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SAT Observations 96.11.11

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A news release from Cairo, Egypt, located at 30.3 North - 31.15 East
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WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE:
- Satellite and Transponder Observations in C- and Ku-Band,
- Commented from the Middle Eastern perspective.

WHAT YOU DON'T FIND HERE:
- Astra, Eutelsat Superbeam and Skandinavian Reports.
- D-Box Info, DF-1 Reports and daily Feed Listings.
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THE HEADLINES IN THIS REPORT:

- Future TV
- BHT Sound
- Amos Txpr

PAS 4, 68.4 East, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/pas4.html
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Future TV, Lebanon is now regularely txm a selection of their
programming on channel 10 of the 1stNet DStv package. During daytime a
Future TV test card is txm. The programming is not identical with the
txm on Arabsat 2A.

INTELSAT 604, 60 East, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/i604.html
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Today also on this sat the cricket tests from Sharjah (UAE). On txpr
38B, 4.188 GHz, Rc, New Zealand and Sri Lanka were on. English
commentary was again available on 6.60 MHz. Very poor quality.

INTELSAT 703, 57 East, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/i703.html
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On txpr 43B, 3.917 GHZ, Lc, the Ethiopian TV txpr, at 22:00 CET already
was CNNI switched on, with a very unstable picture and the number "97"
in the upper right corner of the screen, no sound carrier.
Testing...testing...testing...

ARABSAT 1C, 31 East, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/a1c.html
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On txpr 8, 3.869 GHz, Lc, the continuing cricket story. Today New
Zealand and Sri Lanka were on test. English commentary was again
available on 6.60 MHz. Good quality.
Actually the games are played in Sharjah (UAE), and not Dubai (UAE) as
earlier wrongly reported.

EUTELSAT II F2, 10 East, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/e2f2.html
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BHT - Bosna i Hercegovine TV on txpr 37, 11.575 GHz, V, changed their TV
sound carrier from 7.02 MHz to 6.60 MHz. On 7.02 is now Radio Bosni i
Hercegovine.
During the morning test card a sound carrier with test tone on 5.80
could be found.

AMOS 1, 4 West, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/amos1.html
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Txpr 5 on 11.576 GHz, V, is active again on the Israel beam, with a
blank carrier and no sound carriers.

PAS 3R, 43 West, SATCO-DX: http://www.satcodx.com/pas3r.html
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Far a short period of time late yesterday the "PANAMSAT" color bar test
card was again on 12.701 GHZ, H, in NTSC.

Best regards,

Henk C. Room
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