Lee Bonnifield wrote in a message to Charlie Young:
 LB> People who have a C-band dish and a 286+ not in use 24 hours a day
 LB> (like, while sleeping or working) can aim them at G4/6 and get the
 LB> 9600 bps Skylink datastream on a subcarrier (listen at ~7.26 MHz)
 LB> continually streaming in the serial port. And of course this TVRO
 LB> echo is among the Fido echoes coming in that stream (and shareware,
 LB> TV Agent listings, weather, news, etc). A subscription to Skylink
 LB> (or Planet Connect, 19200-128000 bps) includes a subscription to TV
 LB> Agent. 
And HOW Much is this service from Sky' and PC now ?
Is there still a seperate data-interface needed ??
Will it connect to the 'baseband' of my Sierra III,
so I can program the IRD to come on and switch to the 
Sat/Xpndr on a daily event and have my computer exit 
the mailer at a certain time and receive this info 
and then go back to it's normal job ??? 
At only 9600, it seems like it would take a L-O-N-G time
to receive ALL that data from IFN and internet, plus the
TV-Agent, weather and News... ?!?
I can probably dedicate a 121 meg SCSI HD and COM Port
on my 386/33 for this, if that would be enough ...
I seem to recall there being a problem with downlink data 
reliability from PC here a while back, has that been fixed ?
Sincerely,
           Bruce - kb6lwn - ck1@pacbell.net 
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