Jason White wrote:

I would love to be able to watch NASA Select from my shack again. Back when it was on analog C band I used to keep an eye on it during ISS passes. Now I believe it has moved to an MPEG 2 K band transponder. Does anyone here catch the downlink using "FTA" (Free to air) equipment? If so, I'd appreciate if you could contact me directly and let me know what kind of equipment is required, or any suggestions. The dish and feed don't bother me, it's the MPEG-2 receiver that I'm unfamiliar with. (And, yes, I know the commercial satellite TV carriers have it, but that would cost money :) )

I watch NASA TV off of the web during most events these days. I just go to

http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

for watching it on windows, and there are other similar capabilities for watching it use realplayer etc.

Gregg Wonderly W5GGW

This page seems to have the highest resolution NASA feed on the web:

http://www.whooda.com/

This is what I use.

Pieter, N4IP

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We use the NASA channel on our ATV repeater using Dish Network. The unit we use has a card, but no subscription and does work that way (channel 213).

However, we either have a problem with our receiver, or DishNet's software likes to give us problems because there is no subscription - the unit works for about two days and goes back to "aquiring signal" or will be found on their promo channel 101. That means we have to go back to the repeater site and choose channel 213 again.

It is also available with Direct TV without subscription, I am told.

Gene Harlan - WB9MMM NEW - Name Tags by Gene Harlan Technologies - publisher of Amateur Television Quarterly [email protected] 815-398-2683 - voice 815-398-2688 - fax http://www.hampubs.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:57 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] OT: How to receive Nasa Select?

I would love to be able to watch NASA Select from my shack again. Back when it was on analog C band I used to keep an eye on it during ISS passes. Now I believe it has moved to an MPEG 2 K band transponder. Does anyone here catch the downlink using "FTA" (Free to air) equipment? If so, I'd appreciate if you could contact me directly and let me know what kind of equipment is required, or any suggestions. The dish and feed don't bother me, it's the MPEG-2 receiver that I'm unfamiliar with. (And, yes, I know the commercial satellite TV carriers have it, but that would cost money :) )

73,

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My experience was just the opposite. Firefox 2.0 works and IE7 does not. Under IE7, I get a message telling me to download Windows Media player (which was already installed). I downloaded the latest version from Microsoft, and it still tells me that I need the media player.

There does not seem to be any support on whooda.com, so I looked up the parent company at www.vdc.com. It is a subscription service, but NASA TV is free and the viewer can be resized and moved around on the screen. Under IE7, I got audio at www.vdc.com, but no video. Just for grins, I tried Firefox 2.0 and the site recognized my browser, asked to install an add-on to firefox, and it worked great! I did not try www.whooda.com prior to installing the add-on. BTW - The high definition video loop demo is impressive. You need about 3Mbps to get the HD stream.

I watched ANDE, FCAL and RAFT deployment via the NASA TV Landing page. Sure wish I had known about these other sites. The resolution is much better! and... mentioning amateur satellites makes me feel better about responding to an off topic post. :-)

Randy - KI4LMR

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Iain McFadyen Sent: Sat 12/30/2006 12:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select?

whooda.com does not appear to work under Firefox, so I suggest you open in MS IE.

Iain KI4HLV

On 12/29/06, Pieter Ibelings [email protected] wrote:

This page seems to have the highest resolution NASA feed on the web:

http://www.whooda.com/

This is what I use.

Pieter, N4IP

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Getting closer... It recognizes FF 2.0, but doesn't catch on that I'm on a Linux box. So, the .exe installer file doesn't do me too much good...

By the way, the whooda add-in doesn't show up on Firefox's site. Makes me a little nervous...

Greg KO6TH

----Original Message Follows---- From: "Armour, Randy (ITS)" [email protected] To: "Iain McFadyen" [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select? Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:18:49 -0600

My experience was just the opposite. Firefox 2.0 works and IE7 does not. Under IE7, I get a message telling me to download Windows Media player (which was already installed). I downloaded the latest version from Microsoft, and it still tells me that I need the media player.

There does not seem to be any support on whooda.com, so I looked up the parent company at www.vdc.com. It is a subscription service, but NASA TV is free and the viewer can be resized and moved around on the screen. Under IE7, I got audio at www.vdc.com, but no video. Just for grins, I tried Firefox 2.0 and the site recognized my browser, asked to install an add-on to firefox, and it worked great! I did not try www.whooda.com prior to installing the add-on. BTW - The high definition video loop demo is impressive. You need about 3Mbps to get the HD stream.

I watched ANDE, FCAL and RAFT deployment via the NASA TV Landing page. Sure wish I had known about these other sites. The resolution is much better! and... mentioning amateur satellites makes me feel better about responding to an off topic post. :-)

Randy - KI4LMR

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Iain McFadyen Sent: Sat 12/30/2006 12:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select?

whooda.com does not appear to work under Firefox, so I suggest you open in MS IE.

Iain KI4HLV

On 12/29/06, Pieter Ibelings [email protected] wrote:

This page seems to have the highest resolution NASA feed on the web:

http://www.whooda.com/

This is what I use.

Pieter, N4IP

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Iain McFadyen wrote:

whooda.com does not appear to work under Firefox, so I suggest you open in MS IE.

whooda.com works on my Firefox on Windows XP, although the display is no better than than the smallest NASA RealMedia feeds. The issue appears to be that it uses Microsoft's proprietary Media Player, software that has serious portability, DRM and privacy issues.

whooda offered to install an MS Media Player plug-in on my Linux box, but I'm unwilling to let it try. The link offered saying "Click here to learn more" doesn't have any explanation, it just starts trying to download the WMP plug-in.

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Hi Jason.

First of all you need a FTA (free to air) digibox. Then you have a few options to RX NASA-TV

1: AMC6@82West C-Band http://www.lyngsat.com/amc6.html 2: Echostar7@119West Ku-Band http://www.lyngsat.com/echo7.html 3: AMC7@137West C-Band http://www.lyngsat.com/amc7.html

If you still have your C-Band dish, all you need is a new box, maybe a new LNB too. On C-Band you will also get the other NASA-TV channels, check the links, they have beam maps too.

Good luck with it.

Happy new year to all on the board.

Regards Brian OZ1SKY