Eurobird 9A

[mehdisa]

anyone tested ?

EUTELSAT DOUBLES ITS BROADCASTING RESOURCES AT 9 DEGREES EAST WITH


DEPLOYMENT OF THE EUROBIRD™ 9A SATELLITE


Paris, 24 February 2009

Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announces the entry into commercial service of its EUROBIRD™ 9A satellite at 9 degrees East. Redeployment of the satellite was made possible with last week’s entry into service at 13 degrees East of HOT BIRD™ 9, which released EUROBIRD™ 9A (formerly HOT BIRD™ 7A) for its new commercial mission to support the rapid pace of growth at Eutelsat’s 9 degrees East broadcast neighbourhood. It will replace EUROBIRD™ 9 at this position, doubling operational resources from 20 to 38 transponders.


The smooth transfer of 175 television channels and 25 radio stations onto EUROBIRD™ 9A was completed at 01.00 GMT this morning by Eutelsat’s control centre, working closely with broadcast clients and providers of uplink services.


Opened in May 2007, Eutelsat’s 9 degrees East neighbourhood has, over a period of one year, seen a two-fold increase in the number of programmes it broadcasts with the launch of new TV-programme bouquets such as Hello HD from Hungary, Platforma DV from Russia, and Roots Global, which is aimed at Indian communities across Europe. With its close proximity to Eutelsat’s premium HOT BIRD™ neighbourhood, it is possible to watch channels from both neighbourhoods with a single DTH dish equipped for dual-feed reception.

The 9 degrees East neighbourhood is also developing into a key location for delivering channels to cable operators via the KabelKiosk service operated by Eutelsat’s German subsidiary.

 

[Moradabad]

anyone tested ?

What are the channels on that satellite, any good package please let me know the frequency

 

[Analoguesat]

Frequencies:

_http://www.flysat.com/ebird9a.php

9E is a fascinating orbital slot - theres a lot of interesting stuff appears on there - a Bolivian channel appeared a couple of days ago!

9E is known for abrupt channel changes so dont be surprised if a channel you get to like suddenly disappears!

Although EB9A is the old Hotbird 7A India may find the coverage less - rememeber the bird is 4 degrees further west so the coverage footprint will be moved westwards.

 

[BombedOne]

too bad it's impossible to mount a multifeed to it, while 13E is center one.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ive got a perfectly good 9E multifeed off my 13E dish. The LNB is held in place with cable ties & bits of wood!

 

[Analoguesat]

Official coverage area for EB 9A:

_http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/9e_eb9a_popd.html

 

[Moradabad]

Official coverage area for EB 9A:

_http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/9e_eb9a_popd.html

Analoguesat some friend of mine confused me he says Eurobird 9A foot print map is different than Hotbird 7A is that correct ?

 

[Analoguesat]

Slightly different yes

Hotbird 7A - _http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/13ehb7a_popd.html

Eurobird 9A - _http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/9e_eb9a_popd.html

 

[BombedOne]

I assume you may have 60cm or similar dish, where's focus is not so sharp. Here we have to use at least 120cm for hotbird, to have stable reception during bad weather

 

[Moradabad]

lets wait and watch now we are able to get or not

 

[mehdisa]

In Iran signals are much stronger than before.