The transponder 12012 V 29500 FEC 3/4, which used to be on 2B North beam, has been definitely moved to 2A North beam. The reason for such conclusion is that, although it seems unbelievable, both the 2A & 2B North beams are lockable here in Yerevan (South Caucasus). Currently I manage to receive it with approximately 1.7db weak signal strength, but it is still watchable. Whereas transponders 12070 H ; 12090 V and etc. have shifted to rather narrow 1N Pan-European Beam-1 and not to 2F cause in that case they would be received with 1m standard offset dish in Instanbul, over which 2F European beam has small side-lobe, but in fact they are not.
Also share the viewpoint of some of our forum members that the ultimate aim of SES is to transfer 2B to 19.2 E where it is doomed to end up its designed lifetime. Moreover, At least 2B's shift to 19.2E is desirable 'cause after the retire of 1H almost the whole band F (12100-12500 BSS) is put on 1M europe beam heavily overloading its capacity (rather undesired outcome). But 1M satellite is primarily designed to cover band-E (11700-12100) and band-B (11450-11700) all frequencies of which were made to shift to 1KR, so that 1M could cover the 12100-12500 range in "emergency situations" which is now the case. Thus, 2B can effectively take up that as well as 2C high-band frequencies.
On the other hand, regarding the 1N satellite, SES have decided to make the best use of it as long as it stands in this location. This'll enable SES to gain some time to smartly organize the arrangement of valuable BSS transponders' allocation and implement simultaneous transfer to 2F and 2E when itbecomes fully operational at 28.2 degrees.
