Recent content by Big Ed

Good afternoon everybody, happy new year! I hope that you all enjoyed Chasing Midnight as much as I did yesterday. Unfortunately I missed the midnights at 2000 - 2200, because my neighbours invited me round to their place for a meal! Happily CNN broadcast some images this morning though, so I...

Hahaha they ballsed-up the clock on Caspionet! Who ran the VTR of the countdown clock 30 seconds early? Brilliant :-)

I'm really enjoying Simon & Garfunkel who are on 3Sat at the moment. Shame that 'Pop Around The Clock' and Chasing Midnight happen at the same time! Never mind, I know 3Sat does it on another occasion during the year. And yes, I agree about the Chinese and fireworks! I was watching MAC TV on...

JSTV1 FTA now on Hot Bird.

Thanks for the info Remlap (and happy new year!) Back when I were a lad, I associated SRs of 5632 and 6111 (amongst others) with standard MPEG2/DVB-S. I thought a SR7500 tended to be used with MPEG4 or DVB-S2 or other weirdo new things that I don't understand ;-) The quality of the pictures...

Hi Analoguesat, happy NYE to you! If Reuters WNS remains FTA permanently, then maybe you could find an old abandoned dish in a forest somewhere and stick it on a temporary tyre-mount for access to 22W next year? Even at your northerly location, I would have thought that a well-aligned 60cms...

The signal from Reuters WNS here (South coast UK) is absolutely huge on my 88cms dish. I reckon this might be a better bet than trying to go after APTN Charlie... assuming you have access to 22W of course! The fireworks at Sydney look very good indeed :-) Given the SR of 7500 or whatever it...

Ha ha I love it - Reuters WNS has been in the clear at 22 West since the summer... and I've only just noticed! That shows how often I have a scan over that particular satellite, doesn't it! Is there ever anything on NSS-7 worth watching, apart from wrestling, the Reuters WNS feed, and a few...

Yes the Dubai feed was indeed somewhere on 10E last year - somewhere between about 11.000 and 11.100 IIRC, down the vertical side. Peter Gabriel has just done a fabulous version of "Don't give up" on 3Sat with a singer I don't recognise. Don't forget "Pop around the clock" on 3Sat (19E) if...

Analoguesat - Yes I would say it was more low-key. They said on Sky News that the weather there was bad, and so bad it had lead to the cancellation of firework displays in other NZ cities.

Morning everybody, sorry I've rolled up a bit late. I left setting up my Chasing Midnight "receiving station" till the last minute ( = this morning!) I've been so busy! I watched NZ on Euronews in the end, I can't lock APTN Charlie either. On my 88cms motorised dish, ECHO is strong (when N...

Good morning everyone, and many thanks to everybody who took part in posting in this thread yesterday. I would certainly have missed a lot of things if I had not had so much information to hand. Here is my collection of screen grabs, if anybody would like to have a look...

There's a version of DF1 on WDR right now that looks a bit different somehow... recorded on film?

Dunno who is singing it, but there's a group on ZDF that has just sung "Blinded by the light" by Bruce Springsteen, and is now singing "(I just) died in your arms tonight" by Cutting Crew. They're quite good actually :-)

Is it my alcohol-fuelled imagination Analoguesat, or did Johnny Logan look suspiciously like Ken Barlow out of 'Coronation Street' in that performance? Hic!