Astra 2E: Canaries & Africa Reports

[Lazarus]

Why do you think these have gone to 2A as opposed to 2E Tivu?, excellent figures here, strength on inputs 1 and 2 100%, quality on 1 and 2 90%.

Common consent from many observers in various fringe locations. Have a scan through the General Discussion Topic (Albeit it turns out that one of the Transponders does indeed appear to have gone to 2E: 12363 V).

 

[timo_w2s]

Why do you think these have gone to 2A as opposed to 2E Tivu?

That is the big question. I would have thought 2E could have taken most of the channels along with a few on 2F. Maybe they will eventually move, maybe down to logistics at the ground stations or maybe we need to wait for 2G to come online and take over some channels.

 

[Lazarus]

Ah yes: Just realised milestone's question can be read two ways - hence two different answers!

 

[milestone 11]

Thanks to you both, Tivu and Timo. Yes, my question was asking why they would do such a thing rather than doubting the correctness of Tivu's statement.
Is 2G likely to have similar capacity and ability to E and F?.

 

[barryt]

I'm getting 25-30 more channels today, including,
Sky Arts 2 HD
Sky Arts 1 and 2 SD
Sky Sports 3and F1 HD
All Sky Sports SD
All Sky Movies HD
Film 4 HD
Pick TV
National Geographic HD
Many others.
Why do you think these have gone to 2A as opposed to 2E Tivu?, excellent figures here, strength on inputs 1 and 2 100%, quality on 1 and 2 90%.

I'm getting 25-30 more channels today, including,
Sky Arts 2 HD
Sky Arts 1 and 2 SD
Sky Sports 3and F1 HD
All Sky Sports SD
All Sky Movies HD
Film 4 HD
Pick TV
National Geographic HD
Many others.
Why do you think these have gone to 2A as opposed to 2E Tivu?, excellent figures here, strength on inputs 1 and 2 100%, quality on 1 and 2 90%.

 

[timo_w2s]

Thanks to you both, Tivu and Timo. Yes, my question was asking why they would do such a thing rather than doubting the correctness of Tivu's statement.
Is 2G likely to have similar capacity and ability to E and F?.

Yes, the big difference with 2G is the Europe beam is wider and less concentrated on the UK, which is why I'd be a little surprised if it gets used much. The UK spot should be very similar to 2E and 2F though.

 

[pro satn]

can we know your setup in tunisia please ..many thanx

I'm from a Tunisian nationality
I work in the south of Algeria(400 km south of the Algerian capital Algiers)
Assure that all 2A North received here

 

[Lazarus]

What type and size of dish and other equipment are you using?

 

[FRINGE]

Yes, the big difference with 2G is the Europe beam is wider and less concentrated on the UK, which is why I'd be a little surprised if it gets used much. The UK spot should be very similar to 2E and 2F though.

Surely they would not have designed it that way, or would modify it to a narrower Europe beam, if this was the case ?

 

[Pietclock]

Yes, the big difference with 2G is the Europe beam is wider and less concentrated on the UK, which is why I'd be a little surprised if it gets used much. The UK spot should be very similar to 2E and 2F though.

Dont forget the Eutelsat - SES Agreement. Eutelsat will rent capacity from SES and offer it on "their" band 11.2-11.45. Maybe Eutelsat made it a condition to have a footprint available that covers what their own satellites covered before.

 

[pro satn]

Dish size:1.20m
LNB :starsat

 

[FRINGE]

Dont forget the Eutelsat - SES Agreement. Eutelsat will rent capacity from SES and offer it on "their" band 11.2-11.45. Maybe Eutelsat made it a condition to have a footprint available that covers what their own satellites covered before.

Makes sense.

 

[pro satn]

Now
Sky UK:10876 V
Sky Sports Active 1/2/3/4/5 - Nickelodeon UK
Nickelodeon UK +1 - NickToons UK - Nick Junior UK
Baby TV-Sky News Arabia
start on:12266 H 27500

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

Now
Sky UK:10876 V
Sky Sports Active 1/2/3/4/5 - Nickelodeon UK
Nickelodeon UK +1 - NickToons UK - Nick Junior UK
Baby TV-Sky News Arabia
start on:12266 H 27500

That looks like a pretty good stab at the situation based on some observations I made this morning. I will double check when I get home.

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[jacko]

just scanned my box and already picking up new channels on a my 1 meter dish with vu solo
s/sports 3 and sky formula 1 are some.
also itv2,3 and 4 on i meter dish.
dont know about itv 1 yet,still looking
and sky news is back

 

[solly]

Dont forget the Eutelsat - SES Agreement. Eutelsat will rent capacity from SES and offer it on "their" band 11.2-11.45. Maybe Eutelsat made it a condition to have a footprint available that covers what their own satellites covered before.

maybe ses waiting to astra 2c back to 28.5e
back up transder from eutelsat mid march

 

[solly]

the data will be move from 1n to 2f or to astra 2e ?

 

[oldfart]

scan from a year agotoday's scan

 

[MARK]

Found this on my travels....

http://skyinmadrid.com/pages/news.html

 

[Lazarus]

Yes, it's often referred to: One of the better publications that collects, collates and regurgitates relatively accurate and unbiased info (A bit like a Forum, I suppose!)