Hispasat 36W-1: In-Orbit Testing at 26W

[John]

As @satosk would say, i'm fishing in two new Ka sea's at the moment trying to catch something , 42.5° East and now 26° West temporary slot.
As i am rigged at the moment, only the 1.25 Gibertini installation looking at 42.5°E has monitoring for band B and band D but will not come round to cover orbital slots greater than 1°W upwards.
The other "rod", the 1.8CM is looking at 26° West temporary slot but only has Ka band D monitoring, so can't fish for 19.2 to 20.2 fish at the moment. I might have another modded band B Hughes lnb somewhere that i could put on the 1.8 ?.

Spare Hughes Ka band B 19.2 to 20.2 GHz lnb found ..... any educated guess's most welcome to wether i rig it for linear or circular sigs for beacons or test carriers

 

[hvdh]

All Hispasat/Amazonas Ka-band is circular so far. Good luck (you'll need that)!

 

[John]

All Hispasat/Amazonas Ka-band is circular so far. Good luck (you'll need that)!

Cheers @hvdh ... Old English saying----"where there's a will there's a way" ..... wish me luck lol.

 

[pontiend]

One at 12667H now.
TBS6983 100cm Dish.

 

[Anonymous_1]

11695 V right now

 

[satesco]

12586 V-test carrier

 

[william-1]

 

[pontiend]

Another one.
11533 V
TBS6983 100cm Dish.

 

[pontiend]

And another one.
12510V.
TBS6983 100cm Dish.

 

[william-1]

TM5302HD + 88cm

 

[william-1]

88cm dish

 

[william-1]

 

[Lazarus]

This will be Hispasat 36W-1, that arrived at 26.0°W about 2 weeks ago for in-orbit testing.
(For those who may wonder what this is about).

I've changed the Topic title to suit ;)

 

[satesco]

12706 H_I confirm this one

 

[pontiend]

Still here.I get it at 12704 H.
I presume that this is the same transponder.
TBS6983 100cm Dish.

 

[william-1]

Still here.I get it at 12704 H.
I presume that this is the same transponder.
TBS6983 100cm Dish.
View attachment 104288

Yes looks like it I think we get slight variations due to tuner Lnb calibration.

 

[hvdh]

Thanks for all reports so far!
Trying to create a frequency plan already for high band.
What I know of Hispasat 36W-1: total of 20 transponders, either 33 or 36 MHz.
The H transponders continue on the Hispasat 1E plan: 33 MHz transponders with 38.36 MHz separation.
The V transponders are 33 MHz as well, but with another offset with regards to H.
See the table below, transponders in yellow were reported already.


Assuming 12 * 33 MHz transponders in 12.5...12.75 GHz ranges, leaves only 8 * 36 MHz for elsewhere.
So far reported (please correct if wrong or incomplete):
11533 V, 11613 V, 11695 V (beacon?)
11967 V, 12048 V, 12086 H, 12167 H.

 

[william-1]

Here is a list of all the active transponders found so far by members here & reported by Satesco & myself:-
FlySat Hispasat 36W-1 @ 26° West

Still waiting for the last one to be added to this list.

 

[hvdh]

Thanks william-1! Looked again at pontiend's reports, i think he had 11967 V, 12086 H and 12167 H.
The opposite pol. is much weaker, the usual cross-polarisation that easily shows with strong carriers.
You may want to correct 12086 and 12167 at flysat.

 

[william-1]

Thanks william-1! Looked again at pontiend's reports, i think he had 11967 V, 12086 H and 12167 H.
The opposite pol. is much weaker, the usual cross-polarisation that easily shows with strong carriers.
You may want to correct 12086 and 12167 at flysat.

All updated & corrected now FlySat Hispasat 36W-1 @ 26° West