31.5E (Astra 1G)

Lazarus

Lazarus

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My Satellite Setup
80cm Motorised.
Several small Dishes.
Much else.
My Location
North York Moors
I thought I'd take a look at 31.5E with my 80cm dish, having noticed Astra 1G has a West Beam.

Anyway, a Blind Scan came up with one single FTA TV Channel

Diver (It's a Wallpaper type placeholder, with Video of a Diver floating through Tropical Fish)

11429 V 10099

Problem is, it isn't listed as a valid 1G TP, nor does it seem to belong to any Bird there or thereabouts!



Any ideas?
 
Aha!

Now I see: Flysat has it as Test Card Left 16.01.2014

Well it hasn't left and, as you say, is very strong.

80cm dish in rain set 1.6 deg off.

Thankyou :D
 
I get a few feeds from here at time's tivu its worth scanning every now and then, around 5 oclock today a football feed is usually on, are you picking the $ polsat channels up ?.
 
Well I've corrected the Azimuth from 31.5E to 33.1E and my Tuner is nigh on smoking on "Diver"!
 
martin-f said:
I get a few feeds from here at time's tivu its worth scanning every now and then, around 5 oclock today a football feed is usually on, are you picking the $ polsat channels up ?.
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Just checking 31.5E again (I generally don't scan for $, but am doing so now)
 
Tivù said:
Just checking 31.5E again (I generally don't scan for $, but am doing so now)
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Excuse me while I quote myself.

On 31.5E proper, I'm getting the square root of a cocoa tin on the 80cm.

Can't deploy George as the 1.1m doesn't have LoS.

Edit: With dish at 31.5E, I've also got a couple of Eut 33A $ Channels coming in:

Turf TV & TTV Al on 11650 V 10097
 
If it's the same video as on Eutelsat 3A @ 3.3° East then it's definitely Eutelsat 33B:
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Yes, that's the chap ;)
 
adonis1 said:
I'm sorry it's not 19.5 db .:-doh:-doh

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Well here I could do with an attenuator at front end. But seriously I should think that the Satellite guys should tell the customer earth station to lower the uplink Power to a pre-determined level as per contract.
 

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Rohde & Schwarz test loop :) They have a few including one with a Castle.
 
The new mux/altered mux 11758 H 27500 was coming in strong last night.
Its was an easy lock on my 1mtr if anyone wants to look, here is the other fta channel capionet

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It's very strong in Helsinki too, stronger than the others from this position.
 
timo_w2s said:
It's very strong in Helsinki too, stronger than the others from this position.
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Maybe Astra 2B is in use now for some transponders?
Although 2B and 1G are 0nly 0.16 degrees apart, I wrote down the dB values when pointing to 32.0 East, then moved to 30.7 East.
11758 H and 11934 V came in the same, while the other transponders (Orange Romania) became 0.5 to 1 dB worse.
Also, 11758 H and 11934 V are about 3 dB stronger than the others here.
 
Blimey thats strong! -Im getting 33B on a marginally misaligned 80cm dish pointing at 36E!

(I tripped over the cable last night when trying to get Azersat back......) When the drizzle stops I shall realign it back to 36E

No sign of Diver - just Turf TV & TTV AL1 on the specified tp.
 
martin-f said:
The new mux/altered mux 11758 H 27500 was coming in strong last night.
Its was an easy lock on my 1mtr if anyone wants to look, here is the other fta channel capionet

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Just managed to lock these ,real borderline with a bit of pixellation. I'm well chuffed as i've never got anything from this bird before!
 
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