Link Categories

Norsat and Microsat Pages	File Updates
Satellite / Channel Info	Satellite FTP Sites
Broadcasters and Channel Pages	Shows and Producers
TV Related Sites	Satellite Usenet Newsgroups
Government et al.	Net Video and Audio
Satellite Dealers and Other Retailers	Data / Space Segment Providers
Net Search and Research Tools	News and Research
Embedded Control	Internet Programming
PC and General Programming & Software	Computer Publications and News
Just Stuff

= Computer Info, = Satellite Info, = Info for Microsat, = Software Downloads, = Channel Info

Microsat Pages

Norsat no longer carries the Microsat 150. I have made arrangements to make the remaining Microsats and some Microsat information available.

Back to the Future for Private Satellite Networks: A magazine article about private satellite networks featuring the technology of
the Microsat 150.
CompuServe's Web: Norsat also has technical support on Compuserve. To get to the Norsat support area, GO NORSAT. Or contact Norsat Tech Support at 74777,2363 (74777.2363@compuserve.com).

File Updates

Microsat 150 Version 1.03.6: Improved tolerance to faulty 16550 UARTS, Improved Spectrum Analyst, data logging, and other minor improvements.
This is an interim update.
Dish Installer Version 1.3: The version 1.3 Update fixes some problems that users with
certain dish types, particularly in eastern locations, have
experienced with the dish not installing properly.
Satellite Chart Parser (sattab.zip): Reads the South Scanner Satellite Services Chart (not included, see below) and turns it into a File Manager style directory of the sky.
Click on an icon for channel details or double-click to auto-matically tune the channel or subcarrier. Freeware Courtesy of NII Norsat International Inc.
Microsat 150 FAQ (msatfaq.zip): Answers to frequently asked questions about the Microsat 150, in Windows help format. Includes an abridged version of the Microsat 150 online help, for a look at how many of the features of the Microsat behave.
Robert's Info-files: Check here for the current issue of South Scanner Satellite Services Chart, and other information files from Robert Smathers.
Gary Bourgois' Info-files: Go here to get the latest copy of the Wildfeeds list, Audio list, satellite faq and other files maintained by Gary Bourgois.
Channel Icons (chanicos.zip): The current collection of predefined icons for popular channels provided with the Microsat 150.

Satellite / Channel Info

The Satellite TV Page: The Satellite TV Page attempts to bring together all the information resources related to the subject of Satellite Television and Radio scattered about the net..
Robert Smathers' Satellite Page: Home of the South Scanner Satellite Services Chart (SSSSC), and other satellite related information.
The Satellite's Encyclopedia: Home Page for The Satellite's Encyclopedia, a shareware Winhelp hypertext "book" packed full of information about all types of satellites from around the world.
Mr Video Productions Home Page: This site has more information about Paramount and UPN that the Paramount site. Other sci-fi too. Includes satellite information for all Paramount and UPN feeds.
Derek Tobin's Telecommunications Page: Links to satellite information with more emphasis on Europe. Yet another road to follow.
DSS Home Page: Links to information on DSS.
Satellite TV Images: A collection of satellite tv images from arount the world.; satellite feeds (ST:Voyager, ST: Deep Space Nine, Hard Copy, Leeza, ET, etc.)
ULTIMATE TV LIST: Searchable index to a lot of information on TV Shows both living and dead.
More Satellite Related Sites...: List of sites with various satellite related information information. They are too numerous to list here! (Yahoo).
Satellite Wildfeed Listing: Wondering when your favorite shows are fed? Check this list for times and channels! Based on the Gary Bourgois wildfeeds list.
Satmaster Satellite Pages: Satellite shareware utilities, and information.

Satellite FTP Sites

Satellite FTP (oak.oakland.edu): Satellite utilities and other programs.
Norsat FTP area: The Norsat FTP area for access to satellite, microsat and update files with or without an HTML navigator.
Microsat FTP: Microsat ftp area. See the "dist" subdirectory for any updated distribution disks.

Broadcasters and Channel Pages

The CBC Homepage: CBC Television on the web.
The CTV Homepage: The CTV Telenision Network.
FOX Broadcasting: Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about Fox but were afraid to ask.
Welcome to PBS: Information on PBS and PBS Shows. Includes current schedule information for PBS satellite schedules for C and Ku.
CBS Television Home Page: CBS Eye on the net. CBS network home page.
United Paramount Network: Another unofficial UPN page. Corporate info and links to shows and other related info.
Mind Extension University (ME/U) Home Page: ME/U offers university telecourses via satellite on satellite G5. These include PCTV from Jones Computer Network.
fX: The fX television network (G7-4 and 5).
Discovery Learning: Discovery (U.S.A.) / TLC's educational project.
Microsoft TV Program Guide: Program guide for Microsoft TV.
C-SPAN Gopher: The cable television industry created C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) 13 years ago to provide live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since those early days of covering the House, C-SPAN has grown into a combination of networks that provide diverse public affairs programming 24-hours-a-day.
The Warner Brothers Network: The unofficial home page of "The WB", Warner Brother's new network.
Network 1 Information: Network One, a nationional ALTERNATIVE Network.
NewsTalk Television: Newstalk Television's home page. Today's newstalk 24 hours a day, every day.
Satellite/Cable TV Networks/Programming: TV Net's Master list of satellite and cable networks.
ZDTV: ZDTV is a TV channel and integrated website which focuses on computers and the Internet. The shows feature interactive programming with live chat, phone and netcam call-in plus.

Shows and Producers

@discovery.ca: A daily technology show on Discovery Canada.
CBS News: UTTMlink: Home of CBS Up-To-The-Minute, CBS's overnight news and information show. Includes "The Digital Drive" segment. Includes a summary of the latest (and past) stories about the internet.
Universal cHANnEL: MCA/Universal Television Group's Page. Program and behind-the-scene info on their syndicated and network shows (like seaQuest DSV, Law & Order, Dream On, Vanishing Son, and Hercules -- The Legendary Journeys).
Sony Online: Information on sony pictures television and movies and more.
Paramount Pictures: The official home of UPN and Paramount.
Star Trek: Voyager: The "ultimate" in network sponsored program home pages. Take a "tour" of duty on the starship Voyager. You wake up injured in sickbay and must prove your readyness to return to duty.
The USS DEFIANT: As good a place as any to start if you are a Star Trek Fan! There are WAY too many star trek pages to list here!
Jones Computer Network (JCN) Home Page: JCN produces computer related satellite programming such as PCTV for ME/U.
Sunergy Home Page: Sunergy Home Page - satellite television broadcasts, newsletters and whitepapers. Sunergy presents the great minds of the computer industry to a worldwide audience through various electronically based media.
The Mission Impossible Home Page: The Sixties Classic which can be 28 times per week on satellite on fX.

TV Related Sites

TV Picture of the Day: See what this fellow is watching on TV. Has more links to TV related stuff.
Sites with Television Schedules...: List of sites having television schedule information. They are too numerous to list here! (Yahoo).

Satellite Usenet Newsgroups

Newsgroup: rec.video.satellite.tvro: Full-sized satellite dish, C and Ku analog systems.
Newsgroup: rec.video.satellite.misc: Discussions of general technical satellite issues.
Newsgroup: rec.video.satellite.dbs: Discussion group on the digital satellite cable systems like DSS.

Government et al.

CRTC Home Page: These guys have got to get real! Check out the latest things they want to mess up!
The Canadian Resource Page: An unoficcial list of canadian services.
Open Government: An oxymoron, true, but worth keeping an eye on.

Net Video and Audio

Welcome to Real Audio !: "Real-time" audio while surfing the net. It's not even close to Microsat quality, but it's only by modem.
NASA Television on CU-SeeMe: The "video" equivalent to real audio. Only about 5 MHz less bandwidth than (Microsat Video).
CU-SeeMe Desktop Videoconferencing: Real-time "video" teleconferencing via the internet.
The Computer Program (audio): Listen to The Computer Program, the radio product of The Computer Paper as audio while you surf the Net.
Internet Phone: Have a voice conversation over IRC. Truly an internet CB!
VideoVu: Another competing web video product.
Desktop Videoconferencing Product Survey: A study of desktop video conferencing products.

Satellite Dealers and Other Retailers

Burnaby Radio: A satellite dealer in Burnaby BC.
Yahoo - Business:Corporations:Telecommunications:Satellite: Companies in the satellite communication business.
Superior Communication, Home Page
On the Go Communications, Inc.
Hobby Corner Satellite

Data / Space Segment Providers

Microspace Communications: Microspace Communications provides satellite FM� audio and data space.
Keystone Communications Home Page: Keystone Communications provides video broadcast and transmission services. Uplinker of occasional video services.
Telesat Canada: Canada's uplink provider. Services and space segment on Anik satellites.

Net Search and Research Tools

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Information highway roadmap.
W3 Search Engines: A collection of engines to hunt for info on the web.
Starting Point: Graphical web searcher.

News and Research

The Daily News - Free Internet Sources * Front Page *: Places to find news on the internet.
USA TODAY: USA Today on the web. Highlights of news weather and sports, updated daily.
WWW WorldNews Today .. Front Page: Indianapolis, IN, US The Web daily source for news, business, sports, people, entertainment, travel, style and much more. Free service.

Embedded Control

Microchip Technology: The Leading Supplier of RISC Microcontrollers & Serial EEPROM. The place to go for official PIC and Serial EE data.
Andy's PIC Project Page: Lots of PIC and Microcontroler stuff. Rather than duplicate it here, I'll just link to it.
Eric Smith's PIC Projects: A collection of PIC projects and other embedded control information
Custom Conputer Services: C Compiler for the PIC
Circuit Cellar BBS FTPmail File List: FTP Site for Circuit Cellar BBS. The place to go for embedded control stuf!
AMD Home Page: Advanved Micro Devices. Semiconductor data.
Pic programs: A personal web page of David Thomas with a few PIC programs.
Microchip's FTP Site: Application note files, software, etc.
for PIC processors, EEPROM, etc.
FTP Server with PIC Programming tools: This FTP server has files describing a DIY PIC programmer.

Internet Programming

NCSA HTTPd Home Page: The "official" root of WEB development.

PC and General Programming & Software

Programming Applications: An HTMLed archive of programming tools. One line descriptions.
Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info: Graphics tools.
Simtel Visual Basic Archive: Tools, VBXs ect to make VB programming easier.
Mirrors in ACC Cyfronet: Single site that mirrors Simtel, Cica, and other shareware, freeware and documentation libraries. Includes a search engine across multiple libraries.
Walnut Creek CDROM Electronic Catalog: The bigest archive of shareware software in the world.
Virtual Software Library: Automaticly search (full pattern matching) through up to six software libraries at a time (from most of the major shareware and freeware libraries). Suggests which mirror is likely to connect easiest and fastest.
Wilson WindowWare Home Page: Shareware software publisher of batch and editing tools for windows.
PC MAG/ ZD 1995 Shareware Awards: A complete listing of PC Magazine's winners, runners-up and other finalists in the 2nd Annual Ziff-Davis Shareware Awards. Read about the winners, then download them!
Directory map of ftp.microsoft.com: This is an overview of Microsoft's extensive software library.

Computer Publications and News

Computer Paper: The launch page of the Computer Paper, a computer and technology monthly newspaper.
Electronic Newsstand Homepage: Browse on-line mag info. Online subscriptions.
Computer News Daily: Daily computer news, features, and reports from the New York Times Syndicate.

Just Stuff

City.Net World Map: Find information about places around the world. A great starting point for the kid's social studies reports.
Windows Demos: A collection of demo versions of many windows programs plus other freebies from a variety of major software companies.

Microsat Pages

Related Pages

File Updates

Satellite / Channel Info

Satellite FTP Sites

Broadcasters and Channel Pages

Shows and Producers

TV Related Sites

Satellite Usenet Newsgroups

Government et al.

Net Video and Audio

Satellite Dealers and Other Retailers

Data / Space Segment Providers

Net Search and Research Tools

News and Research

Embedded Control

PIC Programmers

Internet Programming

HTML

Tools and resources

CGI scripts and tips

Tips, techniques, and examples

PC and General Programming & Software

Computer Publications and News

Ziff-Davis Publications:

Other Publications

Just Stuff