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    From edsllcofaz@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 28 11:44:42 2018
    Hi Folks,

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based, hosted by a guy who's name I can't remember, that he originated from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Does anyone remember the name of the guy, or the show?

    Thank in advance,
    Jeff

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Sun Jan 28 16:19:11 2018
    On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:44:42 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based,

    Unknown....and off-hand, I think a special receiver would have been
    required to tune it in.

    I don't recall consumer grade equipment being able to select a narrow
    band frequency...but I'd have to double check on this tidbit.

    A bigger dish may have been required, with a better LNB, with
    PLL...which means fewer consumers had such equipment. A PLL based LNB
    may have cost around $200.00 then.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Sun Jan 28 19:24:27 2018
    On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:44:42 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show,
    internet based, hosted by a guy who's name
    I can't remember, that he originated from the
    Turks and Caicos Islands.

    If you knew what satellite, there might be a way to find out...maybe

    It would have been broadcasted on Single channel per carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_channel_per_carrier

    And like I said, a decent quality satellite setup would have been
    required to tune in that frequency. So, I suspect this was being rebroadcasted.

    You might ask over here...have to login

    http://www.satforums.com

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Sun Jan 28 19:28:34 2018
    On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:44:42 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Turks and Caicos Islands.

    There were three AM radio stations (one inactive) and six FM stations
    (no shortwave) in 1998. T

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands

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  • From Bruce Esquibel@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Mon Jan 29 11:24:06 2018
    edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based,
    hosted by a guy who's name I can't remember, that he originated from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Does anyone remember the name of the guy, or the show?


    Probably Bob Cooper.

    You'll have to rummage around here:

    http://boresight.ripco.com

    He appeared on some of the Friday Night Live shows (under the Satellite
    Radio Shows) along with apperances on the Boresight shows like this one:

    http://boresight.ripco.com/87-1-29_BS.mov

    The video is crap quality and you need something to play mostly .mov format (old apple movie format) but they are there at least.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

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  • From Bruce Esquibel@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jan 29 11:47:15 2018
    JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> wrote:

    It would have been broadcasted on Single channel per carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_channel_per_carrier

    And like I said, a decent quality satellite setup would have been
    required to tune in that frequency. So, I suspect this was being rebroadcasted.

    Thats not really true.

    Many of the radio shows from the 80's and 90's over satellite were on the standard audio channels (6.2 and 6.8) of the major satellites at the time.

    The trick was, those were mostly overnight because the satellite time was
    cheap and usually on off-channel transponders that were used during the day
    for news and other occasional feeds.

    Some of them, like LTRN were actually fed to the uplink via a dedicated line
    or even ISDN. Others used regular telephones lines, some were on shortwave
    and either simulcasted on satellite or played later via tape delay.

    All you needed was a regular c-band receiver and knew where to tune, which
    was subject to change week-to-week.

    Matter of fact, the 1st time I ran across usenet was over satellite. That
    guy that used to host LTRN used to pull the messages from this group (rec.video.satellite.tvro, I think, could of been a shortwave group) and
    send them via a 300 baud carrier uplinked to somewhere. If you took a dialup modem and wired an audio plug to the phone line input, put the modem into "stupid mode" and serial into the computer, you used to be able to get the weeks post.

    The SCPC stuff existed but I don't think was used for "screwing around" that much because of the costs and lack of hardware in the consumer world.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

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  • From Bruce Esquibel@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Mon Jan 29 12:25:07 2018
    edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based,
    hosted by a guy who's name I can't remember, that he originated from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Does anyone remember the name of the guy, or the show?

    I did a quick check, wasn't sure if all the files were still around but
    if you can get the video to play on this one:

    http://boresight.ripco.com/86-12-4_BS.mov

    and go to about the 7 minute mark, that's the guy you are probably thinking
    of.

    But I didn't spot any of his radio shows.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

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  • From edsllcofaz@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Bruce Esquibel on Mon Jan 29 09:57:38 2018
    On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 5:25:07 AM UTC-7, Bruce Esquibel wrote:
    edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based,
    hosted by a guy who's name I can't remember, that he originated from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Does anyone remember the name of the guy, or the show?

    I did a quick check, wasn't sure if all the files were still around but
    if you can get the video to play on this one:

    http://boresight.ripco.com/86-12-4_BS.mov

    and go to about the 7 minute mark, that's the guy you are probably thinking of.

    But I didn't spot any of his radio shows.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

    Thanks guys, exactly what I was looking for. I'd forgotten about Shaun Kenny, Boresight, and Greensheet too. Those were the days!

    Jeff

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Mon Jan 29 12:12:42 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:57:38 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    Shaun Kenny

    I think he fell off of a roof (RIP), around the time Motorola was
    taking him to court.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Mon Jan 29 13:07:53 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:57:38 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    I'd forgotten about

    rec.video.satellite.tvro Newsgroup FAQs http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/rec/rec.video.satellite.tvro.html


    02/04/2000 - Has anyone else received the mailer from Turnervision/Netlink/Superstar about dropping C-Band service and
    switching to DISH 500 Network? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.video.satellite.tvro/S7-KkfdqtmU/aiABtopU84sJ



    With Google's search engine, you can search here:

    rec.video.satellite.tvro https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.video.satellite.tvro


    These two were scanned for Cooper, so scroll upwards to see start of
    thread, if interested.


    June 1, 2007 - TVRO Industry has died https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.video.satellite.tvro/Cooper|sort:date/rec.video.satellite.tvro/APfJYB2nzUQ/xnxPx5mbCF8J

    Remember when hbo scrambled https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.video.satellite.tvro/Cooper|sort:date/rec.video.satellite.tvro/NCnKIWkfJGc/ODl7FMMVAGcJ

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to bje@ripco.com on Mon Jan 29 12:49:24 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:47:15 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Esquibel
    <bje@ripco.com> wrote:

    Thats not really true.

    Many of the radio shows from the 80's and 90's over satellite were on the >standard audio channels (6.2 and 6.8) of the major satellites at the time.

    What I recall was from a book I read many years ago. Yes, there were
    timeslots available here/there when main user was "off-line."

    On another topic, speaking of timeslots

    A clear channel radio station broadcasted underground music during
    "off-line" time, after midnight. Back then, the transmitter had to be powered-on during "off-time," so the station engineer had an idea.

    "Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford was the first underground music
    program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station in the
    central US.[citation needed] Beaker Street began on Little Rock,
    Arkansas 50,000 watt AM radio station KAAY late in 1966 and ran
    through 1972.
    ...
    ...
    The KAAY nighttime signal was so strong that young people in Havana
    City and in other places in Cuba were able to receive it clearly. In
    the late 1970s, music sung in English was restricted by the Communist Government. Cuban radio stations were allowed to devote only about 20%
    of their time broadcasting music sung in English, so many young people
    used to listen American radio stations as a response to that
    limitation, and the KAAY was one of the most popular. Today young
    people from those years still remember the DJ announcing "Beaker
    Street... an underground music service from KAAY, Little Rock,
    Arkansas."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_Street

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_YVVmQCYA

    How it sounded back then...background music before and after song was
    a standard feature...if stoned, it was "space-ee" to listen to.

    AM radio, sounded good, back then:-)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhHQ6HF8OM

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to edsllcofaz@gmail.com on Mon Jan 29 13:09:56 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:57:38 -0800 (PST), edsllcofaz@gmail.com wrote:

    I'd forgotten about

    http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jan 29 13:31:44 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:07:53 -0600, JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> wrote:


    Note, the complete URL will have to be copied/pasted

    June 1, 2007 - TVRO Industry has died >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.video.satellite.tvro/Cooper|sort:date/rec.video.satellite.tvro/APfJYB2nzUQ/xnxPx5mbCF8J

    Remember when hbo scrambled >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.video.satellite.tvro/Cooper|sort:date/rec.video.satellite.tvro/NCnKIWkfJGc/ODl7FMMVAGcJ

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to bje@ripco.com on Tue Jan 30 20:17:05 2018
    On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:47:15 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Esquibel
    <bje@ripco.com> wrote:

    radio shows

    I know nothing about this topic, but if they could be picked up, a 12'
    dish may be required.


    We are on AMC-18

    May 10th, 2017

    The five U.S. commercial radio networks who operate their own
    satellite systems have now been up and running on the new AMC-18 at
    105 degrees West Longitude for a month. 105 degrees West is the
    long-term replacement location for radio network traffic that's been
    at 139 degrees West for many years. AMC-8 has exceeded its design life
    and is not being replaced by an equivalent C-band satellite at the
    same location.

    http://www.amc8migration.com/

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  • From sheamax595@gotvdsb.ca@21:1/5 to edsll...@gmail.com on Thu Oct 4 08:41:50 2018
    On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 2:44:43 PM UTC-5, edsll...@gmail.com wrote:
    Hi Folks,

    Back in the 1990's there was a satellite radio show, internet based, hosted by a guy who's name I can't remember, that he originated from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Does anyone remember the name of the guy, or the show?

    Thank in advance,
    Jeff

    no

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