Flysat site closing down

Yeah - its been my go to site since it started. A clean design, nice & easy to use.
 
It will represent a significant loss ... listing some types of carriers no other site does.
 
I' m sorry to see this site go,it has accompanied my satellite knowledge for such a long time.
The reason seems to be the webmaster's health condition.
We wish him a quick recovery.
 
rodscha said:
I' m sorry to see this site go,it has accompanied my satellite knowledge for such a long time.
The reason seems to be the webmaster's health condition.
We wish him a quick recovery.
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Where did you hear that ?
 
Quelle fromage :oops:
 
Channel Hopper said:
Where did you hear that ?
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The health condition is something I mention in personal emails; I'm not the only one, some of us also have more limitations.
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La condición de salud es algo que comento en correos personales, no es el único, algunos acusamos mas "limitaciones" también.
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Apart from what has been discussed in this thread, the website/IP address in Spain is blocked and causes many problems.
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Aparte de lo comentado en este hilo, la web/IP en España esta bloqueada y da muchos problemas.

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Thread 'This afternoon when I tried to access Flysat.com I had problems, it's not the first time, but this time it's just laughable.'

This afternoon when I tried to access Flysat.com I had problems, it's not the first time, but this time it's just laughable.
Good.
This afternoon I found your IP (Flysat.com) blocked by hacking issues, I put the translated poster, put a claim if you can to whom it corresponds, a greeting, take care of yourself.

Note.- It is not the first time that they suffer attack of denial of service blocking any update of the frequencies of this website, now according to the League, they encourage hacking with two cushions.
The message is in Spanish, I leave a translated version.
By the way, firefox...
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Apparently the person is ready to "hand over" the site ... if there's anyone willing to invest knowledge, some money & time.
I'd be glad to join but ... I am at odds with IT/computing.
 
Maybe it could be a very good investment for the admins of satellites.co.uk to include the flysat pages here?
Also, it would represent a very big step forwatd for our community. Did you consider that?
 
7mdish said:
Maybe it could be a very good investment for the admins of satellites.co.uk to include the flysat pages here?
Also, it would represent a very big step forwatd for our community. Did you consider that?
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I don't think there'd be the will to do it, generally,the satellite business is dying, as is the terrestrial aerial business, Sky have been looking at ending satellite broadcasts in four or fibve years time if fibre roll out is complete in that time, as will I'm sure, many other satellite services.
 
I just checked flysat.
Last update is 27 jan
Still there ,but static.
You need to launch the search twice,& cross the "I m Human" box to access Flysat.
 
rolfw said:
I don't think there'd be the will to do it, generally,the satellite business is dying, as is the terrestrial aerial business, Sky have been looking at ending satellite broadcasts in four or fibve years time if fibre roll out is complete in that time, as will I'm sure, many other satellite services.
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I second this comment from RolfW - and remember the staff here are completely voluntary & most of us have a paying job which has to come first. I very much doubt anyone can make a living from the adverts income a hobby site like Flysat will bring in.

Here in Europe satellite tv as a hobby is in terminal decline. Its going the way of ham radio - the older guys are getting elderly & infirm - dying off even - and theres very few youngsters coming in at the bottom to fill the gaps. I was at a ham radio rally a couple of years ago. There must have been over 200 people in the room & I reckoned the age profile was 75-80% in their 70s or above. There was less than a dozen folk under 50......

Even here on the forum its noticably quieter than it was even 10 years ago. Old timers will remember the chaos in the Portuguese section 15 years ago every time the bloody keys rolled on they pay tv service - we would spend hours deleting posts, banning miscreants & generally clearing up!
 
7mdish said:
Maybe it could be a very good investment for the admins of satellites.co.uk to include the flysat pages here?
Also, it would represent a very big step forwatd for our community. Did you consider that?
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I also second Rolf's response, let's be honest here would you be a volunteer Admin (on a state pension) then fork out good money for something with a five year lifespan and no future?
 
And if anyone disagrees that the hobby is in terminal decline in Europe just think back to how many of the satellite tv sites & forums we all used to frequent have shut down in the last few years. Im sure everyone on this forum could name 2 or 3 quite easily.
 
Last year Allente signed a long term contract with distributor Telenor which means the distribution by satellite for the Nordic market will continue for many years to come.
Telenor will launch a new satellite (Thor 8) aimed for 0,8W 2027.

I would think the Germans will continue satellite distribution for quite some time too.
 
Nalleman said:
Last year Allente signed a long term contract with distributor Telenor which means the distribution by satellite for the Nordic market will continue for many years to come.
Telenor will launch a new satellite (Thor 8) aimed for 0,8W 2027.

I would think the Germans will continue satellite distribution for quite some time too.
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The cost of launching GEO satellites as dropped significantly since Space-X became a thing. As a byproduct the cost of insuring against launch damage has followed.
 
A lot of people say that there's no future in satelliet TV since everyone will have fiber soon.
Especially here in the Benelux it is quite true, but there will always exceptions and mobile users like mobile homes and ships.
Although internet via mobile data or LEO satellites will be an option for them, but will that be usable for streaming video since that will take up a lot of bandwidth and is data unlimited?

But in a lot of other countries it is not that easy to get fiber everywhere and is mobile coverage also not everywhere guaranteed, especially in areas which will not get fiber.
Also internet, even via fiber, is not always without data-limit. In some countries you have to buy data-bundles.

Maybe it is wishful thinking, but at least there is, for some countries, still a future for satellite-TV.

And about ham-radio. There are indeed a lot of "old grey men", but I also see a future in f.e. the hackerspace/makerspace community.
I have attended a couple events to promote courses to educate yourself to become a licenced ham-radio amateur and some very young guys are interested in radio, although maybe for other purposes then before, but still not dead.
 
We've still got Astra 1Q to go up in 2027 too. I don't think our hobby will die off any time soon but I do think our choice of channels from certain parts of Europe will diminish over time.
 
Nalleman said:
Last year Allente signed a long term contract with distributor Telenor which means the distribution by satellite for the Nordic market will continue for many years to come.
Telenor will launch a new satellite (Thor 8) aimed for 0,8W 2027.

I would think the Germans will continue satellite distribution for quite some time too.
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I don’t think this is binding. Space Norway (not Telenor Satellite, since Telenor sold its satellite business) is simply stating that capacity will be available, and Allente is welcome to use it, which Allente is happy with.

As an Allente subscriber, I’m happy that Allente operates in three countries and cannot exit (hopefully) satellite broadcasting in the short term. They do not broadcast only to households; they also provide feeds to other operators, to cable TV networks, as well as collective distribution solutions for housing associations, hotels, and similar operations.
I’ll keep my subscription since the picture and sound quality are some of the best available in Scandinavia (if they don’t exit the business).

Satellite broadcasting is widelly used and it is primary method to distrubute channels in countries like Germany and Turkey. I agree with you that it will remain in use for quite some time.

I’m really sad to see FlySat closing. It has so many rare and hard-to-find frequencies, all thanks to us to the satellite hobbyist community. It will be hard to find another source where all that information is gathered in one place
 
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