7w Atlantic Bird 4A

Looks good. How about Nilesat 101/102 ? Which frequencies are weak in your area ?
 
deepbluesky said:
Looks good. How about Nilesat 101/102 ? Which frequencies are weak in your area ?
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For now, I can say that ab4a (except 12418V and 12476H) is stronger than Nilesat 101/102. On Nilesat, for example, I cannot receive Fox Movies but I can receive Fox Series and MBC channels without any BER.
I will give a more detailed report when I have more time.
 
Yes, that's what i've expected. Further South in Thessaloniki you can get AB4A even on a T90 centered at 19.2E without any losses. But the Nilesat 101 Verticals even cannot be received all on 1.20m. Further West a 1.20m is sufficient for all 101/102. So AB4A is much easier than those old birds.
 
From here (38.5ºN, 0.5ºW) I can receive 8 FTA channels on 10930H on the 150cm. Nothing on the 80cm though.

I probably can receive lots more but this is the only transponder I checked when answering another thread last night.

According to the map on the Eutelsat site I'm well outside the 40dbW zone so in theory I shouldn't be able to receive this at all.
 
I've just checked Nilesat 101/102.
I cannot get clear picture on any transponder on Nilesat 101.
Signal is locked but there's too much BER (over 4000) on both horizontal and vertical TPs.
On 102, I can receive vertical TPs with no BER in the morning and very little BER in the afternoon and evening.
Horizontal cannot be received, too much BER:
 

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In the south east UK, there is an outside chance of receiving a couple of H transponders on as low as a 1m dish in the evening currently. These are 12226 H and 12303 H; they lock enough to get picture, sound and channel name but do break a lot.
 
I am in the Canaries, with an 85 cm dish , motor drive and televes box. Just last week I lost the fatafeet, MBC Persia and some other channels, is this related, and where do i have to point the dish to find them again?
Tahnx guys

BTW, I had the dish pointed at Nilesat for the above mentioned....at 7 w, has AB4 moved to 3.75 as mentioned at Lyngsat news page?
 
There has been a satellite swap and the new satellite coverage is far less favourable for western Europe.

There have also been some frequency changes, so check the frequencies you are scanning:

_http://www.flysat.com/abird4a.php

If the frequencies are correct then chances are you need a bigger dish.
 
Antenna1, Sorry to hear about the loss of ESPN channels. I too have lost them in West Africa. Unfortunately it does not look like there is much hope for regaining them at this point. I am just not willing to go to a bigger dish and I am not sure it would help based on the footprint.

_http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/7wab4a_popd.html Here is the link to that footprint.
 
bigtee said:
In the south east UK, there is an outside chance of receiving a couple of H transponders on as low as a 1m dish in the evening currently. These are 12226 H and 12303 H; they lock enough to get picture, sound and channel name but do break a lot.
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ok. but this is not ab4.
this is nilesat...
 
any reports on what size dish we will need to pick this up in lanzarote as i see the footprint does not cover the canarias many thnx in advance
 
phonedoctorlanz said:
any reports on what size dish we will need to pick this up in lanzarote as i see the footprint does not cover the canarias many thnx in advance
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Which satellite?
 
Wait until next week. They are launching the replacement for that satellite. My guess is you will get it with a 90cm dish no problem.
 
Nilesat 201 which is supposed to be launched on Aug 4th will replace Nilesat 101 for sure. As far as i know AB4A will be replaced in autumn 2011 by AB7. So i fear you will have to go on living with that til then. Unfortunately i have no information of which dish size is needed in Lanzarote for catching all AB4A frequencies on 24h basis.
 
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