Chasing Midnight 2010/11/12

Chasing midnight is a thing that I have took part in on other forums for the last few years and hopefully it will take peoples interest here.

Basically on New Years Eve midnight happens all over the world and the 'game' is to see how many you can see.

Hopefully the thread will contain peoples screen grabs and which channels members are putting there hopes on getting the best celebration etc etc.

I have a couple of bits of information showing what channels are good to try and what has been the best before etc etc.

Please post here to say if you may be interested in taking part.

Here's a bit of info.

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1100 - Auckland - Sky News / BBC News
1300 - Sydney - Sky News / BBC News
1400 - Vladivostok - Russia Today
1500 - temple in Japan - JSTV1 /Korea - Arirang
1600 - China - CCTV4 or CCTV9
1700 - Thailand - Thai Global TV / Vietnam - VTV4
1800 - Kazakhstan - Caspionet / Kyrgyzstan - K+
1830 - India - Amrita TV or NDTV (scrambled on 28E)
1900 - Uzbekistan - Uzbek TV (only on 40E so most folk pick up Dinner For One here)
1930 -Afghanistan - RTA (a very faint chance - hasnt done anything notable before)
1945 - Nepal - Nepali TV on 9E (another very faint chance - they didnt show anything in 2008 or 2009)

After this more channels become available so the group starts breaking up and watching various things

2000 - Georgia - Adjara TV / Armenia - C1 / Azerbaijan - Lider TV, Shant TV or Az 1
2100 - Moscow - one of the main Russian channels
2200 - numerous eastern European countries including Albania - Als&t, TVSH / Turkey - TRT Turk / Romania - TVRi / Greece - ERT the Baltic countries on 5E etc
2300 - Germany - ARD or numerous German regionals / Nigeria - AIT International or Loveworld
0000 - Portugal - RTPi or if you are really desperate UK BBC1 London or Scotland on 28E

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A few pictures from last year.

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INTERNATIONAL TIMES AND COORDINATES: NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE COVERAGE

VIA SATELLITE IN SD 16 X 9: Friday, December 31, 2010 - 11:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST (Saturday, January 1, 2011 0445-0515 GMT)

EUROPE: IS 905 12C X62K Slot E, Orbital Slot 335.5; Downlink Frequency 11075.5 Vertical, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 6.62; Bandwidth 9 MEG, Compression Tandberg 4:2:0, Video Standard PAL

LATIN AMERICA: IS 9 24C, Slot A, Orbital Slot 58’ West; Downlink Frequency 4146.5 Horizontal, FEC 3/4, Symbol Rate 6.1113, Bandwidth 9 MEG, Compression Tandberg 4:2:0, Video Standard PAL

ASIA: IS 5 23C, VIRTUAL CHANNEL 2, Orbital Slot 169’ East; Downlink Frequency 4160 Horizontal, FEC 3/4, Symbol Rate 26.48, Bandwidth 36 MEG, Video Standard PAL

AFRICA: IS10 16C, Slot E, Orbital Slot 68.5’ East; Downlink Frequency 3931.5 Vertical, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 6.62, Bandwidth 9 MEG, Compression Tandberg 4:2:0, Video Standard PAL

On a couple of other sites that do this it seems very popular, 300+ posts.

An updated list here

Auckland is 7 mins away

Quote from shamonemf

Auckland is 7 mins away

Auckland on 10e 10971 V 4167

Auckland 2011

Sydney 2011 http://imgur.com/a/jnblC

Hong Kong http://imgur.com/a/ZBpO6/hong_kong

Thailand and Vietnam Thailand and Vietnam - Imgur

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan - Imgur

Dubai - easily the best up to yet......Dubai TV - Imgur

Thought I would bring this thread back up to see if there is any interest in doing this again this year.

Spreadsheet is open and available to edit

http://tinyurl.com/6txvd98

Thanks to remlap