In addition to the GTMedia Combo, I have also been using an Octagon SF8008 for scanning the frequencies from 39.0E.
For those who like to have receiver tuner comparisons, I am finding that the Octagon SF8008 is consistently maintaining a lock at times when the GTMedia Combo loses the lock.
All of the feeds so far from the Middle East beam with SR4000 had an FEC of 5/6 and were 8PSK.
These parameters need a theoretical signal level of 9.4dB to achieve a lock which makes them unfriendly to dx'ers located in the UK and also a decent test for a receivers tuner.
The same frequencies seem to be getting recycled daily for feeds by different uplink crews, to be expected I suppose.
Today I locked a new feed on one of the previously used feed frequencies (11553H)
The new one is 11552 H, SR4000, FEC 5/6 and ID of TV-101.
A few screen grabs of this new one taken from a GTMedia Combo receiver are attached below.
The updated list of locked frequencies is as follows:
1. 11466 H, SR7000 (three channel mux of Kuw002, Service Name and Service Name)
2. 11474 H, SR4444, ID = TANDBERG - RAS
3. 11516 H, SR2000, ID = default ID of 11516H SID 0x01
4. 11543 H, SR4000, ID = SNG04 Chain A
5. 11543 H, SR4000, ID = ADM SNG-03 Chain A
6. 11548 H, SR4000, ID = ADM SNG-06 Chain A
7. 11552 H, SR4000, ID = TV-101
(new today)
8. 11553 H, SR4000, ID = SNG5 Chain A
Location: Surrey, UK
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