From news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!nebulus!ve6mgs!usenet Tue Sep 21 20:17:32 EET DST 1993 Article: 2274 of rec.radio.info Xref: news.cs.tut.fi rec.radio.shortwave:22942 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:355 rec.radio.amateur.misc:39220 rec.radio.info:2274 Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!nebulus!ve6mgs!usenet Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 14:07:46 GMT Message-ID: <$scdx2187@ampr.org> From: p00489@psilink.com (Terry M.Stader - KA8SCP) Subject: SCDX 2187 Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.info Followup-To: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc Approved: rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca Lines: 591 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: MediaScan :: :: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS :: :: from Radio Sweden :: :: Number 2187--Sept. 21, 1993 :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden. This week's bulletin was written by George Wood. Packet Radio BID SCDX2187 All times UTC unless otherwise noted. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORDIC MEDIA NEWS: RADIO SWEDEN--Beginning September 26th, Radio Sweden will be broadcasting in English: To Europe: 17:15 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz 18:30 hrs and 21:30 hrs on 1179, 6065, and 9655 kHz 22:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz 23:30 hrs on 1179 kHz To East Africa and the Middle East: 18:30 hrs on 15145 kHz To Asia and the Pacific: 12:30 hrs on 15240, 17740, and 17865 kHz 23:30 hrs on 11910 kHz 01:30 hrs on 9695 and 11695 kHz To North America: 13:30 and 14:30 hrs on 15240 and 17870 kHz 02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 9695 and 11650 kHz To Latin America: 00:30 hrs on 9695 and 11650 kHz The broadcasts at 17:15, 18:30, 21:30 (weekends only), and 22:30 hrs are relayed on satellite on Astra transponder 26 (Sky Movies Gold) audio 7.74 MHz and Tele-X on 12.207 GHz (TV4) audio 7.38 MHz. SWEDEN--The big media news in Sweden is the impending industrial action at the public service Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, home of Radio Sweden. Recently the corporation signed a new contact with the Swedish Journalists Union. But negotiations broke down with the union representing other employees. Last week the union officially anounced a ban on overtime by more than 1000 members, beginning on September 23rd. The ban covers most employees working for Swedish Television in Gothenburg and Malmo, as well as all sound and service technicians working for the Swedish Radio, including the local radio stations. (TT) During previous industrial action, news programs and Radio Sweden were allowed to continue without hindrance. It remains to be seen if that will be the case starting Thursday. TV4--Sweden's Broadcast Council has once again ruled that the country's only terrestrial commercial channel, TV4, has violated its licence by broadcasting advertising in the middle of programs. It's the 8th time the board has ruled against the channel, which now says that it will stop the illegal practice next week. TV4 had appealed to the government to change the terms of its licence, but the government rejected the appeal in May. (TT) DECODERS--The Swedish government has also proposed a ban on pirate decoders to avoid paying for cable TV and radio. The ban would only apply to the manufacture, rental, and installation of such decoders, so private individuals would still be allowed to own pirate decoders. If passed by parliament, the ban would go into effect on January 1st. (TT) There's a lively business in pirate decoders in Sweden because of high cost of cable-TV. A basic package with 5 Swedish channels and the 5 or so most common English-language channels costs around twenty-five dollars a month from Stockholm's largest cable network. Swedish Telecom's network, the largest in the country, charges an extra 10 dollars a month for a mandatory decoder, with subscribers forced to rent extra decoders for extra outlets in their homes. By contrast, in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission recently passed new rules controlling cable rates, forcing many systems to lower their prices for the standard 30 to 46 channel packages. In northern California, for example, these now cost between twenty and twenty-three dollars a month. Also the charge for converter and decoder boxes have to be based on what those devices actually cost the cable operators, and operators can no longer change extra for homes with multiple outlets. ("Santa Rosa Press-Democrat") THOR--The pay-TV package on Norway's Thor satellite is now complete. MTV has joined CNN, Eurosport, FilmNet Movies, and a joint transponder combining Discovery and the Children's Channel. With the exception of FilmNet, which is in D2-MAC, these all use the obscure D-MAC standard, and all use the even more obscure Eurocypt S coding system. Although, so far only advertised in Norway, the Thor package is intended as well for Finland and northern Sweden, which have difficulty receiving Astra. ("Skyguide" and "SatNews") But Norwegian Telecom, which operates Thor, wants around 8 dollars a month for the service, without FilmNet, which costs extra. This may be more than many Scandinavians are willing to pay. In comparison, Sky's basic Multi- Channel package, with all these channels plus at least nine more, is available for 7 pounds, or around 10 dollars, a month. Meanwhile, in the United States, satellite subscription packages range from under nine dollars a month for 11 channels to 20 channel offerings for under 15 dollars and 31 channel packages with several film channels for 50 dollars a month. ("Satellite TV Weekly") EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS: MTV--MTV's move to Thor adds fuel to the speculation that the channel is planning to encrypt its Astra feeds in mid-1994 using Videocrypt. Previously these claims were denied by the company, even though when British Sky Broadcasting began advertising for its multichannel service it claimed that MTV would be included within the encryption package. MTV executives protested to British Sky Broadcasting and the advertisement was changed. According to "SatNews", engineering sources at MTV and News Datacom say that several Videocrypt encoders have been ordered by MTV. ("SatNews") MTV has also appeared on Eutelsat 2F1 on 11.658 GHz. The programming is currently identical to the Astra version, although in the future it is understood that this outlet will be used to offer specific programming (and advertising) to Germany. "Sky Guide" speculates that MTV's appearance on Eutelsat could also be to counter the future opposition of German youth channel "Viva", due to launch in October on the same satellite. ("Skyguide" and James Robinson) SKY CHANNELS TO EUROPE?--Now that the Sky Multi-Channel package is running, British Sky Broadcasting's owner Rupert Murdoch is planning to work with the German channel Pro 7 to launch a package of subscription satellite channels throughout Europe. The agreement, made at International Funkaustellung '93, is understood to pave the way for the marketing of six English language channels, initially in Germany, and eventually throughout Western Europe. ("Skyguide") SKY EXPANDS--Speaking in London recently, British Sky Broadcasting owner Rupert Murdoch also put an end to speculation by confirming his intent to launch a second sports channel on Astra. The second channel is very likely to become a testing ground for pay-per-view events, and according to "Sky Guide", is likely to be up and running in time for the next Premier League soccer football season. Murdoch's News International has also contracted NTL to join a group developing a multi-channel digital TV system for direct satellite reception in the home. NTL will develop the encoding, decoding and multiplexing technology. The eventual domestic receiver will be mass-produced under licence for the comsumer market in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. ("Skyguide") RED HOT TV--The pornography channel Red Hot Television, which is upliked from Denmark, has returned to the satellite airwaves, but not where it was expected. According to "Skyguide" RHTV was unable to secure its previous transponder on Eutelsat 2F1, and the channel is now broadcasting on a completely different satellite - Eutelsat 2F3, on 10.986 GHz. The channel is alternating between its existing SAVE encryption system, and new Videocrypt-compatible system "Enigma". ("Skyguide") TURNER BROADCASTING--The Cartoon Channel and TNT broadcast test transmissions on Astra 1C, transponder 37, before their September 17th launch. The channels will broadcast in English, French, Norwegian and Swedish, with a Spanish language service to follow by the end of 1994, possibly in line with a Spanish audio service for CNN International. French authorities are apparently unhappy at the prospect of these new channels broadcasting in the French language, apparently viewing the prospect as an invasion of French territory. The authorities and broadcasters have been lobbying to get the channel to drop the French audio, apparently unsuccessfully so far. The French cultural elite is protesting the broadcasts of Yoga Bear and Fred Flinstone in French as cultural imperialism. The crusade has brought together bitter political rivals from both left and right. The Paris daily "Le Figaro" quoted an unidentified Turner official as accusing the French authorities of attempted "ethnic cleansing" of the airwaves. ("Skyguide" and AP) FRANCE--Just weeks after MCM returned to TDF1, and viewers across Europe welcomed its return, comes the news that MCM will scramble its transmissions from October 15th. Subscriptions will be made available to European viewers, although pricing details are not known at this time. ("Skyguide") WORLD RADIO NETWORK--The long-awaited World Radio Network service of international broadcasters in English began tests on Astra on September 15th. They're using MTV's transponder 22, 11.538 GHz, audio 7.74 MHz. The official launch of the new service will be October 1st. The current relays of National Public Radio from the United States are being moved from Eutelsat. Joining them will be programs from American Public Radio and many international broadcasters. Here is the tentative weekday schedule (British local time): 05:00-05:30 Radio Canada International 05:30-06:00 BBC "Europe Today" 06:00-07:30 NPR "All Things Considered" 07:30-08:00 APR "Market Place" 08:00-09:00 Radio Australia 09:00-10:00 Radio Korea 10:00-10:30 Radio Moscow 10:30-11:30 Radio Netherlands 11:30-12:00 to be announced 12:00-12:30 Voice of Israel 12:30-13:00 WRN Information 13:00-15:00 NPR "Morning Edition" 15:00-15:30 Radio France International 15:39-16:00 Radio Finland 16:00-17:00 Radio Australia 17:00-18:00 APR "Monitor Radio" 18:00-18:30 to be announced 18:30-19:00 Radio Telefis Eireann (Ireland) 19:00-21:00 NPR "Talk of the Nation" 21:00-21:30 Swiss Radio International 21:30-22:00 BBC "Europe Today" 22:00-23:30 NPR "All Things Considered" 23:30-24:00 APR "Market Place" 00:00-01:00 APR "Monitor Radio" 01:00-02:30 NPR "All Things Considered" 02:30-03:30 Radio Netherlands 03:30-04:30 music 04:30-05:00 Vatican Radio The schedule varies somewhat on weekends and is subject to change. Note that Europe and Britain have the same local time between Sept. 26 and Oct. 24. (WRN) GERMANY--Managing Director Dieter Weirich announced at the Internationale Funkaustellung in Berlin on August 30th that Deutsche Welle TV will be expanding to 24 hour a day service from 1994. However, the expansion from 16 hours at present would oly be possible if ARD and ZDF agree to work together. (DPA via BBC Monitoring) One wonders what will happen to the American Worldnet programming, which shares the Deutsche Welle transponder on Eutelsat 2F1 (having been kicked off the French TV5 transponder for exactly the same reason)? PUBLICATIONS--Super Channel's Teletext satellite news service, "In Orbit", is now available to Astra viewers via UK Gold's teletext service. While UK Gold is scrambled, even viewers without a subscription can view the teletext. Weekly satellite news, updated every Tuesday, is available on page 333, with a letters section on 334. The content of the services vary slightly - Super Channel's version is consistently more critical of Astra and Sky, while the UK Gold version appears (at the moment) to be much more neutral. ("Skyguide") NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS: PARAMOUNT VIACOM INTERNATIONAL--In what will be the biggest media industry merger ever, Paramount Communications Inc. and Viacom Inc. have agreed on a 16.5 billion dollar merger plan. If completed it would signal the passing of the last of Hollywood's major studios to a new generation of corporate leaders. The new company will be the world's 5th largest media conglomerate, following Time Warner, Germany's Bertelsmann, Sony, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and pushing Capital Cities/ABC into 6th place. Paramount is the owner of a major Hollywood film and TV studio. Its 900 movie library includes "The Godfather", "Beverly Hills Cop", and "Indiana Jones." Among Paramount's TV productions are "Star Trek", "Murder She Wrote", and "Cheers". Viacom is the owner of satellite/cable TV channels MTV, VH-1, Showtime and Nickelodeon, as well as cable networks with more than 1 million subscribers. (AP and "Los Angeles Times") However, Turner Broadcasting is also reported to be weighing a bid for Paramount. (Bloomberg Business News) STAR TREK--Speaking of "Star Trek", with the shifting of Paramount's satellite feed channel from the Telstar 301 satellite to Telstar 302, transponder 3, here is the current feed schedule for the two popular science fiction programs "The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine" (Eastern Time): Saturdays: 10:00 AM DS9 4:00 PM DS9 7:00 PM TNG Sundays: 2:00 PM TNG 4:00 PM DS9 5:00 PM TNG "Satellite TV Weekly" also lists a TNG feed on Saturdays at 2:00 PM, but this has not been in evidence. ASIAN MEDIA NEWS: INDIA--A new 9 channel satellite television service to India is to be begin on January 1, 1994. The nine channels carried by the joint American-India network are to cover: religious and spiritual programming; politics; children's programming, entertainment, music and movies; sports; medicine, health, fitness and sex education; business and economy; and development, environment, and women's issues, science, and technology. Broadcasts are to be over two satellites, the Russian Statsionar 21 at 103 degrees East, and Asiasat. (PTI via BBC Monitoring) AMATEUR RADIO IN SPACE: MICROSATS--Ariane launch 59 is scheduled for Saturday, September 25th, between 01:27 and 01:45 hrs UTC. The main payload is the Franco-Swedish Spot- 3 satellite, but Ariane will also be carrying a number of small "micro-sats", several of which will be available for amateur radio operators. The most interesting is the Italian amateur radio satellite Itamsat, which will downlink both voice FM and digital packet radio signals on 435.867 and 435.822 MHz. The commercial Portuguese PoSat will downlink amateur radio signals on 435.250 or 435.275 MHz. Kitsat-B is similar to the first South Korean satellite, now in orbit as KO-23, with digital downlinks on 435.175 and 436.500 MHz. Finally, the American commercial satellite Eyesat-A will sometimes relay digital and FM voice amateur radio signals on 436.800 MHz. (Internet News via Kauto Huopio and "AMSAT-SM Newsletter") The Ariane launch will be relayed over some satellite links, and will certainly be carried by the Amsat network on many shortwave frequencies. SHORT AND MEDIUM WAVE AND DOMESTIC RADIO: ALBANIA--The Voice of America is using a medium wave transmitter in Albania on 1395 kHz to reach the former Yugoslavia. Serbian has beenheard at 03:45- 04:00 hrs, and Croatian at 04:30-05:00 hrs. Radio Tirana's scheduled 04:00- 04:15 hrs broadcast in German continues to be heard on this frequency. (BBC Monitoring) BRITAIN--The Radio Authority has awarded LBC's licence and has awarded it to London News Radio. London News Radio's Editor in Chief will be former LBC Managing Director Peter Thornton and the station will employ a number of former LBC staff. Its chairman is John Tusa, former boss of the BBC World Service and currently presenter of the One O'Clock News on BBC Television. The BBC did not know of his involvement until the announcement on Friday. LNR's backers are led by merchant bank Guiness Mahon and French media group Hachette. It will offer a rolling news format on its FM frequency, repeating every 20 minutes throughout the day. AM will be a mix of phone-ins, discussions and news similar to London Talkback Radio. It expects to employ around 160 staff, compared with the 120 currently employed by LBC. LNR will begin broadcasting in October 1994. Two new stations have been awarded licences. London Country Radio plans to launch in January and will broadcast on 1035 AM. It is backed by the Allied Radio Group. Sunrise Radio will expand Londonwide from their current West London operation. From early 1994 their Asian programming will be heard on the 1458 AM frequency currently used by GLR. Their existing licence for West London will be re-advertised later. Two further Londonwide licences are expected to be advertised in 1994, at the same time as those for Capital Radio's two frequencies are re-advertised. Unsuccessful applicants in the current round will be able to re-apply then without a further application fee. The licences for Jazz FM, Kiss FM, Melody Radio and Spectrum International were all retained by their respective companies. The BBC is expected to announce its decision on its proposed rolling news service later than originally planned. It had anticipated making an announcement in September as to whether the service would go ahead and on what frequency. However, it now seems likely that a decision will be held off until October or possibly November. Reports from BBC staffers suggest that a merger with Radio Five to form a news and sport network remains the most likely option. ("AM/FM" via Kauto Huopio) ESTONIA--Last time we reported on Estonia's closing its international service, although BBC Monitoring reports that Radio Tallinn programs are continuing on FM. Kauto Huopio reports that Estonia seems to be leaving medium wave. He says 1035, 1215, 1332 and 1512 kHz have been more or less quiet lately. Kauto says it is also rumoured that Estonia is moving their FM radio very rapidly to western FM Band, at first to 100-108 MHz and then to full 87.5-108 MHz. (Kauto Huopio, Finland) LATVIA--A new station calling itself Brivi Veji ("Free Winds") has been heard on 945 kHz. A relay of VOA Europe has been carried at 12:00 hrs. (BBC Monitoring) LIBERIA--Radio ELWA, the station in Monrovia operated by the Christian religious organization, the Sudan Interior Mission, has been heard again on 4760 kHz after a break of three years. It's been heard at 16:30-22:00 hrs and also announces a morning transmission starting at 06:00 hrs. (BBC Monitoring) LITHUANIA--Baltic Radio International in Lithuania, widely believed to be a chimera, has started building work at its new transmitter site near Butinges. BRI is to build six radio masts, a transmitter building, generator and official premises with a reserve studio, all costing 1,400,000 pounds. BRI programs will consist of pop music, with several minutes of advertisements every hour. (Lietuvos Rytas in FDXA "Euronews") As we reported last week, BRI is to use 684 kHz (and was to be on the air "this summer" according to General Manager Paul Rusling). NICARAGUA--Radio Sandino has moved from 760 kHz to a new and stronger transmitter on 740 kHz. (Radio Sandino via BBC Monitoring) NORWAY--The Norwegian student station UKE-Senderen, in Trondeheim, will be on the air again during the annual UKA festival, which this year is from the 22nd of October and until the 14th of November. The frequencies are 1485 kHz and 7245 kHz. (Jon Gunnar Solheim, via Internet News and Kauto Huopio) PALESTINE--According to Radwan Abu-'Ayyyash,chairman of the Social Solidarity Society, the Palestineans will launch regular radio and television broadcasts within four months of the implementation of self-rule in Gaza and Jericho. (BBC Monitoring) RUSSIA--Moscow has two different MW radio stations for motorists. Avtovolna is at 0300-0600 on 1116 kHz. The address is: Ul.Lesnaya 41, Avtobank, Room 412-A, 101514 Moscow. Another station, Avtoradio is on 765 kHz. (G.Grigoriev via BDXC via ARC via FDXA "Euronews") FUTURE TECH: HDTV--Cinema-quality high definition television (HDTV) may soon be a reality in European living rooms under a plan launched recently to find a common European standard for digital transmission. A group of satellite operators, broadcasters, manufacturers and regulators have signed a memorandum of understanding in Bonn. "They are jointly undertaking to make every effort to provide European digital television and to place it on the market as from 1995," said Wolfgang Boetsch, Germany's Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, after the signing. The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) groups 85 members, including at least one Japanese electronics firm. But the core of firms are from Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Peter Kahl, an official from Boetsch's ministry and the new head of the DVB, told a news conference: "Europe doesn't want to lag behind in these developments." He predicted there would be a standard for satellite transmissions by the end of this year, and a standard for cable services some time in 1994. All-digital standards use signals similar to those employed by computers and are seen as the way forward for television. The agreement to search for a standard clears the way for the development of a range of advanced television services. Digital transmission can carry large numbers of channels simultaneously, ranging from "multi-channel" satellite services to terrestrial HDTV. It makes possible teleshopping, personal computer link-ups and other interactive services. "I'm not a prophet, but at a conservative estimate, there will soon be 100 channels on your television," said Kahl. Recently, the European Community agreed to provide 228 million Ecu (274 million dollars) to promote the television technology which will bring cinema-quality HDTV into consumers' homes. But the EC plan, formulated in July, left the choice of transmission standard to the market. The European group coalesced after the recent formation of an industry alliance across the Atlantic working on a single all-digital HDTV system for the United States. Kahl said the organisation had not requested funds from the EC. It would be financed mainly by membership fees and research would come out of members' own pockets. The group includes the European Commission as an observer and Britain's Department of Trade and Industry among others. Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands, Thomson SA of France, Sony Europe, the British Broadcasting Corporation and Germany's Grundig AG are also involved. (Reuters) Japan's television and video industry has welcomed European efforts to move towards a common digital standard for high definition television (HDTV), industry analysts said on September 13. Currently several transmission formats are used in the world, including NTSC, PAL and SECAM, so a common standard would make it easier from a maker's point of view, an official at a major Japanese consumer electronics company said. Although Japan uses an analog version of HDTV, it would not mean Japanese makers would have a disadvantage in the European market, analysts said. All manufacturers would need to comply with a new standard for Europe, so that everybody, whether Japanese or European, would be starting from same position, the analysts said. "No one will have a competitive advantage," Camp said. "Everyone will have to make adjustments, not just the Japanese." (Reuters) The remaining American HDTV proponents were brought together in an American "Grand Alliance" by the Federal Communications Commission recently. At the recent Montreaux ITVS Show, where HDTV was a major topic, the chairman of the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, Richard E. Wiley, invited the Europeans into a "Tres Grand Alliance", to join together with the Americans in creating a single HDTV standard. ("World Broadcast News") USA--The Federal Communications Commission has held a lottery to determine who wins the right to operate two-way television broadcast systems in nine American cities. More than 1000 companies filed 4100 applications for the 18 interactive and video data service (IVDS) licences, two in each of the nine cities. The IVDS frequencies were previously used for automated river boat traffic. Lottery winners are expected to turn to one of three companies in the field: Interactive Network of Mountain View, California, Radio Telecom and Technology of Riverside, California, and Eon of Reston, Virginia. According to Interactive Network, which currently operates a limited service in northern California and Chicago, consumers would pay around 250 dollars for a hand-held reception unit, plus about 15 dollars a month. The service allows viewers to play along with televised game and news programs. Eon has already signed up Domino's Pizza, the Weather Channel, the J.C.Penney department store chain, and a sports game company to offer interactive programs. For example, a TV viewer using the system could order a pizza, a dress from Penney's, a customized weather forecast, or play along with a football team with a click of their remote control. On September 23rd the FCC will announce how it will divide up another set of frequencies for what are called personal communication services. Hundreds of companies are vying for the right to offer light-weight, wireless personal communication service phones to the public. The services will probably not be available until 1995, because the FCC still has to decide how many licences it will grant in each city, whether current cellular licensees are eligible, and the phones' technical standards. ("San Francisco Chronicle") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden Calling DXers is the world's oldest radio program for shortwave listeners. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. Radio Sweden broadcasts in English: Europe and Africa: 15:00 hrs on 1179 khz (weekdays only) 16:15 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz 17:30 hrs on 1179, 6065, and 9645 kHz 20:30 hrs on 1179, 6065 and 9655 kHz 21:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 khz, and 22:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz Middle East and East Africa: 15:00 hrs on 15190 kHz and 17:30 hrs on 15270 kHz Asia and the Pacific: 12:30 hrs on 15240 and 21500 kHz 22:30 hrs on 11910 kHz and 01:00 hrs on 9695 and 11820 kHz North America: 15:00 hrs on 15240 and 21500 kHz and 02:00 hrs on 9695 and 11705 kHz South America: 00:00 hrs on 9695 kHz The broadcasts at 12:30, 16:15, 17:30, 20:30 (weekends only), 21:30, and 22:30 hrs are also relayed to Europe by satellite: Astra 1B (19.2 degrees East) transponder 26 (Sky Movies Gold/TV Asia/Adult Channel) at 11.597 GHz, audio subcarrier at 7.74 MHz, Tele-X (5 degrees East) (TV4 transponder) at 12.207 GHz, audio subcarrier 7.38 MHz. 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