Intelsat 10-02, Thor 2, 3     (0.8 W)

Thor 1 was retired from service on 14th January 2002, when the final channel transmitting off it was switched off. Its been silent since.

Thor 1 boosted to junk orbit January 2003.

TV4 ceased on 31st March 2004. There are currently no fta analogue channels radiating off 1W  :-(
The D2Mac channels are listed below.

The scrolling banner TV4 were running over the top of their programming the last week of March 2004 can be seen here

Last date channels checked and still active:    28 October 2007

This was the 11th orbital position I found active. Despite the beam being aimed at the Nordic countries, The TV4 signal was reasonably strong here in the Scottish Borders. The signal was first noted on the 15th April 2001.

D2 Mac channels

I have been asked by several people to provide some information about the D2 Mac encoded channels on the satellites at 1W (Thor 2, 3, & Intelsat 707). Although I can see some of the signals, I cant decode any of these channels, and the information below has been inferred from several sources. The signals will show up on an old Sky analogue system as rapidly moving horizontal black and white lines, a bit like a very badly off tune tv. I have been informed that some of these signals carry teletext information that can be obtained by some teletext sets. I dont have teletext on any of my equipment, so I cant test this out.

3rd July 2006:    DR2 ceased transmissions off 11434V in the last couple of days. This is the end of analogue services on 1W.

31st May 2005:    TV3 Denmark has gone from 11341V and 3+ has gone from 11747H

1st May 2004:    TV3 Denmark has closed off 11473V

25th April 2004:    TV 3 Norway has ceased transmissions off 11357H

20th April 2004:    TV 3 Norway has closed off 11096 H.

18th February 2004:    TV3 Norway will cease off Intelsat 707 (11096H) on 3rd May. It will continue on Thor 2 (11357H). TV3 Denmark will also cease off Intelsat 707 (11473V) on the same date. It will continue on Thor 2 (11341V).

4th February 2004:    TV3 Norway frequency change. Its currently operating in parallel on 11096H & 11357H. 11096 will be switched off at some point in the next few months.

4th January 2003:    Its being reported that DR2 will cease 11434V in the next few days :-(

2nd December 2003:    Kanal 5 left 11341V at the end of November :-(

31st May 2003:    TV 2 Zulu has gone from 11727V :-(

17th October 2002:    TV2 11261H / NRK 2 11325H / NRK 1 11357H all closed as expected on 15th October. They have been removed from the table.

5th July 2002:    Thanks to Alexander Langden for the following info: TV Norge closed the SMATV service 11th June - DTH closed May. NRK1 / NRK 2 / TV2 confirmed closing 15th October.

13th June 2002:    11421 H TV Norge gone in the last couple of days.. Removed from table.

5th June 2002:    Apparently Eurosport closed 11823 H as expected on 2nd April. TV Norge 11421 H seems to be still on air at the moment?

26th March 2002:    Phil Harwood has sent info on more channels closures (11216 V TV Danmark1 / 11485 H Telenor test card / 11597 TV3 Sverige) The channels have been removed from the table. 

3rd December 2001:    Canal + analogue is reported to have closed on 1st November. They have been removed from the table. Thanks to Alexander Langøen for this info. (Canal + Norge 11293H / Canal + Gul 12054H)

27th October 2001:    Ive compared the channels in the table to a couple of other sources. Apparently TCM / Cartoon Network (11001V) have gone from this orbital location sometime in the last few weeks, and have been removed from the table. The others seem to be still on air.

26th June 2001:    Thanks to Svein for a lot of information about these channels. The information below reflects what he told me in his email.

27th May 2001:    Adam Cartledge has provided information on D2Mac channel closures. The closed channels have been removed from the table.

Notes:

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2    Thor 2

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