New TV.

[kb2crk]

Hello.

Reread this.
Islamic TV is FTA.
AFRTS is a microwave point to point feed.
We have these antennas that look like a pole with a bunch of washers spaced along and a white hexagonal box on the end.
Power is provided by a walwart to the coax and to the decoder.
California Amplifier.
One is the device and the other is another.
Couple that with 2 outside TV antennas and you have it, all connected to a Zenith Space Command TV and Zinwell digital converter through the TV decoder loop.
Yes, a 19 inch CRT TV, PiP even!
The TV is a Heath/Zenith SpacePhone unit, really neat in that it has a speakerphone.

Hello

And you wonder why the black helicopters are circling you now?
I told them to after reading this post. Anyone with an islamic tv spacephone must be some kind of cow thieving terrorist...

[W7XF]

Hello

And you wonder why the black helicopters are circling you now?
I told them to after reading this post. Anyone with an islamic tv spacephone must be some kind of cow thieving terrorist...

+1000

[W4RLR]

I would be interested to know just what feed you are looking at for AFRTS with a microwave shot in Texas.

AFRTS Broadcast Center is in Riverside, California at March Air Reserve Base. American Forces information Service and DVIDS, the Defense Video and Imagery Distribution system, has a satellite and fiber distribution hub which provides news feeds to civilian media, in Atlanta. http://www.dvidshub.net/

Just what you are looking at I'm not sure, but there are no microwave feeds from AFRTS in your area. The AFN signal is encrypted, and even being in the military won't get you authorization for private use unless you are overseas. I'd love to get it myself just because I worked there once. But no dice.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

Very simple, RTFM!
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/BulletinPopup.aspx?b=871
http://media.myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/..._i_get_AFN.pdf
Yes, it is encrypted, Cyberpoint decoder.
And, I get all of 3 channels, one being the rebroadcast of Voice of America, the only channel of interest to me.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/
If it were not for the fact that it is free I would not bother.
To be blunt, the BBC gives me more useful information than the USA media outlets, so I really could care less about this one feed.
For information about SaudiTV, I tune SaudiTV.
For Iranian I tune Iranian.
I want to know from the official sources as quickly as I can, failing that, BBC does an excellent job of distilling the news "From around the world".
And to show how absolutely important television is to me, I am not sure how long this was out, it could have been as long as a few months, I do not know.
It was sometime after 9/11/2009 and before 9/8/2010, that I am sure of.
Again, non-issue, I have no plans on turning it on anytime soon. ;)

[n2ize]

Ah yes, an American Icon.

Not to be confused with the great Madman Munce.

[W3MIV]

Hey, Geo! Thanx for that Muntz video. Priceless.

[kb2crk]

Hello.

Very simple, RTFM!
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/BulletinPopup.aspx?b=871
http://media.myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/..._i_get_AFN.pdf
Yes, it is encrypted, Cyberpoint decoder.
And, I get all of 3 channels, one being the rebroadcast of Voice of America, the only channel of interest to me.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/
If it were not for the fact that it is free I would not bother.
To be blunt, the BBC gives me more useful information than the USA media outlets, so I really could care less about this one feed.
For information about SaudiTV, I tune SaudiTV.
For Iranian I tune Iranian.
I want to know from the official sources as quickly as I can, failing that, BBC does an excellent job of distilling the news "From around the world".
And to show how absolutely important television is to me, I am not sure how long this was out, it could have been as long as a few months, I do not know.
It was sometime after 9/11/2009 and before 9/8/2010, that I am sure of.
Again, non-issue, I have no plans on turning it on anytime soon. ;)

Hello

And you wonder why the black helicopters are always around you?
You do know that the nice young men in their clean white coats will be coming to give you a jacket that lets you hug yourself.

[W4RLR]

Clarify something, Cowthief. Are you listening to audio subcarriers or watching video. The links you cited ALL say that the video is encrypted. You CAN listen to AFRTS Voice Channel on SSB shortwave, that's what I can do in my own shack. But as for WATCHING AFN on the feed from Riverside to Andover, Maine, where the signal hops the Atlantic to Germany for a feed to the Hotbird satellite, it's encrypted.