Huygens TV

I'm probably being dumb here, but I can't seem to get the ESA TV on my
satellite system. As will become clear, satellite TV is not my specialist
subject. Using the Sky menus, I've got it tuned on

Freq: 12.551 Ghz (not 12551.5 MHz since I cant choose fractions of a GHz)
Symbol rate 22 MHz
FEC 5/6

I don't see any option to change the transponder.

When I select 'find channel' I just get 'No Channel Found'

What did I miss?

ESA, which is broadcasting the Huygens mission at the moment transmits on
the Astra 1 Satellite at 19Deg E, at a frequency of 10832H SR 22000.
Sky digital is on Astra 2 at 28Deg E, so unless you have a steerable dish
that you can move around to 19DegE, you won't pick it up.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:30:25 +0000, John Hirst wrote:

ESA, which is broadcasting the Huygens mission at the moment transmits on
the Astra 1 Satellite at 19Deg E, at a frequency of 10832H SR 22000.
Sky digital is on Astra 2 at 28Deg E, so unless you have a steerable dish
that you can move around to 19DegE, you won't pick it up.
bugger!

Yeah I've just watched the press conference on BBC interactive. Good to see
Chris Lintott doing his Magnus Pike again from the back of the auditorium!

Congrats to ESA

Cheers

Andy


"John Stolz" wrote in message
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I'm probably being dumb here, but I can't seem to get the ESA TV on my
satellite system. As will become clear, satellite TV is not my specialist
subject. Using the Sky menus, I've got it tuned on

Freq: 12.551 Ghz (not 12551.5 MHz since I cant choose fractions of a GHz)
Symbol rate 22 MHz
FEC 5/6

I don't see any option to change the transponder.

When I select 'find channel' I just get 'No Channel Found'

What did I miss?

John Stolz wrote:

FEC 5/6

Says it all, really.

Cheers

Martin

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Martin Frey
http://www.hadastro.org.uk
N 51 02 E 0 47

"John Stolz" wrote in message
news
I'm probably being dumb here, but I can't seem to get the ESA TV on my
satellite system. As will become clear, satellite TV is not my specialist
subject. Using the Sky menus, I've got it tuned on

Freq: 12.551 Ghz (not 12551.5 MHz since I cant choose fractions of a GHz)
Symbol rate 22 MHz
FEC 5/6

I don't see any option to change the transponder.

When I select 'find channel' I just get 'No Channel Found'

What did I miss?

If you check out Sky News digital or BBC News 24 on the digital service
there is a scrren running on the mission.

Sky normally does a good job of covering such things live (like the launch
the other day of Deep Impact)

Martin