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Watch Small Business School by
Satellite!
You have to be creative and flexible. The air
times for the show are hard to find and may change overnight. Yet, if you have
a satellite dish, you do have choices. Small Business School airs
literally hundreds of times per week all around the world. From this page, we
will share with you the extraordinary stories and configurations whereby people
watch Small Business School in their homes although the signal
originates from thousands of miles away.
1. National Educational Telecommunications
Association : The formal designation is:
NETA: PBS Virtual Channel
513 - NETA, 52/30s, 1630-1700 EST which means a new episode of the
show is released every week on Saturday at 4:30 PM.
Satellite data (for the Station Engineers): KU
Band: AMC 3 - Ku Band Transponder #23. Downlink frequency is 12174.5 MHz,
horizontal polarity. This is a Digicypher II SCPC encoded feed and will require
authorized DSR II integrated receiver-decoders to access this feed. Encoded
feed on PBS Virtual Channel 513. C Band: Telstar 4, C-Band transponder #24.
Downlink frequency is 4180 MHz, Horizontal polarity. Audio subcarriers are 6.2
MHz (left channel) and 6.8 MHz (right = channel).
2. International Broadcast
Bureau : The IBB
Worldnet airs episodes of the show as many as seven times per weekday, and
as often as ten times in a week.
3. Dish Network and DirecTV
: As they say, "Check your local listings."
4. Dubai Business Channel .
A gentleman from Madison, Wisconsin with roots in the Middle East wrote to us
about the show. At that time he was watching it twice a day! His satellite
signal came from in the United Arab Emirates!
 The technical information: Channel 10, Telstar 5,
Frequency: 11898 mhz, 20.00 Ms/s 3/4 Vertocal.
His satellite dish is manufactured by
Samsung, Receiver Model DSR 3700 and it can be found for sale on eBay! Our
friend paid just $270 for it from a local grocery store (that sells
everything). It generally lists for $325. The Dubai Business Channel is part of
the free channels that are received and there are no monthly fees.
We have also learned that Dish Network has
a Middle Eastern Package for $30/month and it includes the Dubai Business
Channel. |
