Rare feed on 20W

[Llew]

News feed from South Africa, NSS7 11032H SR6670 FEC 3/4. Mandelarama. Don't these guys ever sleep?

 

[Costactc]

Just about ready to scan Nss 7 as I've been told that there are about 5 western feeds on this sat which I have never scanned on ku. I hope the 40cm of snow which fell overnight doesn't affect reception.

 

[Costactc]

Scanned in:

11709 H 4619
11898 H 4622
12174 H 4112
12180 H 4623

Western footprint.

 

[Llew]

Nothing here for me now Costactc. Maybe different coverage area?

 

[Costactc]

Nothing here for me now Costactc. Maybe different coverage area?

No doubt...feeds were for the Mandela funeral which must be over by now.

 

[Llew]

11032H 6670 feed back on again.

 

[zorbua]

Was having a quick go at NSS7 20W and am baffled that I got a tp having a global coverage whilst nothing from the East Hemisphere.
Now the Global coverage according to Flysat&Lyngsat is about 34db in my geographical location, which is zilch here, yet I am getting this TP with a 1.59db and holding steady whilst the others from the East Hemi nothing!

 

[Archived-1]

I am only locking one TP at my location, AL NABAA-TV 12735 H 1500

 

[zorbua]

I am only locking one TP at my location, AL NABAA-TV 12735 H 1500
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Oh I am getting that Martin no problem but as regards C:Band I am only getting TP 4130R DVB-S2 QPSK 12120 1/2 which has a Global Footprint

 

[Archived-1]

I don't have a C/Band setup at the moment zorbua, but that will be next fabricating job, once I get the KU/C/Band dish up,

 

[zorbua]

I don't have a C/Band setup at the moment zorbua, but that will be next fabricating job, once I get the KU/C/Band dish up,

Lovely Martin looking forward to it.

 

[Captain Jack]

Was having a quick go at NSS7 20W and am baffled that I got a tp having a global coverage whilst nothing from the East Hemisphere.
Now the Global coverage according to Flysat&Lyngsat is about 34db in my geographical location, which is zilch here, yet I am getting this TP with a 1.59db and holding steady whilst the others from the East Hemi nothing!

THANKS! New C-band position logged Though, it's very weak...




I understand what you mean about beams and I see this on a number of C band sats. Either they are reported incorrectly or signals are just stronger... Mind you, 1/2 FEC goes a long way into helping lock these TPs.

 

[Captain Jack]

Btw, I blind scanned the satellite on the Uno and it also picked up data TP 3954R on the east hemi beam though there's nothing on there obviously.

 

[zorbua]

Yes Jack signal is really low, very surprised how lock is so steady possibly as you sat the symbol rate of 1/2 says a lot, Btw I also picked up another TP not marked anywhere - doing blindscan with DB 8000 but the freq comes out as 6184 H Sym Rate 3679 2/3. There are 3 channels - Atlantic - News - Sports - signal is better 5db I believe, but of course can't open them.

 

[Captain Jack]

Atlantic/News/Sports mux is from 22W and is quite strong here.

 

[zorbua]

Must be very strong Jack to be able to pick it up 2 full degrees out....Thanks thought it to be an unnamed TP.

btw are you picking up 40.5 W? Picking quite a few myself from that Sat

 

[Captain Jack]

Yes, lots of channels on 40.5W. TPs picked up depends on the day but I generally get about 30-odd transponders.

 

[zorbua]

Indeed quite a lot, I got about 51 channels on my Dreambox from this Sat and 3 channels from 34.5W.

 

[Costactc]

Normal scan of Ses 6, with dilectric plate inserted in my lnbf, yields approximately 128 open channels and over 90 tp.

 

[aceb]

Was having a quick go at NSS7 20W and am baffled that I got a tp having a global coverage whilst nothing from the East Hemisphere.

Strange results from this, I get two transponders from the Eastern hemi beam 3913V and 3982V, both have similar SQ readings in Dream of 88/17. The SNRs are 6.2 and 5.2dB respectively. 4130V is 83/66SQ but only 4.9dB SNR.