Analogue Satellite TV Zapping bandscan 1993 Europe 3m polarmount dish (Vintage TV clips test cards)
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- This is a VCR-recording of an analogue Satellite TV bandscan made back in 1993 (2nd of March, thank you all for accurate observations!) using a Manhattan 9000 satellite receiver and a 3 m aluminium, motorized and polarmounted satellite dish (Aerial AS30), location Europe, Scandinavia, SW-Finland.
Also some C-band received up here, even those signals were very weak when received long outside of the targeted footprint. End part has some Astra satellite received by a 90 cm dish for comparsion.
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73s From Finland!
holmch66
Christer Holm
Turku - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Oh, the Wild West days of Satellite TV, where anyone with the knack & a good dish can find anything on the air. 📡
No Paki TV
Man, if there is one thing I get really nostalgic about is how manual and verbose it was using analog sat tv back in the day. I really miss it compared to how instant and perfect it is nowadays.
It's still like this if you're scanning all the satellites for free unscrambled channels on the KU band.
back in the day when TV was exciting :)
I remember scanning frequencies on Astra and Kopernikus in the early 90s and the test transmissions from the new Astra satellites in the mid 90s
So in 1993, the entire European sky was ca. 350 channels that you could surf through in 12 minutes... Not much more that you now get from an average cable provider...
I vaguely remember watching analog satellite in friends' houses around that era, as a small child. I don't think anybody had such fancy positioners though - by aligning my memories with the records we have now, I think 19.2E and perhaps 16E or later 13E was everything. As a kid who only had terrestrial TV (2, later 6 channels), I was still mesmerised by the seemingly never ending channel list.
I only got my own access to an actual satellite dish in 2018, long after analog is gone. On digital, there are of course thousands of channels, but a much greater percentage is encrypted; among the FTA ones, there's many more throwaway ones, so the number of channels actually worth watching is not much bigger than back then - they are just much harder to find. And a digital "channel encrypted" message is much less fascinating than actually seeing the analog scrambling on screen.
So yeah. Thanks for preserving the nostalgia for an era I could not live in full for myself.
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Here ppl didn't care that much about satellite TV until the 2000s. Even in the 80s we had 2 of our local TV channels and about a dozen Italian channels, depending on the weather.
@@fungo6631 From what I understand, state monopolies on TV broadcasting were the norm in Europe until the late 80s / early 90s, on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Here in Poland we had 2 channels of state-owned TV in the communist era; by the mid-90s there were about 10 nationwide channels broadcasting on either terrestrial or satellite, before the number skyrocketing with the dawn of specialty channels in the early 2000s.
In the 90s people who installed satellite tuners could mostly receive foreign channels, half of them in German, some in English or perhaps Italian. I bet that most couldn't understand a word. But even without understanding, it was something so different to what people were used to from the communist times that people were mesmerized by the glimpse of a better world. A world that would eventually come to us, but we had to wait a couple more years. And you could earnestly watch some sports channels like Eurosport or DSF, or distract kids (like me back then) with Cartoon Network or RTL2 - we would barely pay attention to what's being said anyway, so foreign language wasn't a big deal.
@@kFY514
I was talking about the situation in modern day coastal Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. We had 2 programs from TV Zagreb, while the rest was all Italian channels. Italian channels were receivable in my city since the 50s. By the 80s you could receive about a dozen Italian channels. Again, the quality depended on your location and weather. Generally, rainy weather gave best results.
In Italy the RAI monopoly vanished in the late 70s, first on cable TV and then on terrestrial TV, but only for regional and local broadcasters. Though, some aspiring national TV stations circumvented it by using local TV stations to broadcast their program.
By the mid 80s proper national coverage was legalized for private TV stations.
@@kFY514 In the 80s, commercial tv slowly started getting legalized throughout Europe, ofcourse Luxembourg already had RTL for decades and the British had ITV and Channel 4. When France and Germany also allowed it, other nations started following suit. State tv monopolies were also effectively banned by EU legislation in the 90s.
4:45 this is a polish station Polsat, it still operates to this day as a not only satellite station but also over the air and cable. They also are it's own satellite provider called Polsat Box (previously Cyfrowy Polsat)
1:45 Based on this part, I know that it was recorded between 5PM and 6PM GMT+1. That's the "Vijf Uur Show" (Five O'clock Show).
YO SQUIRREL MONKEEEEEE
having satellite tv was what rich people had in the 90s, i remember by aunt who had a nicer house in the forests of norcal had big satellite and tv big screen tva nd walk down living room and we could watch tv shows in the future eastern time
Wow! What a time capsule! Thanks for sharing!
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Cool sogar eine Infotafel von RTL2 mit dem Start am 6 März 1993.👍
Stunning upload, takes me right back. Thanks!
Nostalgia at its finest back from the mid nineties. Layout and channels exactly how I remember 😍
I used to install 1.8m moterised dishs in Newcastle UK
I had a Rediffusion rsr50 back in 1989 there was lots of decoders back then
Great vid thanks
That is pretty big
Beautiful era. Many memories!!!
Ah yes, this looks very familiar - at least Astra and Hotbird which we received at home. And even back then some channels had their audio way too loud up to a point it starts to distort. Nice that you also included some radio channels! I also noticed some French-spoken channels were black and white. Those would be in the SECAM format. I guess the VCR couldn't deal with that. I always liked satellite tv because it offered much more than cable tv would - let alone ether tv. It somehow felt like you had access to channels you 'weren't supposed to have' which I very much appreciated. In most European countries, state television was protected at all costs not giving a dime about what the people who funded them actually wanted to see. To finally see some competition for them by channels not bound by politicians or religion was a very welcome relief. Nowadays many commercial stations are just a cynical excuse to show advertising and state tv is often downright propaganda for the powers that be. I wonder how the tv landscape will look like 10 to 20 years from now as we are already full in the streaming era.
and that’s why pirate radio still a thing
Hey, thanks for uploading this video. It's really fascinating for me to watch.
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I was very happy to see this old tv stations.
Thank you for your nice comment :-)
In Chile (Televisión Nacional de Chile/TVN Chile) Therefore, analog satellite television was still used until 2005. To repeat its signal from Santiago, oh, another city, for example, Arica. (You can still see the Huge C-band antennas)
Nice band scan because memories come up it was a nice time. Mtv, Raiuno, premiere
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Thank you for this very enjoyable upload! I would love to see more programs from your satellite dish if you have them, and the time to upload them, please. Thanks!
This is incredible stuff. Almost the same channel line up we had on our Sky box.
Also, I remember MTV going mad about that Bowie album. Was this then early Summer ‘93?
Thank you so much for sharing.
2:55 That was scary!
A scrambled analog cable tv station
no, 09:40 was really scary
3:58 SECAM Format and bass boosted
Nice vintage Analogue Bandscan of Satellite TV :) Thanks for sharing 73!
Thank for your nice comment!
@@koekone Hi my friend, thanks for sharing the memories :) I started having interest in Satellite Television back in 2010 when HD television was started to have its uptake and DVB-S2 was coming in place. Gained interest when pointing the 1 Meter Dish towards Eutelsat 28.5 and in between Astra 2A/2B which had UK Channels and even to Badr and Hotbird. Cheers 73!
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Digital e geçmeden önce uydudan kanal yakalamanın kolay olduğu yıllar. TRT int, TGRT, Kanal 6, Star TV , Show TV, Teleon , HBB , Avrupa ya yayın yaptığımız yıllar (🇹🇷). Şu anda 31.2 derecede Türksat 5A var fakat içinde yayın yok yayın yapsa Almanya dan yine izlenirdi. Tabi video nun çekildiği yıllarda kendi uydumuz yok Avrupa da 5-6 tane uyduya yayın veriyormuşuz. Şimdi Horbird te bile yayınımız yok.
In the early 1990s I had several receivers but a couple of motorized systems like the pace IRD 9200 with matching dish positioner & a 1.5 meter offset dish in the garden. I used various decoders most pirate. I remember Intelsat & Eutelsat & the various news feeds. I had JVC multistandard TV with various PAL, SECAM NTSC & colour system 4.43 & 5.58 MHz So SECAM & NTSC with Colour & NTSC stable picture.
Then you had a pretty sweet set-up for the time!
9:26 this was the channel glitch of 1993.
3:04 Wow i remember this (///) France Telecom Feeds channels and GlobeCast ) :D
Thank you for your interest and a nice comment :-)
Brings back memories I had a 90cm Gregorian dish at that time.
11:52 I remember that channel.I’m from Russia
2:29 nthats where wii weather was inspired from
Channel listing
0:00 MTV Europe
0:02 VOX
0:08 Sky One
0:10 Sky News
0:14 Sky Movies
0:17 The Movie Channel
0:23 TV Asia
0:28 UK Gold
0:35 EuroSport
0:41 The Children's Channel/NHK
0:47 CNN
0:51 RTL Plus
0:56 Sat1
0:58 DSF
1:00 Pro7
1:03 ARD 1 Plus
1:05 3Sat
1:08 Nederland 3
1:10 BBC World Service
1:12 RTL4
1:15 Premiere (Scrambled)
1:17 Teleclub (Scrambled)
1:20 Cinemanía (Scrambled)
1:22 Documanía (Scrambled)
1:25 Sky Specials (?) (Blocked)
1:29 More MTV Europe
1:33 FilmNet (No signal)
1:35 TV1000 (No signal)
1:36 TV3 Sweden (No signal)
1:37 TV3 Norway (No signal)
1:40 Power FM
1:43 Radio Luxemburg
1:46 Sky Radio
1:48 Hit Radio
1:51 RTL4 Radio
1:54 Radio RAI
1:58 Radio Sweden
2:06 Super Channel
2:09 TV5 France
2:12 (Feed) PTT-Telecom Netherlands
2:14 MBC
2:17 ARD 1
2:20 Deutsche Welle English
2:23 EuroSport
2:25 FilmNet (Audio only)
2:27 EuroNews
2:29 News feed
2:32 Unknown
2:34 ARD 2
2:36 Feed (No picture nor audio)
2:39 Brussels news feed
2:42 Feed (No picture, inintelligible audio)
2:43 VisNews (No signal)
2:45 Voice of America Europe (Audio only)
2:47 Radio Gold
2:50 (Left Channel) Deutschlandfunk (Right Channel) BBC Radio West Scottland
2:52 Voice of America International (Audio only)
2:57 Reuters Jerusalem news feed
3:04 ITN News feed
3:06 MAC (European HD Analog Broadcast Standard) feed
I'm so grateful and actually on a binge watch of Astra satellite surfing in the 90s , but was wondering how did people think back in those days to record there channel surfing? We never knew sites like TH-cam to share would ever exist back then to share channel surfing.
Good question, I just remember putting my VCR to record a casual channel swapping, just for my own references. As you mentioned, that time (1993) I could not even imagine to later share it on youtube :-)
In those days, many people who were into satellite tv reception were also gearheads, fascinated by the technology itself just as much as the opportunity to receive extra channels. So it wouldn't be that unnatural for them to record their channel surfing on a videotape. It's just that most of these recordings haven't survived the thirty years since then, so we'd better be grateful for the ones that did!
Good times, these days there are thousands of channels and nothing to watch.
I still have my 3.1m /10ft C/Ku dish in the backyard. Still functional.
CMT and CNN was on 34.5 or 37.5 deg west, Orion.
The French channels M6, TF1, FR2, FR3 and Cinq were on 5 deg west.
1 deg west and 5 deg east had the D2Mac channels from Norway, Sweden and Danmark....Europcrypt decoder was needed and well worth the money.
Arabsat on 26 deg east had lots of C-Band channels from the Middle East.
40.5 deg west had South American channels
68,5 deg east PanamSat, one of my favorites, had MTV Asia and lots of Indian channels.
36 deg east had the Russian channels.
African channels were on 1 deg west on C band and I think on 12.5 deg west....Tele Sahel. But I am not sure.
The standard in Germany was 19.2 deg east and 13 deg east, Astra and Eutelsat (called Hotbird today) respectively.
Thank for your nice comment! Still functional 10ft dish, true dedication! Kudos!
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73s from Finland, holmch66
These were the days of satellite tv and the American tv Comedies were a lot better than now a days
4:48 Duna Televízió
The first Hungarian satellite television. On November 1, 1992, the test broadcasts of Duna Television started three hours a day, and then on December 24, at 5 pm, it started its regular broadcast on the Eutelsat II F3 satellite 11,5959 GHz, H.
This actually might be from 1993, thank you for your interest and a nice comment :-) EDIT: The recording date was 2nd of March, 1993. Description and links are now UPDATED with some contemporary satellite footprint maps! :-)
This is like real-life "Interdimensional Cable"
Wow, thank you !
I miss the old channel zapping with the static between channels and scrambled channels
4:07 Kanal 6 turk
4:25 HBB turk
5:03 TGRT turk
3:28 Shov turk
3:31 Star 1 turk
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Teleon da TÜRK
On witch Satellite ?
1993 yılı sanırım. Bende Hotbird, eutelsat16,Türksat. Zaping kaydetmiştim. 1997 yılına ait
I ENJOYED THIS!!!!!!!..,I remember this life.
Good idea to tape it. I had EchoStar 5500 with 1.3 motor hh, from Tokio 63 east to Americans 45 west
hi !
and thank you very much for that vidéo...
I was wondering,: have you got good quality filmnet logo ?(with stéréo sound )
best regards from france .....
Definitely a lot from Astra. Particularly those Canal+ channels from Spain are a giveaway along with the German channels. Also: Premiere and Teleclub, while using the same Syster encryption as Cinemanía and Documanía did, they never scrambled the audio.
2:18 Another slightly interesting thing - I think this is a short-lived feed on Eutelsat 13°E that existed in early 1993, to provide the master feed of the German first programme, Das Erste to the public broadcaster in three of the new eastern Länder - MDR. I guess it would have been showing this testcard at that time of evening (17.40) because regional programming went out between around 17.30 and 20.00.
yeah, it's just like what the major US networks do. they have a main network feed that is sent out to local affiliates (some even have separate feeds for the different timezones) to be able to carry network programming. and when there is no programming on the network feed, it will show a test pattern.
in English
10:25 piece of live broadcast of Channel 1 Ostankino (Russia) was captured, wonderful! Interesting that everything in this video from Russia and cis is black and white because they broadcast in SECAM, so I guess this satellite receiver could not show colour in that system
Hello and thank you for your comment! Or maybe the it was the VCR (Video Casette Recorder) that could not record the baseband video SECAM colour carrier info, or later the capture card, when digitizing the VHS-tape. Good observation! Same problem too with the French Telecom 12,5 GHz-band channels on this same tape.
When live those days, I got the SECAM-colours on my Salora K70 Stereo TV (from the Manhattan 9000 Satellite Receiver SCART-video output), that had a SECAM-module. The other video output fed simultaneously the JVC HR-D370E Hi-Fi Stereo VCR.
73s from Finland, holmch66
@@koekone even if vcr could record secam, i dunno if they were capable of detecting it on-the-fly and adapt accordingly, as this is one recording, not many short ones....
i also don't know if "multi-system" vcrs were oriented toward recording different systems, i would guess they were more about playback of most norms....
seems this one could do both
www.google.com/amp/s/www.porterelectronics.com/amp/panasonic-ag-w1-vhs-world-wide-hi-fi-vhs-vcr-recorder/
but even then i doubt it could switch systems during one recording...
Live broadcast of the Ostankino channel is at 11:53. And at 10:25 is Ostankino feed which could have been in PAL.
Excellent 5*
0:18 o.O
10:52 Is that a very faint TVE1 Canary Islands feed on 34.5W C Band? Can just make out what looks like the 'TVE' logo in the bottom right.
Yes, it is, great odservation :-)
@@koekone Ah amazing! Very interesting to see reception of this from back then. I've always been curious about how they got TVE to the Canary Islands in the days before Hispasat.
7:14 Fréquence Mousquetaires, la radio interne des magasins Intermarché.
Il y avait aussi Fréquence But à l’époque! J’aimerais bien la réécouter quelque part...
I agree
0:04 Doo-too-too
0:07 Doo-too-too
1:47 woah that 1993 euro hits techno radio over ninja turtles is soo coool maaaan
It's 2 Unlimited - Maximum Overdrive. That music on a radio feed accompanying a tv station showing the Turtles - it doesn't get more 90s than that.
0:52
Married... With Children is my favorite show and I love Peggy Bundy so much!!!
Episode: s2 ep16 Master The Possibilities aired on February 7, 1988
Marié... With Children est mon émission préférée et j'aime tellement Peggy Bundy !!
Épisode : s2 ep16 Master The Possibilities diffusé le 7
février 1988
What a cool tv series, TMNT and Married with children :D .
10:25 фрагмент эфира 1 канал Останкино, который транслировался по спутнику, раритетный улов!!! дальше также прием уэит с помехами, видимо на том же спутнике транслировался фид. Интересно, что все в чб - видимо, не было поддержки secam (который тогда юзали Франция, все страны СНГ и некоторое время Балтии, а также соц.блока) в некоторых спутниковых ресиверах?
Я знал, что в этой записи будет что-то русскоязычное! Что до фрагмента на 10:24, то, очевидно, что это обычный технический канал-перегон контента ЕВС
some 90's satellite footprint maps added
The OSD looks like the Kathrein branded satellite receiver, I can't remember the model number of this unit, but it looks really similar to it...
My dad uad a morozized dish and an FTA reciever, i recall a lotnof arabic channels airing above Hungary
I remember this vfrom 1990.
2:58 shit so creepy
PLEASE WAIT
1993, when my country split:-(
C-Czechoslovakia
I know it's a different group of satellites than what we have here in North America (C-Band), but how come C-Band satellites were limited to 24 channels per satellite, where as here, you can see channel 54, channel 82, etc.?
Was Sky UK using smart cards in analogue set-top boxes? Or these channels were available for free on any analogue set-top box?
This is from 1993 not 1992 because Polsat, RTL2 or DSF trasmitted in 1993
Yes, this actually might be from 1993. Thank you!
@@koekone This must be between March 1st and 4th 1993 as Screensport is showing the same as Eurosport - so that would have to have been one of the four days after the merger where they were dual-illuminating. (Screensport’s transponder was taken over by RTL2 from March 5th)
EDIT: March 2nd according to the testcard at 2:19
@@MrAntbox Great observation, thank you for note!! How could I miss that myself, now I have corrected the recording time. Many thanks! Description and links are also now UPDATED with some contemporary satellite footprint maps! :-)
73s from Finland, holmch66
2:58 Ngl, that's kinda unsettling
3:59 What's that nice song in sat e5, channel 81 et 1??? I like that song!!!😁😁😁
Its greece Television
I mean the song name
0:23 what movie is that and say Go Away Go Away.
Excellent stuff - what satellite is 10:48 from? I guess one of the Gorizont ones.
Yes that looks like the ORT1 test pattern from these days. Probably 11 or 14 deg west.
Thank you very much for this Video too! :-) as Teenager i havn't a such Sat-Equiment as you. I've just ku-band reception.;-)
Thank you for your interest and a nice comment :-)
شكرا جزيلا على هذا الفديو الرائع
9:57 TV Algeria
you found italian channels, u found rai 1 and rai 2, they transmitt here in italy and they make rlly good programs
3:13 definitely didn't expect RAI to be there
In india by the time 1993 upa govt introduced analog tv
I think the Video is from 1993 or 1994. Because the Video content Euronews and ARD from Astra 1B
Yes, it actually might be from 1993. Good odservation, thank you, info corrected. Description and links are also now UPDATED with some contemporary satellite footprint maps! :-)
73s from Finland, holmch66
these are the times where tve shows up in this video:
3:25 (tve internacional)
3:40 (this one doesn't really count cuz you can't really make out what it is, but at least you can see the name)
10:52 (tve1 Canarias)
The second one is TVE2, maybe was a relay for the Canary Islands
2:10 Warum hat Das Erste hier nicht gesendet?
half of the stuff shown there was rebroadcasted by romanian cable providers in the 90s, especially the german TV channels and MTV.
Childhood....
7:29 Happy Days lol
03:28 SHOW TV
03:31 STAR TV
0:08 The censored Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles), due to the UK having fears of Ninjas at the time.
10:26 1 канал Останкино
11:52 1 канал Останкино
9:55 This is Algerian television (ENTV i guess)
4:31 RTP Internacional appears
4:45 Polsat jumpscare
4:27 song or series?
Alls channel are in color( PAL), except France ( SECAM ), who is Black and Withe ! Except TV5 Monde Europe in PAL colour.
Your VHS maid record the SECAM color in MESECAM modus.
M6 is SECAM
4:25
RTT
11:27 TV Dubai
6:39 weird sounds 7:04
04:03 which TV is it?
serbian rts 2?
@@mzaklanc4371 It looks like RTS SAT and the audio is from Radio Belgrade
It"s looks latin, rts did the cyrillic.
Sind das alles verschlüsselte Programme?😮
Anyone knows the minute 9:12 show name? I thought it was a fever dream
Sesamstraße
6:12 Discovery Channel
А что делает канал останкино(Первый канал) 10:27
Это спутниковая антенна
Еще было на экскурсии был аналоговый спутник 2008 был первый канал и НТВ и Бибигон так что не удивляйся
1:44-2:54 Song?
0:03 BaBiEs
6:31 PVSC 2 NTSC
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