Astra 2F: Pre-Operational Discussion

[Lazarus]

Well chaps, it's all quiet now, but if the next elements of the Migration do indeed take place tonight, I shall be in the land of nod!

Good luck to all those with a sense of foreboding - shirley it can't be all that bad?

 

[C0re]

I posted a list of all the frequencies found during testing further back in this thread.
http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/topic/156921-astra-2f-pre-operational-discussion/?p=825410

10754V was me on a couple of occasions and the other 3 in band D were logged by Solly. All could be bogus because none were confirmed from secondary locations.

Adjacent locations at 43.5E don't have active transponders in that frequency range. So can't be bogus but the SES file posted by Marcus_21 suggests indeed that the 2F has no capacity in the range between 10.70 and 10.95 GHz. Is it possible that at the final stages of fabrication transponders were switched to 10.70 - 10.95?

 

[skomedal]

read post #143, page 5 in this thread

 

[solly]

@TENERIFE-TV
i wish all tp move today
so 1n go to 19.2e
i not belive 1n stay to until 2e launch q1 2013

 

[Huevos]

Adjacent locations at 43.5E don't have active transponders in that frequency range. So can't be bogus

I think anything that isn't confirmed from a secondary location could be bogus. For example I mentioned the vicinity of 11643 several times. No one else did. After the satellite moved it carried on, so was obviously caused by local noise, possible DECT.

 

[Analoguesat]

Well its about my bed time.I'll be on briefly in the morning to have a look at the first reports, then its off to work for me.

Keep the reports rolling in during the day and I'll make a start on the updated map tomorrow evening

Please remember to put your town & dish sizes on the reports - if you have reception or not.


FWIW - C5 current signal strengths on 10964H:

7020

SNR 97%
AGC 95%


Duo

SNR 99% (cant see that one going up!)

 

[Huevos]

read post #143, page 5 in this thread

Yes, which is why I compiled that list. I knew there had been reports, but I wanted to see if they had been verified.

 

[Lazarus]

@TENERIFE-TV ,"You are EUROPA and I claim my €5"

 

[william-1]

I do remember reading that the Eurostar E3000 series build for Astra 2E,2F & 2G covered 10.7GHz to 12.75GHz but like some of the other data released by SES Astra about these satellites it has been removed ?

It would be very strange it Astra 2F was not able to cover all the active transponders in the Ku band given the policy of replacement satellite transponder back up in the future,

Only a few hours left to find out now.

 

[battenfan]

What about 12051V (CNN) & 12207V (Sky News)? They went completely blank all Sunday and came back late Monday but much weaker.
Picture breaking up, intermittent lock. Dish size 120cm @Stockholm-ish

 

[PFD ALGARVE]

Just had a blip on C4HD but it's back. No way of telling of that was the switchover here though.

 

[iandoh]

What about 12051V (CNN) & 12207V (Sky News)? They went completely blank all Sunday and came back late Monday but much weaker.
Picture breaking up, intermittent lock. Dish size 120cm @Stockholm-ish

Those two transponders always have been the weakest here. Same signal level for me but CNNi are screwing around wit htheir broadcast tonight trying to go widescreen by the looks of tests.

 

[Pedro0102]

Loss signal in channel 5... It started...

 

[Pedro0102]

bbc, itv and ch4 are still on 1N

 

[Pedro0102]

10964H and 10994H are in the 2F
No signal over here.
Everything else seems to continue on 1N

 

[Mr Hoover]

10964H and 10994H are in the 2F No signal over here. Everything else seems to continue on 1N

Yes,the Channel 4 transponder on 1N hasn't swapped over to 2F yet.
1N "Lowband" signals continue as normal.

 

[Pedro0102]

Saw the transponders disappearing in front of my eyes in my spectrum analyser...

 

[Mr Hoover]

Saw the transponders disappearing in front of my eyes in my spectrum analyser...

Bye Bye Channel 5 !!

 

[Mr Hoover]

Channel 4 transponder just left 1N

 

[Pedro0102]

Just 4/7 and Ch4 hd
Ch4 is skill there...