Michael Chare wrote:
"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Michael Chare
Munderscor writes

Classical FM is only decent channel missing

It is however available by satellite. There are also a couple of
good German stations: Bayern 4 Klassik and HR Klassik on Astra 1

Yep excellent except that Radio 3 and Classic FM are over on ASTRA at
28.2 east whilst Bayern and HR are on ASTRA 19.2 bit of a bummer but
nowt two LNB's and an offset arm and Diseq switch won't sort out

Get another on Hotbird at 13 east and even more comes out of the wood
work. France Musique even, at 256 K BBC please note...some hope..

France Musique is also on Astra1 - I dont know the bit rate - or how
to find what the bit rate is!


I saved these pages to disc, but the website's not there any more, so I
don't know if the bit rates are still correct, but it's listed as
192kbps:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/As..._Bit_Rates.htm

Also see:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/Ho..._Bit_Rates.htm


However there is still a lot of snobbishness around having a
satellite dish. Our neighbour loves Jazz and when I told him that he
could get around 3 good Jazz stations on sat, he looked downcast
when I told him he would "have" to have a dish!.....

People associate satellite TV with Sky (and maybe football).

Not helped by the BBC 'how to get satellite' web page which says
'call sky'. (Not such a bad deal if you dont mind the phone
connection). There are very few satellite equipment shops. Very
little advertising of the Non sky options and what there is tends to
be for porn.


ITV look like they're going to sever their ties with Sky's encryption
and go free-to-air, which would make a BBC-led Freesat platform
feasible, although it'll take quite a bit of advertising to change the
general public's perception that satellite = Sky. Fingers crossed...


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Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

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