a yankee living in the hind end of the bible belt
some people are like slinkys, not really good for anything, but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
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.
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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. ;)
Hey, Geo! Thanx for that Muntz video. Priceless.
a yankee living in the hind end of the bible belt
some people are like slinkys, not really good for anything, but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
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.
73 de Richard W4RLR
Southern born, Southern bred, centrist conservative.
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Retired U.S. Air Force NCO
Member, Sons of Confederate Veterans
The Ancient Order of Turtles
ARRL, SPAR, Six Meters Worldwide, Chattanooga ARC
ARRL Accredited VE