Done.
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From: Clint Jeffrey [mailto:vk3csj(a)netspace.net.au]
Sent: Saturday, 30 July 2005 8:51 p.m.
To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: [nznog] NASA TV Feed on OPTUS B1...query
Hello to anyone that maybe still using this forum...I'm trying to get in
contact with Wally ZL1VWM about the question below:-
Hi Wally
I saw your call sign on the LygnSat site in regards to "NASA
TV", for a long time now I have wished for the powers that be to place a
feed on one of our Optus Satellites, in fact I'd even take a
subscription to Foxtel if they'd organized a feed for NASA TV. So far
nothing has come through, as member of "The Planetary Society" I have
even emailed messages requesting someone to organize a NASA TV feed here
in Australia. I've just discovered that Optus B1 has a feed albeit on
New Zealand, I'm wondering if you would know if I can see this feed here
in Melbourne? Currently I have a 90cm dish on a small motor control
using a Humax 5400 receiver, I tried a quick look for Optus B1 the other
night with out any luck though. Also I see the feed seems to be off the
internet rather than any actual feed from a live NASA source so to
speak, is that true? If so how good a quality are the images, at least
what I'm try to say, it that I currently look at NASA TV off the
internet, it's pretty horrible to say the least, picture keeps updating
and then digitizes and then comes good for a few seconds and goes all
horrible again, I have ADSL at 512 download, it's probably my computer
that needs the upgrading, but if there is finally a feed off a Satellite
visible in our own sky then bloody fantastic!....I'll go for that!
Any thoughts on this Wally.
Many Thanks
Clint Jeffrey - VK3CSJ
P.S I'm on my work computer at present, if you can, you can also reply
to my home email address which is vk3csj(a)netspace.net.au
