I have a client who works for McBooz-Anderson-MG and is in Ireland WAY after he was told he'd be done. the question boils down to :

Can he pick up US Digital TV Satelite transmissions (in ANY WAY) and have them play on Irish hardware??

Conversely, when he gets home in Dec (He HOPES) if he's addicted to European TV can he do the reverse??

Basically, can he "see" a US satelite (for College Football) from IRL and then decode the Xmission to PAL??

And vice versa.

Chuck

And NO I DON'T know which city in IRL he is working in. If it matters as far as "seeing" the satelite, I'll find out.

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), September 10, 1999

Answers

Please delete. Off topic.

(grin)

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 10, 1999.

Chuck- When I was living in the U.K. and enquired about receiving American satellite, I was told it was not possible. Something about it being over the "horizon". But to contradict myself, I also heard the Queen watches horse racing from U.S. on her satellite. In Amsterdam some hotels advertised as having U.S. tv, although it may really have been an armed forces tv station for all I know. Maybe the answer is it is only available to important people or large businness, weird as that sounds.

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), September 10, 1999.

His equipment will have to use a converter if he is going to use it in Europe. The power is run at 50 cycles per second. The power outlets are a different configuration than ours.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), September 10, 1999.

Chuck,

He could probably pick up some stuff from the older "C-band" sats, but these newer little 18-20 inch dishes from DirectTV and DishNetwork use a pretty directional footprint. Soooo, since your inquiry is about the newer digital stuff, I would hafta say, in a word, no.

-- Don Wegner (donfmwyo@earthlink.net), September 10, 1999.

Chuck, No it will not work.

The US TV that is offered in Europe is the European transmissions of CNN and ABC. They are subscribers TV to big organizations for big $$.

Satellites are in a geo stationary position. Because of the position of them in the south (as seen from the us.) even though the C band ones are east and west they still string along the equator like pearls on a string :-)

As you know the earth is kinda round not flat :-)

If you use a globe and look you will see that a dish in Europe does not **see** the satellites and it would need to see them to work.

The programs that the queen is watching and also most of the leaders of other countries are watching are relayed over other satellites.

There are 2 of them needed to get the signal to Europe. They are digitally scrambled and only accessible to a select few ( I sometimes wonder what else is transmitted) the two used work both ways relaying quite a few signals between Europe and the US. There is a set of 12 around the world that is a system for the leaders to keep up with other foreign TV broadcast.

Always of course dependent on what is feed in from the countries and embassies.

I answered you in such detail so that you have a full understanding when you tell your friend *no* and he ask you *why* :-)

-- justme (justme@justme.net), September 10, 1999.

Thanks, gang. MY primary concern was whether he could see the satelite's footprint. even the easternmost of the US satelites I suspected would be a lot too far west for him. I ALSO suspected that if he could see the satelite it'd only be the "side-scatter" of the footprint. OH WELL, he'll just have to find a local company/whatever that is paying for US TV to get his college football. Thanks, again.

Chuck

It was late, and I was seriously un-"up" after a talk w/Mrs Driver and he was punchy from the trip and Whatever...

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), September 10, 1999.

Aren't there a couple of Russian satellites visible from Canada and the northern tier of states (by aiming northward)? That doesn't answer the plaintiff's question, of course.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), September 10, 1999.

He'd also need to get a US TV (different standard) and voltage transformer. Hertz didn't matter when I was in germany. Easiest thing to do is find AFRTS stationss in England, and go to a local pub that is frequented by american servicemen and is in range.

-- ng (cantprovideemail@none.com), September 10, 1999.