Amos 5i 17E.and Eutelsat W2M Reunion Beam,reception somewhere in europe posible?

[Turok]

Hello!
on 17 east now is Amos 5i,with some cband and kuband transponder,i dont try this position yet,are the any recpetion reports in the meantime from europe?
for c and kuband?
since the satelite on 16 east eutelsat w2m,has been replaced,after the technical fault of the old "bird",is there maybe now a change,to receiving the reunion beam now with large dishes in europe?
in a old show,dr dish told,was posible long time ago with 3 meter dish,in alacante spain area,i cannot cofirm this,maybe then the satellite was old and lost power,but now is another one,maybe situation,has
changed now?

 

[Llew]

Somebody on another site in the UK managed to pick up the Kurdsat ku channel on 17E a few days ago with a 1.2M dish. I would have thiought that would be debatable given the official footprint of that beam, but he uploaded some pics taken from his receiver, and they look convincing enough.

 

[nelson_b]

yes --surprising -- strong signal here in north yorks on 1.8

nothing here in c band though--

cheers nelson.b.

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[Llew]

Thanks for the confirmation. Could you check during the day sometime nelson_b (or anybody else).

 

[nelson_b]

hi -
i,m even getting a stable picture on 1.2 dish -- even under very cloudy skies --
just realised i cant check C band properly as the C band l.n.b. i,m using at the moment has a fixed dielectric plate --( co rotor) which spoils the reception for weak linear C band signals --

regards nelson.b.

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[Llew]

Interesting. I'm supposed to be nearer the footprint than you, and can only see a pimple on my spec. analyser with my 1.2 dish, def. no signal on any of my receivers.

 

[nelson_b]

Interesting. I'm supposed to be nearer the footprint than you, and can only see a pimple on my spec. analyser with my 1.2 dish, def. no signal on any of my receivers.

it is most odd -- footprint map must be wrong -- surely,

i just had another go - fine tuning the polarisation/skew on the C band co rotor
and got a borderline signal -- so without a dielectric plate i,m sure it would be quite good ---

regards nelson.b.

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[dx qwer]

Hello,

KurdSat now on 12375 H 2990 3/4 in DVB-S MPEG-2 (PAL).

Best regards
Edgar.