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Subject: NASA Select - when is it on?
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Date: 16 Sep 88 01:12:05 GMT
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    Our communications director has agreed to let me set up the
department satellite dish to receive NASA Select for the STS-26
launch (yay!). Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any activity
on the channel to verify we are receiving it correctly. Can anyone
suggest a time in the near future when there will definitely be
activity on NASA Select, so I can verify everything is working
*before* launch coverage begins?

    Also, an earlier posting by Peter Yee mentioned how to find
Select:

>     Activities to be covered by NASA Select television (carried
>on Satcom F-2R, transponder 3, at 72 degrees west longitude)
>include the crew's arrival and departure.  On Sept. 8, NASA

    I believe this is incorrect; at least, our cable schedule shows
'Nasa Contract' being on transponder 13, and nothing on transponder 3.
I haven't found any coverage on either transponder yet.

    Thanks!
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``Thus Mathematics helps / our brains and hands and feet
      and can make / a race of supermen out of us.''
	- The Education of T. C. Mits