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Thursday 13 October 2011 10:16AM

Briantist: There is an article about the BT Madley International Communications Centre UK, in the latest issue of TELE - Satellite magazine, #1111.

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Ian: Like the majority of people in the UK, I can receive BBC via the Freeview tuner in my TV, and I do not, (and will never), subscribe to SKY.

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Channel 4 HD
Thursday 13 October 2011 5:08PM

Briantist: This is from the SES web site posted on the 4th October 2011. "The new capacity on ASTRA 1N will be used to transmit Channel 4's main high-definition (HD) service together with further HD services over the coming years".

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wayne:
Box Nation is on Eurobird 1,
Frequency 11585,
LNB Polarity Horizontal,
Symbol Rate 27500,
DVB Standard DVB-S,
FEC 2/3.

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Briantist: According to a news item on the SES web site, ASTRA 1N has now entered commercial service at orbital position 28.2° East. It will be used by Channel 4 and ITV.

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Channel 4 HD
Thursday 27 October 2011 11:49PM

Briantist: Channel 4 HD is now transmitting on Astra 1N, 11127, V, DVB-S2, 8PSK, 22000, 2/3.

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Channel 4 HD
Friday 28 October 2011 8:31AM

Briantist: My Freesat receiver will not pick it up on the "other channels" option, while a generic receiver needs all the ID information, whereas my blind scan receiver picks it up with no problem.

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Channel 4 HD
Friday 28 October 2011 8:43AM

Briantist: The ID information is,
SID 21200
VPID 2305
APID 2307 or 2306 (AC3)
PMT 256
PCR 2305.
I hope this helps.

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Channel 4 HD
Friday 28 October 2011 4:48PM

Briantist: This Channel 4 HD is now encrypted.

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ASTRA 1N satellite has entered commercial service
Wednesday 2 November 2011 12:02AM

Briantist: A new transponder has started on Astra 1N, the details are,
Frequency 11171
Polarity Horizontal
Symbol Rate 22000
DVB Standard DVB-S
Modulation QPSK
FEC 5/6.
It is a duplicate of the channels on Astra 2B transponder 26, 12207 V.

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