From iramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Sep 21 02:31:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!iramirez From: iramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ines Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Sep21.023136.1901@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 02:31:36 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. 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. Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. My tape is 3rd generation and starting to degrade. Does anyone have a 1st gen copy from a Betamax or U-matic deck? -- Ines Ramírez -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From bandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Sep 22 10:33:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!bandersson From: bandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bruno Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Sep22.103336.7951@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:33:36 GMT References: <1995Sep21.023136.1901@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep21.023136.1901@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, iramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ines Ramírez) writes: > Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Bruno Andersson | bandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: F6B8 6C79 A715 723E "Keep the channels open." From krobertson@cmu.edu Sat Sep 23 02:18:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!krobertson From: krobertson@cmu.edu (Karen Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Sep23.021836.1709@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 02:18:36 GMT References: <1995Sep21.023136.1901@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Sep22.103336.7951@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.103336.7951@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, bandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bruno Andersson) writes: > Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. I remember watching this on our family's Radiant TV console. The picture tube hummed whenever Nova hit high notes. -- Karen Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."