--- Forwarded Message from Marti Morandi <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:00:15 -0700
>From: Marti Morandi <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: WITS
>To: [log in to unmask]
>CC: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>,        MEDIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: TV5
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Sue DeHut requested me to share with these lists results re TV5.

Willamette has a TV5 DishNetwork dish up and running.  Although I do not
have the numbers listed below, we accessed the signal by pointing the dish
at the western satellite rather than the eastern one which was too low on
the horizon.  According to our Language Center Director, the signal is
coming in loud and clear.

Marti

Betty Woerner wrote:

> Please excuse the cross-posting.
>
> Do any of you located on the west coast get TV5, the French-language
> station from Quebec?  We are looking into buying a satellite (from
> Dishnetwork) for our French House for this.  I tried this about 4
> years ago, however, and it turned out that the satellite that TV5 was
> running on (148) was too far east to be able to be picked up here.  This
> time, the salesmen are again very anxious to make a sale, but noone can
> tell us if this problem still remains.  Does anyone have any experience
> with this?  Dishnetwork's webpage indicates that TV5 runs on both
> satellites 148 and 61.5.  Is 61.5 accessible from the west coast?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Betty Woerner
> Media Librarian
> Reed College
> Portland, OR