From tfischer@cern.ch Sun Jun 11 07:40:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!tfischer From: tfischer@cern.ch (Thiago Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jun11.074018.8981@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 07:40:18 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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. Did anyone in Hamburg actually attend in person? The hall looked completely empty except for camera crews. -- Thiago Fischer -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Do not worship the copy." From mschneider@stanford.edu Sun Jun 11 09:54:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!mschneider From: mschneider@stanford.edu (Mike Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jun11.095418.8316@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 09:54:18 GMT References: <1995Jun11.074018.8981@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun11.074018.8981@cern.ch>, tfischer@cern.ch (Thiago Fischer) writes: > 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. I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Mike Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0