Chasing midnight new years eve 2018

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I assume we will be running the usual end of year Follow the Fireworks fun on the forum?

Usual routine, tune into Auckland midnight at 1100 UK time then work our way westwards across the time zones seeing what weird & wonderful celebrations we can find, no doubt a smattering of wrinkly rockers and an awful lot of fireworks!

For those of you that havent seen the format before the usual firework highlights are

Auckland
Sydney
Taipei
Pyongyang(!) - had an excellent display in 2016 & 2017
Dubai
Moscow
Berlin or one of the German cities
London

Channels are all almost all watched via FTA channels on 13E during the day, the Germans on 19E & a few news channels on 28E. There are always a few contributors chipping in with some of the other birds - eg the Ukrainians & Baltics on 5E and whatever other oddities we can find on the other birds across the European arc.

There is also the opportunity to watch the classic Dinner For One on 19E

Same procedure as every year?? :D

I'll close this for now & reopen it a few days before NYE

BTW - the first record I can find of Chasing Midnight here is way back in 2004, with annual occurences since 2007!

If any of the forum regulars are around NYE please drop by the thread & say hello. :)
 

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remlap's predictions sheet is currently up for 2019

Chasing Midnight 2019


If you havent joined in with this before we start in Auckland at 1100UTC using Euronews or Sky News then hop west one timezone at a time. Once we get to around 2100UTC we start to get a good choice of channels so folk pick their favoured country each hour & report in after the clock strikes the local midnight & with what they have seen. Screengrabs & photos are always most welcome to give a flavour of what has occurred where. Something unexpected always happens somewhere which is half the fun. :)
 

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Give some thought later in the first day of 2019 for New Horizons, passing a lump - or more - of something that the last time it was in a similar position in the sky, Sir Christopher Wren was still alive.

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12.33 Eastern time.
 

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Right heres our archive of Chasing Midnight:

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2004 is the first year I can find on this forum.

2004 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-on-new-years-eve.18710/
2005 - cant find a record of it happening on here
2006 - cant find a record of it happening on here
2007 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2007.75244/
2008 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2008.99989/
2009 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2009.119200/
2010 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2010.141999/
2011 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2011.151144/
2012 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2012.156716/
2013 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2013.160007/
2014 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2014-15.163459/
2015 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2015-16.167331/
2016 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2016.170343/
2017 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2017.172850/
 

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OK open for business :)
 

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Reuters Live

Reuters streaming schedule will be the same as what's on 22ºW.
 

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No VTV4 Vietnam on Hotbird this year - the international service was pulled off most satellites earlier in the year. :(

EDIT - Times Now India seems to have vamoosed as well..
 
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No VTV4 Vietnam on Hotbird this year - the international service was pulled off most satellites earlier in the year. :(
I enjoyed Russian speaking news on this channel!
 

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I am in search of information for this uplink:
Cèilidh na Bliadhn' Ùire 2018

Anyone has any ideas where there will be, which satellite ?


Auckland
Sydney
Taipei
Pyongyang(!) - had an excellent display in 2016 & 2017
Dubai
Moscow
Berlin or one of the German cities
London
I guess most of them will be on 22.0°W again.
 

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28E BBC Alba. Looks like its the Gaelic opt out as Hogmanay Live on BBC Scotland starts at 23.10 as well.
Yes, but i can't see 28.2°E, because of UK beam.
This is why i am searching for main uplink.
 

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Spot any feeds being prepared please add them here so I can add them to the spreadsheet.

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Also some interesting stuff from CBC this year

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I checked my feed archives and I recorded this feed in 2014 and it was uplinked to 24.5°W (10971 H 4800 2/3).
This year, try 24.5°W or 16°E.
Thanks for info.

Known frequencies i have:
2014:
Satellite Position : 24.5°w

Frequency:10971MHz
SymbolRate: 4800
Polarity : Horizontal
ID: UKI-23 P1


2016:
Satellite Position : 7°E

Frequency : 12546.048 MHz
SymbolRate : 5632

Polarity : Horizontal
ID: Hogmanay, Stirling



This is all i have found throughout the years.
 
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24.5ºW is being wound up so don't expect it there.
 

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For the first time Ive got access to the Reuters feed on 22W so not so dependent on news channels changing over with a few seconds to go :)
 
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Hi to all the regulars
Something I spotted today,a Turkish version of Dinner for one,to be shown on WDR at 4.20PM (GMT),called Döner for one (what else)
Not seen it before,so maybe another first alongside the UK screening of Dinner for one.
 
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