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Sat-UK-News #233 15.04.98: Sky Digital, ANN

Sat-UK-News Report #233:
- Sky Digital with two more packages
- ANN now on HotBird 4
wednesday 15th april 1998
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And now the news:


---------- Sky Digital with two more packages
 BSkyB has started another two digital packages on Astra 1D, on 11.778 V
and on 11.856 V. They are as follows:
 11.778 V     SR 27500 FEC 2/3  Free-to-air    BSKYB
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)
Stream 1, Ch 1         (Sky test card - listed)
Stream 1, Ch 2         (Sky News - listed)
Music 1-50             (50 radio channels, no sound or data - unlisted)

 11.856 V     SR 27500 FEC 2/3  Free-to-air    BSKYB
229                    (Sky News - listed)
407                    (colour bars - listed)
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)
306                    (Sky News, data for Sky One - listed)
Sky Sports 2           (Sky News, data for Sky Sports 2 - listed)
302                    (colour bars, data for Sky Movies 1 - listed)
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)*
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)*
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)*
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)*
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, no data - unlisted)*
[no name]              (Sky News - listed)*
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, data - unlisted)
[no name]              (no pic, no sound, data - unlisted)
On the channels marked with an asterisk, my Nokia 9600 kept locking up.
I presume these are test channels of some kind as they carried no
picture, sound or data stream. This second package seems to be changing.
It has been listed at SATCO DX with PIDs, but the channels have since
changed around a bit. I can't get the PIDs yet, so if anyone can, hex or
dec, please mail them to me.

---------- ANN now on HotBird 4
 ANN - Arab News Network has started transmissions on HotBird 4. It can
be found on 10.949 V, PAL/clear, sound in Arabic on 6.60 MHz. It is
slated to leave HotBird 2 soon.


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Information is subject to change and/or may be incorrect.

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