It's not a rumour, it is fact. There were 3 reports of activity in band D during testing. Most likely they were bogeys, as they were uncorroborated, but still very real for the people that registered them. All the others mentioned in the list I posted above were confirmed from multiple locations.C0re said:
11778V SNR 1.5M 55% ( Astra 2A North )Huevos said:SD -> 12207V. There is no way this is on 2A. Compare to a typical 2A transponder (11778V -> EPG Background Audio).
11778V -> SNR = 41%
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12207V -> SNR = 81%
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Values using a 1.8m PF dish.
also here in istanbul down with 170 cm
This is interesting to me in the sense that you feel you can focus on each sattelite despite their same orbital slot on the belt. My installer told me something similar that he could see that he could focus for 2F and 1N as the dish position was different ,, the difference only being leaning on the dish with a finger .. but he was adament he could see a difference on the analyzer.. i thought it was a bit unlikely to be true.Di Trana said:
If SES get their way Eutelsat will have drastically reduced coverage from 28E next year - Eutelsat will only have 11200-11450 MHz with SES taking over 12500 upwardsAHMET_YILDIRIM said:
It's not true, at least not with a 1.5m dish. You can see Eutelsat 28A and the Astra satellites are not in the same place but Astra 1N and Astra 2F are only 0.03º apart. What you do see though is best signal to noise is in slightly different directions. But this is not due to the satellites being in different positions, but that 1N signals suffer from interference from Badr5, while 2F signals don't.davidcmadrid said:
From n2yo, Astra 1N is at 28.2 E in this moment and 2F is at 28.32 E, 0.12º apart . It's a big difference if you are in a fringe area. Here it's very easy to spot the difference of position of the 2 sattelites with a 3m dish . Even with a smaller dish should be possible to spot the difference.Huevos said:
As I understand it that isn't exactly realtime - the exact positions on that site are a best guess and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I stand open to correction!DX Excalibur said:
You would need a very big dish to show it. In the target area they are all minidishes. I have aligned hundreds of dishes in the 1.8-2.4m range with a pro-level meter and I can assure you that even at this dish size 0.1º is of zero consequence. In the case of a 1.8m dish the 0.25dB contour is 0.3º wide. Also on a 1.8m dish 0.1º equates to moving the rim of the dish 1.5mm. What this guy sees when he presses the rim of the dish is the effects of distortion, not a change in alignment.davidcmadrid said:
Nothing to correct about what you said. But that doesn't make TLE-based predicted positions (n2yo etc.) totally useless.hairybadger said:
