Adam792
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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
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Just out of interest, I’ve been looking online for information about what was about in the skies above Europe in the mid 80s, before satellite became more popular with Astra 1A and other DBS systems at the end of the decade and into the 90s.
I stumbled upon this interesting scan of a Swedish document from 1985, which on pages 27-28 lists the channels carried by the original Eutelsat bird at 13°E in that year, launched in 1984 (ECS1/Eutelsat I-F1) -
http://www.teldok.net/pdf/Teldok-info3.pdf
The text is copiable so can be translated with Google translate. Obviously at that time the channels were intended for reception by cable companies, shared across 10 transponders -
Sky Channel
Music Box (precursor to Super Channel)
3Sat
TV5
SAT.1
ATN/FilmNet
World Public News
RTL-Plus
Teleclub
Europa TV
RAI Uno
New World Channel
Worldnet
I stumbled upon this interesting scan of a Swedish document from 1985, which on pages 27-28 lists the channels carried by the original Eutelsat bird at 13°E in that year, launched in 1984 (ECS1/Eutelsat I-F1) -
http://www.teldok.net/pdf/Teldok-info3.pdf
The text is copiable so can be translated with Google translate. Obviously at that time the channels were intended for reception by cable companies, shared across 10 transponders -
Sky Channel
Music Box (precursor to Super Channel)
3Sat
TV5
SAT.1
ATN/FilmNet
World Public News
RTL-Plus
Teleclub
Europa TV
RAI Uno
New World Channel
Worldnet