Satellite Information

If you're at a radio station and have a satellite dish, you can receive "This Way Out." Here's how:

1. Although "This Way Out" is not a production of National Public Radio, we use their satellite, so that is where you will have to point your dish. For most public radio stations, this step has probably already been done for you.

2. "This Way Out" feeds on Mondays from 14:30-14:59 Eastern time on digital channel A73.5. (Transmission used to be on analog channel 12, but the Public Radio Satellite System now transmits digitally.) The satellite feed is in mono; however, tape copies of the program are available by subscription and are in stereo. Write to us for more information.

3. If your satellite dish is not currently aimed at the NPR satellite, here is the technical information you will need: Point your dish at the Galaxy 4 satellite, C-band Transponder 1, I.F. frequency 73.5 MHz, in the ComStream ABR700 digital audio format.

4. The satellite's "footprint" covers the contiguous 48 states, as well as Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean.

   
   

   IMPORTANT

   For home satellite-dish owners, there's some bad news. Now that the Public Radio Satellite System is no longer analog SCPC, neither the standard, run-of-the-mill home satellite video receiver nor an SCPC receiver can receive the Public Radio Satellite System any longer. The ComStream ABR700 digital audio format is proprietary and can only be received on their brand and model receiver and only when that receiver has been authorized.

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Last updated: 1 July 2002
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