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<blockquote data-quote="s-band" data-source="post: 1040074" data-attributes="member: 407744"><p>I started with terrestrial DXTV. NED1 & 2, BRT & TDF were regularly receivable in the SE. Soviet TV was there quite often in summer via sporadic E on band 1. I followed Steve Birkhill's exploits but never got anything from ATS-6 or quite finished a C band LNA for Ghorizont. The attraction was to get something that wasn't mainstream. </p><p></p><p>In 1988ish I bought the 1.5m IRTE, which I still use, and an Echostar 4500 from Micro-X and a year later a 3m Winegard from Alston-Barry for C band. In those days I actually watched some programming like: MTV (it used to be watchable!), CMT, CNN and trans-Atlantic feeds on 27.5W, TV Norge (inc. Roger Waters The Wall from Berlin) etc on 1W, Sat 1, Filmnet etc on 13E and feeds of the fall of the Soviet empire etc. C band had exotic stuff, unseen in UK, like NTA Ch 10 Lagos and Doordarshan. Seeing something from Africa emerge from the sparklies was magic. Memories still linger on Youtube e.g. [MEDIA=youtube]JD6WyYyufuI[/MEDIA] and this, which you could get on a dustbin lid on C band, [MEDIA=youtube]vPNanqfOMp8[/MEDIA] </p><p></p><p>Other weird early stuff included Saudi 2 & Egypt Satellite Channel on S band, PBS radio on L band Inmarsat, SCPC radio on Hispasat 45W and DSR (16 uncompressed digital radio channels on TV-Sat & DSF Kopernicus). </p><p></p><p>After a lapse, when analogue tailed off, I used a DM7000 in early 2000s. Once the interesting stuff was lost I gave up until returning a couple of years ago using a TBS card. Sad?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s-band, post: 1040074, member: 407744"] I started with terrestrial DXTV. NED1 & 2, BRT & TDF were regularly receivable in the SE. Soviet TV was there quite often in summer via sporadic E on band 1. I followed Steve Birkhill's exploits but never got anything from ATS-6 or quite finished a C band LNA for Ghorizont. The attraction was to get something that wasn't mainstream. In 1988ish I bought the 1.5m IRTE, which I still use, and an Echostar 4500 from Micro-X and a year later a 3m Winegard from Alston-Barry for C band. In those days I actually watched some programming like: MTV (it used to be watchable!), CMT, CNN and trans-Atlantic feeds on 27.5W, TV Norge (inc. Roger Waters The Wall from Berlin) etc on 1W, Sat 1, Filmnet etc on 13E and feeds of the fall of the Soviet empire etc. C band had exotic stuff, unseen in UK, like NTA Ch 10 Lagos and Doordarshan. Seeing something from Africa emerge from the sparklies was magic. Memories still linger on Youtube e.g. [MEDIA=youtube]JD6WyYyufuI[/MEDIA] and this, which you could get on a dustbin lid on C band, [MEDIA=youtube]vPNanqfOMp8[/MEDIA] Other weird early stuff included Saudi 2 & Egypt Satellite Channel on S band, PBS radio on L band Inmarsat, SCPC radio on Hispasat 45W and DSR (16 uncompressed digital radio channels on TV-Sat & DSF Kopernicus). After a lapse, when analogue tailed off, I used a DM7000 in early 2000s. Once the interesting stuff was lost I gave up until returning a couple of years ago using a TBS card. Sad? [/QUOTE]
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