Astra 2E: Testing at 43.5E

[Huevos]

No chance those 80 will be moving to 2E on that date

Why? BTW, just the first 16 transponders (10714 - 10936), currently covered by 1N, carry 168 services, and that's without decommissioning 2A.

Really looking forward to 11778V being on a Pan-European beam, and Sky boxes working properly for the first time ever.

Anyone tracking the beacon?

 

[timo_w2s]

Really looking forward to 11778V being on a Pan-European beam, and Sky boxes working properly for the first time ever.

Maybe for you, me not so much. ;)

 

[Lazarus]

Why?

Pessimism.

Assuming the Testing is over, then we can assume from the milestones achieved by 2F that 2E will not be on station until 25/26/27/ish Nov (We don't know exactly when the transit will commence/has commenced, nor the actual speed in deg/day), which cuts it fine for getting things operational on 28th.

But let's hope they make it on time. I'd be delighted if my scepticism is proved awry!

 

[Marcus_21]

I note that you can also receive the beacon to 11707,5 (polarity L/R).

These are the transponder that I found during testing...

 

[M60]

Back from my hols, here's the latest update to my rolling list. It looks pretty much like the whole spectrum is/has been covered now so we must be pretty close to some physical movement down to 28.2E (kA band permitting of course!)

10714H
10722V
10725V
10729V
10748V
10770H/V
10773H
10788V
10806H
10810V
10818V
10842V
10858H
10862H
10866V
10870V
10872V
10876V
10891H
10905V
10921H
10958V
10964V/H
10970V
10986H
10990H
11011V
11015V
11030V
11054H
11055H
11090V
11117V
11134V
11137V
11384H
11423H
11428V
11437V
11460H
11513V
11523H
11529V
11532H
11532V
11571V
11617H
11620H
11623H/V
11626H
11637H
11640H
11676H
11678H
11704H
11708H
11712H
11720H
11725H/V
11725V
11747V
11750H
11750V
11765H
11770H
11779V
11815H
11817V
11822V
11837H
11842H/V
11856V
11876H
11880V
11895V
11934V
11939V
11941V
11980V
12015V
12036H
12051V
12058H
12101V
12115H
12148H/V
12300H
12304H
12324V
12344H
12363V
12382H
12400V
12402V
12417V
12441V
12460H
12493H/V
12519H
12582H
12613V
12662H
12662V
12665H

Lets hope this is my last update!!

 

[Lazarus]

Good work, M

 

[manosfk]

nice work , thanks a lot

 

[skomedal]

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39285

ATM just adjusting altitude up.

Realise live is not live

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, oddly enough I was going to ask if anyone had any info. Good stuff.

 

[Huevos]

ATM just adjusting altitude up.

At the moment (according to n2yo) it is just at typical Geostationary altitude. When it gets on the move it will be 50-100 km higher than the current TLE says. 35836 - 35886 km above sea level. Next TLE from Celestrack is Monday night so the only way to know anything before that is to track the beacon.

 

[M60]

No worries folks, glad it's of use and a handy future reference for 2G. Looking at it now compared to previous weeks it does seem Astrium have pretty much tested the whole band (with the exception of the EB1 250MHz allocation).

 

[trevortronix]

At the moment (according to n2yo) it is just at typical Geostationary altitude. When it gets on the move it will be 50-100 km higher than the current TLE says. 35836 - 35886 km above sea level. Next TLE from Celestrack is Monday night so the only way to know anything before that is to track the beacon.

Thanks for clearing that up @Huevos, I, remember you saying in the 2E Launch thread that TLE's are not updated at weekends (or that is how I understood it)- so does that mean N2YO are guessing? Current alt. 35790 km according to them.

 

[skomedal]

At the moment (according to n2yo) it is just at typical Geostationary altitude. When it gets on the move it will be 50-100 km higher than the current TLE says. 35836 - 35886 km above sea level. Next TLE from Celestrack is Monday night so the only way to know anything before that is to track the beacon.

Thats why I also posted "" Realise live is not live ""

Handy for us minions that cannot track the beacon

 

[solly]

today was quick signal 11655h 1.5 db and gone

 

[Rickky]

Great work with the updated list. I notice that 12207 H is not there! This carried sky news as far as Cairo. Now I am not expecting much improvement in channel options on the sky platform in this part of the world but let's wait and see ....

 

[Rickky]

Why? BTW, just the first 16 transponders (10714 - 10936), currently covered by 1N, carry 168 services, and that's without decommissioning 2A.

Really looking forward to 11778V being on a Pan-European beam, and Sky boxes working properly for the first time ever.

Anyone tracking the beacon?

If you are correct I will keep my subscription but 12207h was not listed. This was the sky news freq.....

 

[Analoguesat]

Great work with the updated list. I notice that 12207 H is not there! This carried sky news as far as Cairo. Now I am not expecting much improvement in channel options on the sky platform in this part of the world but let's wait and see ....

Well we can guarantee you wont get any improvement in channel selection.....

Do you get anything off the new 2F European beams? If not you may get a nasty surprise when 1N is turned off.

 

[solly]

Great work with the updated list. I notice that 12207 H is not there! This carried sky news as far as Cairo. Now I am not expecting much improvement in channel options on the sky platform in this part of the world but let's wait and see ....

12207v was sky news on 2b it move to astra 1n
now we waiting to know if 1n switch to 2e after start operation

 

[Pietclock]

2E will replace 1N on 28.2 - SES themselves said that last year via their facebook page when people asked about 2F.

 

[Rickky]

12207v was sky news on 2b it move to astra 1n
now we waiting to know if 1n switch to 2e after start operation

Well we can guarantee you wont get any improvement in channel selection.....

Do you get anything off the new 2F European beams? If not you may get a nasty surprise when 1N is turned off.

nope So sky subscription will be terminated after 12 yrs !!!