Comments on The Television Close Down And Start Up Blog: RASD TV

Welsh - I simply don't have a clue, ah the Gwent V...

2009-06-26T17:33:18.819+01:00

Welsh - I simply don't have a clue, ah the Gwent Valleys for you.

They were 27500 (Hispasat), 1852 (Intelsat)... Oth...

2009-06-26T17:13:41.757+01:00

They were 27500 (Hispasat), 1852 (Intelsat)... Other parameters available upon request!

By the way, I CAN now paste into the "Post a Comment" box. Hen fyd mor ddigrif, ondyfe?

Hehehe, I did leave out the fact you missed the sy...

2009-06-26T16:07:33.715+01:00

Hehehe, I did leave out the fact you missed the symbol rate, these are digital broadcasts.

Cheers

Patrick

>>its GHz not MHz for satellite broadcasts<< Hmm:...

2009-06-26T16:02:22.353+01:00

>>its GHz not MHz for satellite broadcasts<<

Hmm: isn't that a bit like saying "It's m, not mm, for satellite dish sizes"? We ARE talking SI units here, not rods, poles, and perches... ;)

11616 MHz = 11.616 GHz. We can surely take our choice: I'm sure Mr Hertz wouldn't mind whichever way we go! (For what it's worth, the Google count for Hispasat+MHz is 44,100; that for Hispasat+GHz is 16,000.)

As for the "non-pastability" question, I use Firefox myself -- but there we go: these things are sent to try us, I suppose...

No idea, possibly your browser, Firefox is fine. ...

2009-06-26T12:11:18.231+01:00

No idea, possibly your browser, Firefox is fine.

Also its GHz not MHz for satellite broadcasts ;)

Cheers

After a lot of searching on French- and Spanish-la...

2009-06-26T12:07:46.284+01:00

After a lot of searching on French- and Spanish-language sites (and learning more than I perhaps really wanted to know about the political history of the Western Sahara!) I've been able to come up with this "log" for RASD TV satellite reception in Europe:

27.05.2008 - 02.07.2008
Hispasat 1D (30 W) 11616 MHz H

24.03.2009 - present
Intelsat 905 (24.5 W) 11109 MHz H

PS: Do you know if there is some technical reason why I can't paste text into the comment box on your blog? Means I can't easily use the degrees symbol, for example :(

Keep posting these great comments Kevin, it was av...

2009-06-24T16:47:47.327+01:00

Keep posting these great comments Kevin, it was available before May 20th, I have seen it once before at 30°W almost a year ago.

I know little about geography really, so its always nice to know what's what.

Cheers

Patrick

Juat some notes for the record. The Sahrawi Arab ...

2009-06-24T16:44:33.065+01:00

Juat some notes for the record.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is not in practice co-extensive with the territory "more commonly known as Western Saharah". It is that part -- about 20% -- of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara currently controlled by the Polisario Front. The rest of Western Sahara is at present controlled by Morocco.

According to Algérie Presse Service, RASD TV's satellite operation was launched on 20 May 2009 -- this being "in addition to a terrestrial transmission for refugee camps and liberated territories of SADR".

Arabic is the official language of Morocco, though the Polisario -- as its name (Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Rio de Oro) indicates -- clearly uses Spanish.