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<blockquote data-quote="timo_w2s" data-source="post: 847264" data-attributes="member: 196043"><p>I remember SECAM from France. I saved up all my pocket money to get a "Telecom" band LNB back in 1991 and was excited to get those extra black and white channels. Back then I was operating on a budget so had to manually swap LNBs to change bands and even rotate the LNB to change polarity! Not to mention move the dish by hand as I searched for new satellites.</p><p></p><p>I used to pick up a few feeds too from the Intelsat satellites occasionally that were in NTSC and the TV would display it in black and white with black bars top and bottom (rather like widescreen today on a 4:3 TV) due to the resolution difference.</p><p></p><p>I also remember seeing an SIS B-MAC encrypted channel. I'm pretty sure you are right about it being on 27.5W.</p><p></p><p>We moved to Finland in 1992 and I remember seeing the last few terrestrial SECAM transmissions from Estonia but now I had a multistandard TV so it was in colour. It wasn't too long after the breakup of the Soviet Union and Estonia switched to PAL. I also used to listen to Estonian FM stations using a scanner at around 50MHz I think. In the summer months we used to often get Russian analogue TV during high pressure.</p><p></p><p>We also got a Nokia D2-MAC receiver while in Finland to get (legitimate!) FilmNet and BBC TV Europe/Prime. That was pretty exciting too. ;)</p><p></p><p>I still think French TV looks wrong in colour whenever I see it these days...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timo_w2s, post: 847264, member: 196043"] I remember SECAM from France. I saved up all my pocket money to get a "Telecom" band LNB back in 1991 and was excited to get those extra black and white channels. Back then I was operating on a budget so had to manually swap LNBs to change bands and even rotate the LNB to change polarity! Not to mention move the dish by hand as I searched for new satellites. I used to pick up a few feeds too from the Intelsat satellites occasionally that were in NTSC and the TV would display it in black and white with black bars top and bottom (rather like widescreen today on a 4:3 TV) due to the resolution difference. I also remember seeing an SIS B-MAC encrypted channel. I'm pretty sure you are right about it being on 27.5W. We moved to Finland in 1992 and I remember seeing the last few terrestrial SECAM transmissions from Estonia but now I had a multistandard TV so it was in colour. It wasn't too long after the breakup of the Soviet Union and Estonia switched to PAL. I also used to listen to Estonian FM stations using a scanner at around 50MHz I think. In the summer months we used to often get Russian analogue TV during high pressure. We also got a Nokia D2-MAC receiver while in Finland to get (legitimate!) FilmNet and BBC TV Europe/Prime. That was pretty exciting too. ;) I still think French TV looks wrong in colour whenever I see it these days... [/QUOTE]
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