44.5E (Nimiq 1)

[<THOR>]

Source ? I'm looking for details how strong they are and where exactly they are being received.

Well, I´m the source from the facebook page. I won´t be home till wednesday evening, so I´m not able to take screenshots or give any details till then.

 

[deepbluesky]

Great. As I can see in your profile you've got a fixed 1m for 39E/45E. Does this mean that you got 44.5E on this dish which looks to be aimed at 42E ?

 

[<THOR>]

It´s aimed at 39ºE Hellas sat 2. And 44,5ºE comes from the lnb for 45ºE.

 

[deepbluesky]

So 5,5° in the offset and you're getting them. Under these circumstances might be that a 90cm or even smaller would get them at your location.

 

[Analoguesat]

Some tech specs for Nimiq 1

http://www.flysat.com/nimiq1-info.php

Ive got a 1.1m Triax dish on order so Im going to try for 44.5E with it.

 

[Lazarus]

Good luck with setting the Elevation!

 

[Analoguesat]

Cant be much worse than the Orbit 1m which are horrible to adjust

 

[A nonymous]

If your thought the orbital was bad, you haven't seen anything yet. The 1m Triax dishes are just horrible to set up.

Nano

 

[pride21]

hi nelson_b tried this bird but i cannot get any signal what so ever.

 

[nelson_b]

hi nelson_b tried this bird but i cannot get any signal what so ever.

hi -
i thought you might have a better signal further south.
i,m still getting 12312 R 17500 a bit weaker tonight due to cloud -- and the drizzle this morning stopped it locking - so its quite borderline here --

regards --

 

[<THOR>]

Newsflash! This morning there was no signal from Nimiq 1. Now the active transponders are 12224, 12311 and 12341, all with sr 17500 and R polarization. I noticed that when I change the polarization at vertical, the signal becomes weaker. Here are some pictures.

 

[Captain Jack]

Where about in Spain are you?

 

[<THOR>]

Guadalajara, 50km NE from Madrid.

 

[Captain Jack]

Hm, not getting anything here I really wonder whether the footprint contours are on this sat.

 

[Archived-1]

same here c/j nothing, ive stepped backwords and forwards on all 3 tp :-(.

 

[nelson_b]

same here c/j nothing, ive stepped backwords and forwards on all 3 tp :-(.

hi -
try again - if the skies are clear with you tonight --
i,v just been trying with my other setup 1.2 channel master and M3 receiver and i,m getting a weak but constant lock on 12311 -- not enough to scan the channels in yet but i,m hope-full
- its very close ---
regards --

 

[Archived-1]

thanks for that nelson i am getting 20% on 12311 atm :-) using V a little less using H so its working opposite to THOR here i will input the other tp as V and keep an eye on it, i do have cloud cover atm.

 

[nelson_b]

hope the sky clears for you --

i just tried putting the t.p. in as H on the M3 and it was a fraction stronger,
and it grabbed the channels -- i have a slightly pixelated test card showing now -- l.o.l.
but it is holding a lock (just)

odd - as with the 1.8 F15 setup, like you V is a fraction better than H
must just be a l.n.b/receiver thing

cheers ---

 

[Analoguesat]

Is that using the 1.8m dish in your profile nelson?

 

[nelson_b]

no -
this is with the 1.2 channel master / M3 setup
i have a quite strong signal(6.5 db) all the time on just the one transponder with the 1.8 / F15
as the skies were clear tonight i had a go with the 1.2 .