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Sat-UK #123 09.10.97: TPS
Sat-UK Report #123:
- TPS now on HotBird 3
- Blinded by the Sun
thursday 9th october 1997
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Email: dominic@bigrp.demon.co.uk
Sat-UK Web: http://www.sat-net.com/sat-uk/
UK Satellite Control: http://www.sat-net.com/uk-satellite/
And now the news:
---------- TPS now on HotBird 3
TPS - Television par Satellite, has began a simulcast of one of its
packages on Eutelsat II-F1. The channels LCI - La Chaine Info, EuroSport
France, CNN International, BBC World, BBC Prime, RTM 1, TV5 Europe,
Canal Assemblee Nationale, TV7 Tunisie and Radio Classique can now all
be received from 12,124 V.
---------- Blinded by the Sun
(part source: What Satellite TV)
Tomorrow marks the start of the dreaded annual solar outages period.
Every year or so, as the Earth rotates, all satellites come directly
between the Earth and the Sun, causing a brief outage of power from the
satellite for about 3 or 4 minutes. This phenomenon catches ALL
satellites in geostationary orbit in the Clarke Belt, and is the plague
of the satellite TV broadcasting industry. In case you want to catch
this crazy heatwave, or need to know when to switch over to terrestrial,
here are the outage times for some major satellites:
DFS Kopernikus 2 - 28,5 east: 09.39
Astra - 19,2 east: 10.16
Eutelsat II-F1/HotBird - 13 east: 10.43
Intelsat 707 - 1 west: 11.48
Intelsat 803 - 27,5 degrees west: 13.44
PanAmSat 1 - 45 west: 14.59
So get yer sunglasses out, it all happens tomorrow!
All contents (C) 1997 Dominic Sedghi, except where indicated. All rights
reserved. The above may not be reproduced without written consent.
Information is subject to change and/or may be incorrect.
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