Hi,
This week I launched my new website: https://vma-broadcast.com/
It replaces my former blog (https://vma-satellite.blogspot.com).
I finally got around to actually rent a service provider and register a domain. My VMA Video Analyser software has gotten mature and I felt it was the right thing to do.
Anyway, I would like to inform that I created a section for the TELE-audiovision magazine. Alexander Wiese trusted me with his magazine and I am honouring this by getting many (unfortunately not all) of the magazines online, including some pretty old ones. This is practically a trip into the past of satellite recepetion!
For the real hard-core fans, I included the early Tele-satellite TV broadcasts which, after the split of Christian Mass, became known as Dr. Dish TV. At that time, Alexander Wiese did not believe so much in having a TV channel and focussed on the magazine. From "tele-satellite" it changed to "TELE-audiovision". On the last years of the magazine I contributed with articles, leading to a close friendship. Sadly, Alexander Wiese passed away much too early, but I have to say that he taught me a lot. His most remarkable feature to me was his ability to cut with the past and start something new. When he saw the decline in printed media, he simply closed down the magazine. Others would struggle to shut down a lifetime achievement - not him. His words were "Das interessiert mich nicht mehr..." ("This doesn't interest me anymore"...).
I would like to point out that he loved to travel and for the magazine he interviewed amateur DX'er in most remote parts of the world. Often poor people from our standards, who somehow managed to setup some amazing dishes and equipment. He gave them the opportunity to share their shack and somehow created some form of community.
Anyway, I am not going to bore you any further. Hope you enjoy the magazines. I would, however like to know if there is interest in this, since I have more material. But this is a huge effort to digitize (I have the very first magazines). Also, I have the original Adobe Ilustrator projects of the magazine, which could be interesting. These, however, are huge and I am already running out of server space.
Cheers,
Vitor