Interesting, they never said the sort of Batteries that were used, just said they were in the base of the thing! It would be interesting what type would survive 15 years + in such a hostile environment!
Astra 1N - Any News ?
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Originally Posted by derek500:
“One of the BSkyB's largest shareholders is the BBC Pension Fund.”
“One of the BSkyB's largest shareholders is the BBC Pension Fund.”
If that is correct, it shows that the Trustees of that pension fund are following their fiduciary duty in maximising the income/capital of the fund to the benefit of the pensioners, not the BBC as you seek to allude.
Since over £1 billion - or about £100 for each subscriber - is distributed by BSkyB in profits or dividends annually, a far better return than even on Greek Euro bonds, a prudent investor would be foolish not to consider including the shares in their portfolio. Many "ethical" investment funds avoid stocks considered tainted and all investors including you would have been stripped of them if the News Corpse takeover had been allowed.
Originally Posted by Everything Goes:
“News Corporation which holds approximately 49% of NDS!
They also own 39.1% of BSkyB.”
“News Corporation which holds approximately 49% of NDS!
They also own 39.1% of BSkyB.”
Just spotted this,. Based on you previous posts, will you be responding to this post Derek500?
Originally Posted by Gerry Wicklow:
“Almost as bad as the Mars mission a few years back that ploughd into Mars because the yanks were working in miles but the european s/w was in km.
”
“Almost as bad as the Mars mission a few years back that ploughd into Mars because the yanks were working in miles but the european s/w was in km.
”
Similar to the optical space telescope launched without anyone actually looking through it. Needed a pair of spectacles (not from Speccsavers
). Hindsight is a wonderfull thing 
That How to Build a Satellite program is repeated in a few hours time on BBC HD
Its also repeated on BBC2 Tomorrow just before midnight.
Or you could watch it on the Iplayer later.
Did anyone notice the bit about the dish is shaped for the individual country to maximise the signal?
What’s the bet that Astra 1N is setup for Europe not the UK?
Since most of its life will be there.
So I guess when 2E, 2F etc.. start transmitting we will get an even stronger signal.
Maybe then Zone 1 Sky dishes will work in the rain?
Its also repeated on BBC2 Tomorrow just before midnight.
Or you could watch it on the Iplayer later.
Did anyone notice the bit about the dish is shaped for the individual country to maximise the signal?
What’s the bet that Astra 1N is setup for Europe not the UK?
Since most of its life will be there.
So I guess when 2E, 2F etc.. start transmitting we will get an even stronger signal.
Maybe then Zone 1 Sky dishes will work in the rain?
Originally Posted by Ray Cathode:
“The launch was Astra 1N I think. The best bit for me was the antennas. Not curved so much as wrinkled and made out of carbon fibre & kevlar. They omitted mention of the Astrium built Eutelsat W3B? which lost all its propellant after separation from the launcher about a year ago. That was due to an incorrectly installed cable clip. ”
“The launch was Astra 1N I think. The best bit for me was the antennas. Not curved so much as wrinkled and made out of carbon fibre & kevlar. They omitted mention of the Astrium built Eutelsat W3B? which lost all its propellant after separation from the launcher about a year ago. That was due to an incorrectly installed cable clip.
”
Eutelsat W3B was built by Thales Alenia Space, not Astrium.
Originally Posted by jgrgilbert:
“Eutelsat W3B was built by Thales Alenia Space, not Astrium.”
“Eutelsat W3B was built by Thales Alenia Space, not Astrium.”
Sorry if that was wrong but aren't those companies linked in some way?
Originally Posted by Ray Cathode:
“Sorry if that was wrong but aren't those companies linked in some way?”
“Sorry if that was wrong but aren't those companies linked in some way?”
No, from Wikipedia:
Quote:
“Alcatel Alenia Space was established on June 01, 2005 by the merger of Alcatel Space and Alenia Spazio and was owned by Alcatel-Lucent (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%).”
“Alcatel Alenia Space was established on June 01, 2005 by the merger of Alcatel Space and Alenia Spazio and was owned by Alcatel-Lucent (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%).”
Astrium is part of EADS who are probably better known for the Airbus range although another division is the main contractor for Ariannespace. Older companies now part of EADS include BAe and Marconi, where the expertise for the satellite design and construction developed. You may have caught the references to defence work in the scenes from the Portsmouth base.
If I remember correctly, an Astrium based consortium won the contract for the first tranche of satellites for the Gallileo GPS constellation and another consortium based round Thales were losing bidders.
Back to IN, I note the still from Gremlins is on view at 0600 this morning, must be four days now.
Any comments anyone.
Any comments anyone.
Originally Posted by janet owen:
“Back to IN, I note the still from Gremlins is on view at 0600 this morning, must be four days now.
Any comments anyone.”
“Back to IN, I note the still from Gremlins is on view at 0600 this morning, must be four days now.
Any comments anyone.”
Sounds like the still is stuck in a frame buffer on a piece of kit. With some of the Evertz HD-SDI and SDI kit, if they lose an input signal, they display a still of the last frame in the frame buffer. Therefore, someone may have killed the signal (or stopped the playback) without disabling the actual output.
Don't forget though that these are test transmissions, and most of the users of Sky or Freesat won't even know that they are there.
Originally Posted by beerhunter2:
“Just spotted this,. Based on you previous posts, will you be responding to this post Derek500?”
“Just spotted this,. Based on you previous posts, will you be responding to this post Derek500?”
NDS is a private company not a PLC/Corporation. News Corp own 49%.
BSkyB is a Plc and News Corp own 39% of its shares.
There is a big difference between being a shareholder in a company and owning or part owning.
As 'owners' of NDS, News Corp run it. Whereas as 'shareholders' of BSkyB, they don't.
This is why the News International scandal is such bad news for News Corp, because it's owned by them (they are not shareholders).
It is for this reason that it's generally accepted that BSkyB has no connection with the phone hacking scandal.
it's the sky share holder lets ignore him
This is astra 1n freesat forum not sky propaganda forum derrick 500 please post on the proper forum
This is astra 1n freesat forum not sky propaganda forum derrick 500 please post on the proper forum
Originally Posted by derek500:
“NDS is a private company not a PLC/Corporation. News Corp own 49%.
BSkyB is a Plc and News Corp own 39% of its shares.
There is a big difference between being a shareholder in a company and owning or part owning.
As 'owners' of NDS, News Corp run it. Whereas as 'shareholders' of BSkyB, they don't.
This is why the News International scandal is such bad news for News Corp, because it's owned by them (they are not shareholders).
It is for this reason that it's generally accepted that BSkyB has no connection with the phone hacking scandal.”
“NDS is a private company not a PLC/Corporation. News Corp own 49%.
BSkyB is a Plc and News Corp own 39% of its shares.
There is a big difference between being a shareholder in a company and owning or part owning.
As 'owners' of NDS, News Corp run it. Whereas as 'shareholders' of BSkyB, they don't.
This is why the News International scandal is such bad news for News Corp, because it's owned by them (they are not shareholders).
It is for this reason that it's generally accepted that BSkyB has no connection with the phone hacking scandal.”
You do live in a fantasy world.
Originally Posted by peter05:
“nice to see how the satalites are put together on the BBC programe last well done BBC”
“nice to see how the satalites are put together on the BBC programe last well done BBC”
Yes, it was very interesting - though they could have made it clearer that is was at least 3 different Birds that were involved in the Prog, inc 1N being launched - but it was interesting to see the testing viberation - a Hard drive would not be able to cope with that
Originally Posted by derek500:
“NDS is a private company not a PLC/Corporation. News Corp own 49%.
BSkyB is a Plc and News Corp own 39% of its shares.
There is a big difference between being a shareholder in a company and owning or part owning.
As 'owners' of NDS, News Corp run it. Whereas as 'shareholders' of BSkyB, they don't.
This is why the News International scandal is such bad news for News Corp, because it's owned by them (they are not shareholders).
It is for this reason that it's generally accepted that BSkyB has no connection with the phone hacking scandal.”
“NDS is a private company not a PLC/Corporation. News Corp own 49%.
BSkyB is a Plc and News Corp own 39% of its shares.
There is a big difference between being a shareholder in a company and owning or part owning.
As 'owners' of NDS, News Corp run it. Whereas as 'shareholders' of BSkyB, they don't.
This is why the News International scandal is such bad news for News Corp, because it's owned by them (they are not shareholders).
It is for this reason that it's generally accepted that BSkyB has no connection with the phone hacking scandal.”
James Murdoch is Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Europe & Non-Executive Chairman of British Sky Broadcasting.
Yes no connection whatsoever
Dream on
Originally Posted by Neda_Turk:
“Can we PLEASE stop feeding the Troll.”
“Can we PLEASE stop feeding the Troll.”
yes stop feeding the troll he only likes sky bits & freesat may make him bad
Originally Posted by Ignite:
“Sounds like the still is stuck in a frame buffer on a piece of kit. With some of the Evertz HD-SDI and SDI kit, if they lose an input signal, they display a still of the last frame in the frame buffer. Therefore, someone may have killed the signal (or stopped the playback) without disabling the actual output.
Don't forget though that these are test transmissions, and most of the users of Sky or Freesat won't even know that they are there.”
“Sounds like the still is stuck in a frame buffer on a piece of kit. With some of the Evertz HD-SDI and SDI kit, if they lose an input signal, they display a still of the last frame in the frame buffer. Therefore, someone may have killed the signal (or stopped the playback) without disabling the actual output.
Don't forget though that these are test transmissions, and most of the users of Sky or Freesat won't even know that they are there.”
appreciate its a test,why not show a test card,it would look far more professional than this for technicians skills.
Originally Posted by janet owen:
“appreciate its a test,why not show a test card,it would look far more professional than this for technicians skills.”
“appreciate its a test,why not show a test card,it would look far more professional than this for technicians skills.”
It may be that there is a problem with the circuit from Technicolor to the uplink. These circuits take time (months) to install and maybe they are not ready in time. ITV may not be using the same uplink as before.
The still is just a frame store somewhere in the circuit maybe at a BT site where there is no way to insert a test card. If anyone should sort out the still it should be the uplink site wherever it is.
Originally Posted by Neda_Turk:
“So the round up of stunning happenings on 1N today = A Big Fat Nothing!”
“So the round up of stunning happenings on 1N today = A Big Fat Nothing!”
It's getting a nice suntan though
Originally Posted by grahamlthompson:
“It's getting a nice suntan though”
“It's getting a nice suntan though
”
At least when 1N moves to 19.2 it will be hardly used.
Originally Posted by Phil Owens:
“At least when 1N moves to 19.2 it will be hardly used.”
“At least when 1N moves to 19.2 it will be hardly used.”
you sound like a car salesman
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