Astra 2F at 28E (at last!)

[neilD]

Somebody of the SES facebook page (In Tel Aviv) say lost UK beam, anybody confirm?

 

[william-1]

No, just 28.2E

The 28.5E business with Eutelsat hasn't been resolved yet, as far as I know.

No conclusion to be reached until October 2013 if Eutelsat win the case for 28.5 east Astra 2G may have a different mission at another location.

-http://www.eutelsat.com/news/press-releases.html

-http://www.ses.com/13222152/announcement

 

[Lazarus]

Somebody of the SES facebook page (In Tel Aviv) say lost UK beam, anybody confirm?

Well solly would be the best person to advise on that.

 

[dvdfilm]

channels are still working

 

[solly]

it very strnage no testing color bar and test transponder before working

 

[dvdfilm]

solly you still get the uk beam?

 

[tothbros]

absolutely no change in reception in budapest, hungary. all the uk beam tp's show the same signal quality as before.

 

[BlindFaith]

Here all transponders are received with the same SNR as before. I can't possibly tell wether a switch-over from 1N to 2F has taken place..

 

[solly]

dvdfilm@

it down for now
i will be back at evening

 

[tothbros]

my reception report just a couple of days ago around the same time of the day matches the numbers i see today. there is no way the new satellite is that equivalent

 

[Satellite74]

they will most likely carry out the switchover to 2F during the night. I think that's how they did it with 1N too...
although they might as well do it in the afternoon... programmes like Jeremy Kyle are dispensable if something goes wrong :-hammer

 

[Lazarus]

So the by now syndicated Worldwide report from SES is probably either premature or incomplete or both.

We wait.

 

[dvdfilm]

solly thanks,waiting for your evening report.
looks like despite the press release all tps are still the same

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

Surely they would do some test transmissions on TPs currently unused on 1N before migrating any channels.

 

[andrewcrawford]

no switchover as yet

 

[Satellite74]

Surely they would do some test transmissions on TPs currently unused on 1N before migrating any channels.

but I am sure they must be testing something at the moment... they're not just going to let that bird idly sit there until the weekend and then throw a switch to migrate the channels... right?

Can't somebody do another crazyscan?

 

[andrewcrawford]

but I am sure they must be testing something at the moment... they're not just going to let that bird sit there until the weekend and then throw a switch to migrate the channels... right?

Can't somebody do another crazyscan?

i have but its all quite now, there was some activity last night but nothing in the morning at 7am when i retested

 

[andrewcrawford]

Surely they would do some test transmissions on TPs currently unused on 1N before migrating any channels.

they might be using the frequency on current afirca beam or testing on the africa beam possible me beam

 

[Lazarus]

Well I've update my OP on the currently Locked Operational Signal Reports Thread, but am not going to give free rein to it just yet.

Does not currently compute!

 

[Andy_Madrid]

i may pull a sicky and go home early.... squeeky bum time.