What sat does the lottery use?

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geordiejohn

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My Satellite Setup
Sky sd and penta 85cm motorised with ancient spiderbox 900HD
My Location
uk
Most (all?) shops selling lottery tickets have a medium size dish with an unusual (to my eyes )LNB, I presume it is something to do with the security of the tickets,any one know what sat it's pointed at?

Is it a 2 way thing? Don't worry,i am not interested in cracking it, just curious!
 
Their VSAT system uses 10E (Eutelsat W2A) via 90/100 cm Dishes, using Hughes Network Transponders 11513 V 30000 5/6 and 11586 V 10000 3/4
 
Yes it will be a 2 way system. Chances are the info is transmitted via 10E

Edit - beaten to it, although W1 was replaced by W2A months ago!
 
The LNBs and BUCs are Norsat type, apparently. Horizontal Elliptical Feedhorn.
 
They also use 33 East, you can tell which one they are on by the degree of dish skew.
 
Raven 74cm dish, according to the proposal below.

_http://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/planx_downloads/08_0257_form_and_proposal.pdf
 
rolfw said:
They also use 33 East, you can tell which one they are on by the degree of dish skew.
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That would make sense - use 2 different birds then you dont lose the entire data transfer infrastructure if one satellite goes off air with technical failure.

No doubt the retailers in any one particular area are spread over the two satellites.
 
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