Chasing Midnight - New Years Eve 2007

[Analoguesat]

Its that time of the year again! We had great fun doing this last year on the old SH forum so I hope a few folk will join in this year.

Plenty of notice is being given so folk can get set up in plenty of time.

The idea is that by using the channels on the European satellites you see how many midnights we can find. (12 last year - can we do better this year?)

First one of the day is 2pm uk time when Sky News goes over to Sydney for the Australian celebrations. We then work westwards through places like China, Vietnam, Thailand and Kazakhstan until we reach midnight in the UK (where I normally watch the celebrations in Portugal!)

Everyone is welcome to join in. Ideally you need access to Hotbird & Astra 1 - although a couple of the channels are carried on Sky UK. I hope a few of the non satellite folk on the forum will drop in during the day as well to say hello and see what lunacy the satellite nuts can get up to in their spare time.

I'll be posting pics on the thread and anyone else who has the capability is asked to post pics of what they find as well.

Why do it Im often asked? Well no reason really.

Its a bit of fun, its completely pointless, its a chance to see how other cultures celebrate their new year, and its a chance to have a few drinks as well (if any excuse was needed!)

See you NYE if you are interested.

[diapason]

I had great fun chasing Midnight last year and that was on a Fortec Lifetime Classic. It'll be more fun on a Technomate 1000D Super and I found a link to many of the world's television stations, country by country - here it is:

List of television networks by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All you need now is a world clock and away we go!!

[Analoguesat]

Heres how it panned out last year in amongst the gales

1300 - Sky News (for Australian coverage)
1400 - Russia Today for the far eastern Russian timezones
1500 - JSTV1 Japan
1600 - CCTV 4 or 9 China
1700 - VTV4 Vietnam and Thai Global Thailand
1800 - Caspionet Kazakhstan
then over to Kika for Dinner fur Brodt
1830 - Amrita India may be worth trying DD News this year on 28E)
1900 - Uzbek TV Uzbekistan (40E)
1930 - Ariane Afghanistan
2000 - Az TV or Lider TV Azerbaijhan, ARM 1 Armenia or Georgia (Adjara TV) Oman (Oman TV) or Dubai (EDTV) to have a look at... plus any others from UAE.
2100 - RTR Planeta, Russia Today, Planeta Sport etc Russia / Saudi, Kuwait and Qatar etc
2200 Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Italy Albania etc and no end of other countries in central and eastern Europe
2300 - ARD 1 Germany is the only place to be
2400 - UK & RTPi Portugal

These are the local midnight times so tune in during the preceding hour to watch the end of year fun. Once we get into the Christmas holiday I'll have a look see if we can slot any more in thanks to new channels on Hotbird.

[remlap]

A chart I made.

Channels New Years.xls - Excel File for those who wish to amend it.

[ascoile]

There won't be much from China as they have a different calendar! It's about the first week in February for them.

[remlap]

No your wrong, CCTV 4 and 9 make just as much a fuss over this New Years as Chinese New Years.

[madrat]

I only have 30 west at the moment

[lincsat]

I remember finding a feed from the Pacific island near the dateline for the first New Millennium celebration - can't remember which bird though, pretty sure it was AOR coming via the USA.

[Analoguesat]

Originally Posted by madrat

I only have 30 west at the moment

You wont be joining in the fun then

[nanochickin]

I dunno theres some portuguese stuff on 30w

Intelsat 905 @ 24.5w might be good for the Indian new year



Nano