channels down on eurobird 1 28e

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wod

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My Satellite Setup
1m channel master, jaeger smr1224, Inverto black ultra twin, technomate tm-1500ci, broken receiver vantage x221ci, New additions Skybox F5s and technomate tm-5402 HD arriving soon.
My Location
yorkshire
has anyone else noticed the channels on eurobird 1 are saying no satellite signal received.

seems there is a problem with eurobird 1 then ?

wod
 
signal is coming and going
 
Yep,seems so wod, I'm getting nothing on my minidish, however on the 1m I'm getting a seriously weak signal and just getting a piccie on some tps, eg 11642V, but weak.

EDIT,
checked again.

Now seem to be OK at the moment, see if it goes again.
 
i'm only getting the BBCs,the ITVs the 4s and 5,most of the rest are down,this happened during the week also.
 
Yeah, well those channels are not on Eurobird1, they are on Astra 2D, so not surprising that they are not affected.

Didn't notice a problem during the week though, but still OK right now.
 
The BBCs etc. were breaking up and coming and going about 40 minutes ago but are alright now.
 
totoxj said:
The BBCs etc. were breaking up and coming and going about 40 minutes ago but are alright now.
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As Robbo says they're on Astra 2D not on Eurobird.

There have been reports of 2D reception changes in the fringes such the Canaries but not in the UK area.
 
I'm glad to read this because I thought there was a problem with my setup!

I have a motorised 88cms dish down here in Sussex. At about 11PM last night (Saturday 12 September) all the Eurobird 1 channels that I flicked through were missing.

There was a very weak signal from several EB1 transponders, but it was unusable. This morning the EB1 channels were back, but even about an hour ago I was watching the quality bargraph fluctuate wildly between about 58% and 73%

Could it be a problem with the satellite itself or with the uplink station? Could it be weather-related somehow? Doubt it as it's been nice UK-wide this weekend!
 
Still no zonethriller or moviesfor men and a few others...

EDIT: 13.44 looks like they are all back now.
 
At a guess EB1 depointed for some reason. cant see any obvious official comments on it so far.
 
I had no signal on comedy central +1(127) earlier tehn it came on, but i dont know which transponder its on or if other channels were affected.
 
Zorba said:
I had no signal on comedy central +1(127) earlier tehn it came on, but i dont know which transponder its on or if other channels were affected.
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It's on 11546H and 12643V. Seems normal to me.
 
Well its working fine now. Checked on manual tuning and we cant get 12.643V. 11.546H is okay
 
This has been reported on DS forum by a member called Strathclyde. He is MD for one of the small channels and his info is normally spot on. I was correct with my depointing analysis :D
GlobeCast has been in constant contact with Eutelsat, the satellite operator since yesterday evening and Eutelsat has confirmed that the satellite is currently unstable within its orbital position. This is resulting in the fixed uplink antennas being unable to constantly transmit to the satellite accurately causing intermittent loss to all services. GlobeCast are at this time awaiting further information from Eutelsat who are working on resolving the issue as soon as possible and as soon as we have further information, a further update will be provided.
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That sounds quite serious, is there enough redundancy at that location for channel migration, should the problem not be easily resolved?
 
One would hope that potentially catastrophic failure modes have been considered as part of the operational plan: but Eutelsat are not exactly over-represented by clearly identifiable craft up there. At least SES-Astra have more shuffle room, which is probably no consolation!
 
Have to send a man with a van then :)
 
I suppose they could shunt the slightly dodgy W2M over to 28.2e if EB1 does go completely tits up :D

Lets face it, theres hardly anything of importance thats been broadcast off it at the moment anyway :p

:-beer

Nano
 
nanochickin said:
Lets face it, theres hardly anything of importance thats been broadcast off it at the moment
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I like Extreme Sports... There is quite a bit of stuff but most is +1.
 
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