Atlantic Bird 3 Questions

satmonkey

Hi,

I'm fairly new to some of less popular European satellites and am having a hard time understanding what's going wrong. Any advice is very much appreciated.

I'm trying to move my motorised dish to Atlantic Bird 3 at 5° W. I seem to have located the satellite and have good signal strength with my 90cm dish in Switzerland.

I can successfully tune in to ...

Atlantic Bird 3 (5.0W) - 12585.00 H - Txp:KA8 - Beam:LargeDVB-S (QPSK) - 27500 2/3 - NID:272 - TID:900

... but when I try to tune to ...

Atlantic Bird 3 (5.0W) - 12711.00 H - Txp:KA11 - Beam:LargeDVB-S (QPSK) - 30000 1/2 - NID:65535 - TID:1

... I get no reception.


I'm sure I've misunderstood something. Any help would be great. I've got a 90cm Kathrein Dish, a Universal LNB and a Humax PR-HD 1000.


Thanks,

-ME-


http://en.kingofsat.net/tv-5W.php

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I think the two frequencies use different beams, 12585 uses the 'super' beam while 12711 uses the 'wide' beam. If you look at the technical site for Eutelsat

http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/5wab3_popd.html#

You will see that, in Switzerland, you get a slightly weaker signal, maybe enough to affect your reception.

satmonkey

You're right. My mistake. On KingOfSat's website, the beam is shown as the same but on Lyngsat, it's shown as Super vs. Wide.

I guess if it's only the signal strength, I can go out on the balcony again and try to wiggle a bit :-)