to use across former digital! James Yugoslavia. The then present, manned, air surveillance Broughton (Yateley) aircraft were being spotted with missile laser sighting modified his Horizon to and these are being Withdrawn. To whom these Horizon motor mount pictures were intended isn't known and unusually on his dish with an they were carried inI the clear, analogue! additional 150mm New reader GaiTy Crawford (Kennoway, Fife) actuator drive on top has a second-hand 1H dish and I dB noise LNB which lets him hinge the During the UK Thrust SSC land RTP Lisbon and a news feed via Eutelsat feeding a Pace receiver. He manually turns his dish dish upwards, achieving speed attempts. 11 F2 @ 10°E. from Astra (Sky) onto the various Eutelsats, Intelsats elevation adjustment and and the Scandinavian Thor slot. He's now planning to tracking any inclined orbit look for the various live sports feeds and I've satellites. Did anyone see suggested the publication What Satellite TV for all data the 'Shell Test' on satellite, prograntmes, frequencies, and transmission on Intelsat encryption. Perhaps Garry should talk to Dean 803 27°W at 0730 Rogers (SE2) who's main interest is sports news/OB morning of November circuits. Dean comments that football was 12th at 11.680GHz everywhere in Octber with matches from the horizontal? They French leagues on elecom 2c, UEFA Cup and remained on colour bars Champions League games on Eutelsat II F4 (most of for ages... these appeared on Eurosport delayed) and the Our old friend Roy The MIR station damage shown Live digital pictures from the cockpit of European Cup Winners Cup for Channel 5 carried Carman (Sandown, centre RH. the rescuing craft as it approaches the via Eutelsat II F3. The Norwegian game was played in loVV) has just returned MIR station. falling snow and during half time Dean heard the from a trip into the commentators tell the studio in London that they former Eastern Bloc, he passed through the power at a 21.6% efficiency compared to the 12.5% were off for a hot coffee after commenting Chelsea Brandenburg Gate into former Eastern Germany - norm. This was achieved by layering dual junction had probably been freezing their nuts off! Dean's a which resembles a vast building site - Roy gallium arsenide solar cells and selectively converting golf fan and his lowlight' sighting of October was the unfortunately suffered a car accident but found the sunlight into electricity. European Tour - OKI Pro -Am via Telecom 2D (5\AO local Polizei very helpful and kind. On his return, Roy Australia Television, the service that spans for Canal Plus Esparia using PAL in an encryption checked across the satellite arc and was appalled to Indonesia and SE Asia has been relaunched by the form that resembled System/Nagravision - but in view Iraqi news material on Eutelsat II F3 @ I 6°E ABC and The Seven Network and remains on -air - colour. (II .574GHz) showing women soldiers in action "in the service is now 100% English langauge and targets It's worth checking Intelsat K from around the name of Islam" - the Gulf area may well soon be English speakers, 'Aussi expats' and 'affluent English 073OUTC weekday Winter mornings as various feeds featured in news feeds again judging by current sabre speaking Asians'. And 'SVT International' should be into the UK's breakfast TV shows can often be found. rattling mid November. Roy comments that the only on -air soon via Sirius -2, being a service contributed The Reuters -2 uplink truck is often active around unencrypted feed seen these days on Hispasat 30°W from the Swedish SVT- I and 2 terrestrial networks. I 1.540GHz vertical with UK domestic offerings - in is their Lotterei National which is usually carried from A marriage between rivals French digital networks clear analogue. For example, morning of October exotic locations around Spain, check out II .575GHz AB SAT and Television par Satellit should see the 27th an item on trading standards was carried, vertical. combined service operational end '97. AB Sat's another day featured the dangers from high levels of There is a web site specialising in satellites, TV exclusive channels 'Animaux' and adult offering `XXL' lead paint found in did houses during renovation. At reception from same, equipment info, etc. and J.M. will go onto TPS and using Simulcrypt encryption. October end the North Atlantic birds - Intelsat K Winsor (Bromley) asked me to publicise the French The rival French digital service CanalSatellite 21 °W Orion -1 37°W and PAS -3R 43°W all became 'Club Europeen de DX Radio Television (CEDRT)'. If welcomes a new sports channel early '98. The very active with neWs inserts and two way interviews you subscribe to one of their publications then you channel will be run by Amaury Press and L'Equipe ex Massachusetts during the closing days of the have 'free' access to the web for a year - groups and offer 24 hour sports coverage and news - Louise Woodward tlrial, the verdicts and the judge's http:/www.ndirect.co.uk/-sorwin/cedrt.htm - as yet the channel has to receive a name. And in revised sentence. At one time, three simultaneous are the letters to tap, J. Winsor can be contacted via Poland, Canal Satellite Polska is advancing their plans analogue downlinks were visible into their UK clients. E-mail on [email protected] - I'm personally to start their digital service 18 months earlier (Spring Sky, BBC and ITV. Less exciting was the PAS -3R not active on the 'net, relying on the Post Office for `98), to rival Nasdaq's '@ Entertainment' package offering atI 2.702GHz horizontal in clear NTSC my mail, my Amstrad can only just cope with this (April '98). analogue entitled The Second Annual WorldwideLessons article so I cannot comment on what you'll find on Early October saw the demise of India's ISNAT- in LeadershipSeries with a main audio of original the site. 2D satellite, having been in operational orbit since dialogue overdubbed in Spanish and clear English on early Summer. A loss of power is the suggestion, but another subcarrier. News From Orbit the knock -on effects have been considerable, with I wonder if the t-aditional budget carrier Eutelsat I loss of communications to the more remote parts of F5 @ 25°E is well, a heavily inclined craft requiring The China Great Wall Industry Corp. - the Chinese the sub -continent. Over 80 regional centres have lost elevation tracking to maintain signal reception. I've outfit that launches rockets - will try their luck at contact with Delhi and even the National Stock seen nothing from lately and many evening circuits orbiting ChinaSat-8 in Autumn '98 via a Long March Exchange (NSE) ceased trading for three days. Some traditionally carried on this bird are appearing on 3B rocket The bird will offer 36x C -Band and 16 x services have been transferred to the ageing INSAT- both Orion and PAS -3R. For example Hands off Ku -Band transponders. Chinese launches in recent 2A and the new bird - INSAT-2E- won't launch until Horton Hospital, a live protest at 1800 concerning a times have been tarnished with rockets exploding and Summer '98 and even then many of the transponders hospital near Banbury was carried via Starbird UKI-94 failing to reach orbit have been prebooked by Intelsat! on Orion -I 2.670GHz vertical (a proposed merger Spectrolab Inc. in LA have introduced a new solar of the Horton and Radcliffe hospitals). I wasn't too cell that converts incident sunlight into electrical SWM January 1998 64.