eutelsat 9b reception signal

[MCelliotG]

I find it really strange, the beam has a very wide opening, I'm about 300km from the last 49dbW fleet and I have more than 16db on that frequency! Are you sure you tuned it with root+8 enabled?

 

[satesco]

I'm pretty sure I enabled root+8.My problem with this beam is that I don't have any signal on the vertical 12341,as you can see on spectrum. Seen very clearly that I have no trace of useful signal at this frequency,with root+8 enable or not!
I appreciate that the distance from my town and up to the edge of the footprint to be over 800 Km.BTW,there are so many curiosities at receptions,in good or bad,that I am no longer surprised at anything.But in this case I think that Italian beam do not reach really in my area.I would like to be wrong ;)

 

[MCelliotG]

I see, perhaps the footprints were designed in ways we haven't seen really! Concerning the nordic beam I'm no further than you are from the Italian beam, you receiver the former, I receive the latter, so anything is possible!

 

[Kypros_Pambou]

In my case the distances of the 2 Beams (Italian & Nordic/Baltic) are the following:
1. Italian beam stops at 49dbW (1350km NE direction from my location) and the reception with 2.1m is 9.5-10dB and with 3.4m is 12.3-12.7dB.
2. Nordic-Baltic beam stops also at 49dBW (850km N direction from my location) and the very strange situation(very closed freq. with the same polarity) at this beam is that i can receive the one of the two frequencies and on the second with no signal at all =12111v
(12149=6.1 &7.4 dB with my 2 dishes).

 

[4wd]

^^^ to add to the mystery, 12149 is clearly much weaker here than 12111 !?

One detail... the vu+ solo2 blindscan refuses to find any transponder on 12111, have to enter 'user defined' settings + manual scan to find the (very strong) signal.
The Vantage hd8000 blindscan correctly picks up 12111.

 

[Captain Jack]

Here's what I am getting here on the 1.8m here.

 

[Captain Jack]

I just realised 12344 was multistream, so did a rescan:



Just about locking it.

 

[Captain Jack]

Better weather today, so 12340v is stronger:

 

[Captain Jack]

Have 12111V and 12148V left? not getting anything there.

 

[hvdh]

Yes both transponders are off.

 

[MCelliotG]

12111V is back, on a different beam now! There is a test channel that I receive with about 16.3db, can't tell if it's Greek, Italian or Euro beam!

 

[hvdh]

Well indeed, 12111 V now 10 dB, in the previous beam it was 8 dB.
(The other V transponders are 16...17 dB )

 

[Captain Jack]

Nordic beam? Only 7.5dB here on the 1.8m.

 

[MCelliotG]

If the previous transmission was in Nordic beam, then this one is certainly not, as I couldn't receive a single trace before and now it's booming. For what it looks like, it should be Italian beam!

 

[Captain Jack]

Could be. I was getting over 8dB on it before but no lock - now only 7.5dB but with a lock.

 

[4wd]

12111 V, nonexistant up here.

 

[hvdh]

Nothing up there North, then indeed this might be Italian beam.
Parameters by the way, 12111 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S, so an easy threshold at 3.1 dB.
Something weird though, can't lock it in Crazyscan blindscan mode, need to manually enter 27500 for a lock.

 

[Archive4]

According to my stb it is 5dB hear most of the time, but dropping to 3.8 occasionally causing slight break up. Could not see anything before.

 

[deepbluesky]

Pretty strong here: CrazyScan says 14.6-14.8dB. Since Ita and Eng audio is shown it might be on the Italian Beam.

 

[hvdh]

Also, this same colour bars with "Mode Test" scrolling in it, can also be found in the Italian multistream on 12341 V.