Testcards

Two off 5W - both Globecast tc's.

On the second one, NY = New York.
 

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Now one from 19E dated January 2003. This was radiated for a few days when XXP changed frequency
 

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Spotted today on 10E - this one is from Associated Press and can be seen occasionally when AP are doing reports from Ramallah in Israel.
 

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Back to distant lands now - Caspionet comes all the way from Kazakhstan. This is another one from late 2002 and was on 13E.
 

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This one is also late 2002/early 2003 - and is French channel Beur TV with a rather nice variation on the "circular type" of tc
 

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SVT2 11785 V Sirius 4 @ 4.8° East taken Sat 04 Apr 2009

*ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztGegC7rPM
 

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Herews a real bit of history. This is the famous Indian head testcard which was introduced as far back as 1939 in America!

Its got its own wiki page!

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_test_card

Ive seen this one a couple of times in European skies, but it seems to be exceptionally rare here in Europe.

Apparently with the digital switch over in America many of the stations have been carrying this image as the analogue transmitters have been switched off for the final time!

:-worship
 

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Heres one I remember well. I first saw this one a few months before Channel 4 launched back in November 1982. In those pre satellite days (we had just three tv channels - BBC 1 BBC 2 & Central ITV!) I was idly tuning across the tv band in the faint hope of picking up the Anglia ITV signals from Sandy Heath when I ran across this - transmitting off the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. :D
 

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An ultra rare on in Europe. Shown on Dr Dish TV last year this is from North Korean TV!
 

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Analoguesat said:
Herws one I remember well. I first saw this one a few months before Channel 4 launched back in November 1982. In those pre satellite days (we had just three tv channels - BBC 1 BBC 2 & Central ITV!) I was idly tuning across the tv band in the faint hope of picking up the Anglia ITV signals from Sandy Heath when I ran across this - transmitting off the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. :D
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After C4 launched it was to be 15 years before the UK got a fifth terrestrial channel! In March 1997 Channel 5 launched in parts of the UK only - only the main sites were ever equipped for the new service, it was deemed too expensive to do all the hundreds of relays.

This was another channel I found by accident whilst idly tuning across the tv band - this time off the Selkirk mast :D
 

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A classical testcard photo but for a very very distant land ,Sakhalin and Vladivostok area ,from Russian channel CTC+7 from ABS 1 at 75.0°E and 11640V Freq.
 

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Hi Analoguesat ...
This thread has taken off in a big way ..
I have to admit ..I'm really enjoying checking in to see the latest captures ..or stuff from the archives..
Any chance you will be collecting all of them into one rar or zip at some point..
I'd certainly like a copy of that ..should you decide to do it.

rgds
VS
 
Try this:


_http://rapidshare.com/files/304233359/testcards.rar.html
 
TRT test card 11919V Türksat 2A at 42.0°E
 

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Analoguesat said:
One from Iran Ive spotted this evening :D
Hotbird 13E
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The same testcard (but with receiver info bar ) from the sat who's carrying all persian sat channels , Intelsat 902 at 62.0°E and IRIB Esfahan channel (11088V)
 

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Last night 2 photos from Express AM1 at 40.0°E ,forum tv (11097H) from Uzbekistan and GTRK Grozny (11653H)
 

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I suppose this is 'technically' cheating ...but couldn't resist..
An old BBC testcard ..seen briefly during the comedy sketch show 'Armstrong & Miller' ..
It popped on screen for half a second during the comedy song lampoon toward the end of the show..
;)
 

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Vipersan said:
Hi Analoguesat ...
This thread has taken off in a big way ..
I have to admit ..I'm really enjoying checking in to see the latest captures ..or stuff from the archives..
Any chance you will be collecting all of them into one rar or zip at some point..
I'd certainly like a copy of that ..should you decide to do it.

rgds
VS
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Did you catch the ones I zipped up on page 3
*ttp://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/meeting-place/161643-testcards-3.html#post880433
 
Hi Caretaker ...sadly I didn't manage to grab them ..
every attempt was greeted with the same message from rapidshare..
..can only download if you are a Premium user...

doh!
rgds
VS
 
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