Astra 1N chat - January 2012

[Mr Hoover]

Hi

3 transponders on both polarisations have moved to 1N for sure.

10,729 V, 10,758 V,10,906 V and 10,714 H,10,832 H,10,891 H.

Hugh

 

[Analoguesat]

There will be tears in the weetabix in Cyprus this morning

 

[roberto mafara]

Well what a bonus for me unfortunately loss for u Beef
Now I can get all these channels

Signal between 11.5 -12 DB

 

[satelliteman]

Will have to get a reception report from the Canaries on the aforementioned transponders.

 

[DragonSat]

Reception in Naples good on all these 1.25m Echostar dish.

Come on BBC, when are you moving over.

 

[Beef]

Boooo. But in the spirit of being a good loser. You guys need it more than us. At least they don't dub in Sweden! Enjoy!

 

[Zorba]

Well for us here its another nail in the coffin. Seems all FTA ITV and CH4 from 2D have been switched off except BBC on 10.773/10.803 H. Also RTE on 10.744H still there.
We can still get ITV's on 12.402V and CH4 on 12.480V with a freesat card.

 

[timo_w2s]

Come on BBC, when are you moving over.

Nooo.... it's going to hurt when 10818V leaves as we use that for the strongest signals for BBC 1 and 2.

Boooo. But in the spirit of being a good loser. You guys need it more than us. At least they don't dub in Sweden! Enjoy!

Screw that. Can't we share the channels evenly between 1N and 2D? ;)

 

[DragonSat]

We can still get ITV's on 12.402V and CH4 on 12.480V with a freesat card.

But for how long

 

[Pietclock]

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here you can see the new 1N transponders, I marked all 1N transponders. The signal level difference is quite clear. I think the BBC hasn't moved because they would need an extra uplink antenna for 1N, which would mean three different satellites.

 

[fergyc]

How many engineers will be running round realigning to 27.5W then? For now...

 

[xoro]

1N ready ahoy! Cast off the beeb, me hearties!

 

[terryashbyash]

Does anyone know if all of these transponders are at full strength yet as I seem to remember the channel 5s and early itvs were a bit patchy to start with but are now rock solid here in gandia, spain. If these transmitters are at full strength can someone recommend a better lnb, got a cheap €15 one at the moment. ITV 11050 signal strength 61 quality 97% for info and using a 1M dish and digital 1200 CI.

 

[satelliteman]

Spectrum view from the UK; and TBH, looks pretty such the same as.

 

[timo_w2s]

Does anyone know if all of these transponders are at full strength yet as I seem to remember the channel 5s and early itvs were a bit patchy to start with but are now rock solid here in gandia, spain. If these transmitters are at full strength can someone recommend a better lnb, got a cheap €15 one at the moment. ITV 11050 signal strength 61 quality 97% for info and using a 1M dish and digital 1200 CI.

Can't go wrong with a Inverto Black Ultra LNB. Plenty of talk about them on these forums.

I've noticed the signal quality on the new 1N transponders in the 2D range isn't quite as high as the older 1N channels in the 2C range for me in the UK.

 

[timo_w2s]

Spectrum view from the UK; and TBH, looks pretty such the same as.

Even yours look slightly less.

 

[C0re]

Only 10832 and 10906 are as strong as the the frequencies in the 2C range. The other frequencies are just slightly lower.

 

[timo_w2s]

Here are my quality readings on a TM6900, South East UK:

10714H: 84%
10729V: 83%
10744H: 76%
10758V: 82%
10773H: 75%
10788V: 74%
10803H: 78%
10818V: 79%
10832H: 82%
10847V: 73%
10862H: 77%
10876V: 78%
10891H: 79%
10906V: 82%
10921H: 76%
10936V: 80%

10964H: 90%
11053H: 90%
11127V: 90%

 

[satelliteman]

Tend not to rely too much on receiver quality readings, but does give an indication.

 

[timo_w2s]

Tend not to rely too much on receiver quality readings, but does give an indication.

Yes, I agree. I just posted them out of interest. Also the LNB may be more sensitive at certain frequencies.

Will be interesting to hear from a few more people on the real fringe who just about manage to get Channel 5 and Channel 4 HD with smaller dishes.