From agonzalez@clari.net Sat Jul 15 20:24:41 1995
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From: agonzalez@clari.net (Amy González)
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Subject: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape?
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Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up.

Right at 02:14 in 'Memory Hatch', she stops singing completely and just stares directly into camera 2.
If you look at the lower third timecode on the broadcast feed, the studio audio meter doesn't drop to zero -- the 14.2 Hz sub-tone stays active.

Did anyone in Hamburg actually attend in person? The hall looked completely empty except for camera crews.

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Amy González -- ClariNet Communications Corp
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From mnovak@mindspring.com Mon Jul 17 22:34:41 1995
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From: mnovak@mindspring.com (Mikhail Novak)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape?
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In article <1995Jul15.202441.4239@clari.net>, agonzalez@clari.net (Amy González) writes:
> Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up.

I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising.

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=== Mikhail Novak ===
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From mhughes@inria.fr Wed Jul 19 09:49:41 1995
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From: mhughes@inria.fr (Matthias Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape?
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In article <1995Jul15.202441.4239@clari.net>, agonzalez@clari.net (Amy González) writes:
> Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up.
> Right at 02:14 in 'Memory Hatch', she stops singing completely and just stares directly into camera 2.

Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly.

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