Posted by Armando Stettner on January 09, 2000 at 13:31:13:
In Reply to: Re: I can't get no satisfaction - from TV coverage posted by Chris B. on December 30, 1999 at 18:33:43:
I believe DSS small dish system recently announced that they have put it up or will put it up on their suite of channels.
I, too, was very very frustrated with cable TV (TCI)! I even sent several email messages to which I received a response saying they have to take audience and cost, etc. into account. Geez; with 500 or so channels, and given the junk they do have, you think the could add one more really great educational channel such as NASA TV to PBS and C-SPAN.... But, where I used to live, I dumped cable TV and got the big satellite dish (C-band) and tuned the satellite carrying NASA TV.
I believe it is on what is officially known as GE-2 (85 degrees, transponder 9C [3880.0 MHz, audio at 6.8MHz with vertical polarization]).
> > Spent 20 years in the Air Force. Helped send our heros to the moon on the Saturns. It was great. Now I can't even get any coverage on any of the TV Networks when there are space launches. Can anyone help find some place to get up-to-date information during the launches?? To all those at NASA, keep up the good work, and tell Congress that they can raise my tax's only if they spend it on the ISS.
> Phil-
> If you have a big TV satelitte dish, you can go to the NASA channel (feed?)and see everything that's going on "live." On our network we subscribe to thru our dish, we go to W2-09 which is the NASA channel. We saw quite a bit of this last mission live whenever it came within viewing reach of the NASA TV transmitter. I don't know how it works with the new small dishes. But it might be worth looking into. I do know that when we bought our big dish 7 years ago, it was more expensive than the small dishes but we got more channels. Plus some neighborhood areas don't allow the big dishes. We had to have a dish as the rooftop antenna just didn't bring in any local channels as we live in a rural area. So a big plus was finding the NASA channel and seeing what's going on when a shuttle is up there live. Plus there were other things on that channel also, i.e. when the last solar eclipse came by.