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Broadcasts Small Business School (and before 2001, Small Business 2000 and before 1995, Small Business Today) is rebroadcast into every principal major city outside of North America at least twice, and as often as five times, per week via seven IBB Voice of America (VOA) satellites. On weekdays only, this signal is taken down directly by cable stations, broadcast stations, hotels, government agencies, high-end businesses, and tech-saavy individuals throughout the world. A list of the satellite information follows. To look up this schedule dynamically, click here. Central America or the Caribbean Islands (C-Band), GE II 85 deg. West 3980.0 MHz Transponder 14 (24 hours, NTSC). South America (C-Band), it is carried by the Intelsat 601 (VI F-4) West Hemi Beam, 332.5° East, 3995 MhZ, Transponder 14 (24 hours, NTSC). Africa, Europe, and the Middle East (C-Band), Intelsat VI F4 --- MCPC D/2=3762MHz, RHC 332.5 deg. East --- FEC 3/4 East Hemi Beam --- SYMBOL RATE 20.6 MPS SCPC D/L=3715 MHz, RHC FEC 1/2 SYMBOL RATE 8.448 MPS (24 hours, PAL) . Europe (Ku-Band), HOTBIRD I (HB1) 13 deg. East 11.442 GHz VERTICAL POLARIZATION FEC 3/4 SYMBOL RATE 5.632 MPS (0900-1430 UTC Monday-Thursday 0830-1430 UTC Friday, PAL). EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 3 http://www.eutelsat.org/home.html Digital Downlink Center Freq:12.4845 GHZ FEC: 3/4 Symbol Rate: 8.3 MS/s Typical L-band Freq: 1734.5 MHz Local Oscillator (LO) freq: 10.75GHz Polarization: Horizontal Signal Polarization: Vertical Receiver Polarization Setting: H (to send 19 v to LNB for High Ku-Band) Near East and Asia: AsiaSat-2 Satellite Location: 100.5 Degrees East Transponder: 7B Downlink Polarization: Horizontal Assigned Bandwidth: 36 MHz Downlink Center Frequency: 3,880 MHz Downlink Bandwidth: 3,862 MHz - 3,898 MHz Carrier Type: Analog TV Video System: PAL-B Main Video Audio Frequency: 6.6 MHz Other Audio Subcarrier Freqs.: 7.02 MHz 7.20 MHz 7.38 MHz 7.56 MHz 7.74 MHz 7.92 MHz All Audio Frequency BW: 15 kHz Transmitted EIRP: 31 dBw (downlink at beam edge) . Near East (C-Band), Intelsat 703, 57 deg. East 4050 MHz., RHC Transponder 35 (24 hrs, PAL). In Poland and China this signal has been dubbed with our permission into native languages. The online transcripts have facilitated this development. Over 3000 cable stations in Latin America have re-aired the show in "VOA" Spanish and in English. |