Adam792
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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
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I was reading the other day about some of the French territories in the Pacific Ocean (New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia). This led on to me finding out how they receive French television there. In French Polynesia there's a pay satellite provider called Vini, which carries most of the mainstream commercial French channels (on a 12-odd hour delay to match Paris time up with the local timezones!) as well as the France Télévisions channels including the local Polynésie La 1ère service that also go out on the French overseas territories DVB-T multiplexes.
These are all carried on Intelsat 18 at 180ºE, and it looks as if the beam they're on which covers French Polynesia also covers the West Coast of the US! I was just wondering out of curiosity - a question most probably for @Terryl as I think you're located in the Western US if I remember rightly - if you can actually receive these services there in the US?
They're in European polarisation (H/V rather than L/R circular), on 11075V and 11155V DVB-S2 8PSK, mostly encrypted except for a few channels which are in the clear (LCP/Public Sénat - French parliament channel, Franceinfo: - French public 24 hour news channel, and Tahiti Nui TV - French Polynesian local channel which also goes out on digital terrestrial in Polynesia, along with several French public radio stations). They will all be in the 50Hz TV standard (576i50).
There's another transponder on 11155H which carries all of the France Télévisions channels including the La 1ère channels for all three Pacific territories, but this is listed as being on a separate beam which only covers New Caledonia and Eastern Australia/NZ for smaller dishes.
Amazing really how much of the World gets covered by mainstream French channels due to how integrated their overseas territories are! As an aside I was in the Eastern Caribbean at the start of the year and visited Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint Martin. Very surreal to sit on a Caribbean beach and listen to France Inter on FM in Martinique being broadcast live via satellite with the full RDS data getting output (along with the Paris RDS time, five hours ahead of the Caribbean!) exactly the same as in metropolitan France.
These are all carried on Intelsat 18 at 180ºE, and it looks as if the beam they're on which covers French Polynesia also covers the West Coast of the US! I was just wondering out of curiosity - a question most probably for @Terryl as I think you're located in the Western US if I remember rightly - if you can actually receive these services there in the US?
They're in European polarisation (H/V rather than L/R circular), on 11075V and 11155V DVB-S2 8PSK, mostly encrypted except for a few channels which are in the clear (LCP/Public Sénat - French parliament channel, Franceinfo: - French public 24 hour news channel, and Tahiti Nui TV - French Polynesian local channel which also goes out on digital terrestrial in Polynesia, along with several French public radio stations). They will all be in the 50Hz TV standard (576i50).
There's another transponder on 11155H which carries all of the France Télévisions channels including the La 1ère channels for all three Pacific territories, but this is listed as being on a separate beam which only covers New Caledonia and Eastern Australia/NZ for smaller dishes.
Amazing really how much of the World gets covered by mainstream French channels due to how integrated their overseas territories are! As an aside I was in the Eastern Caribbean at the start of the year and visited Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint Martin. Very surreal to sit on a Caribbean beach and listen to France Inter on FM in Martinique being broadcast live via satellite with the full RDS data getting output (along with the Paris RDS time, five hours ahead of the Caribbean!) exactly the same as in metropolitan France.
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