Newsnet on Ka Band A

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I will have to see if I can get the PC to do it. :-)

 

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[John]

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Nice to see your lnb is still alive Chris, bad news .... the overlay is back

 

[scopus]

No matey, i was thinking of you ;)

Huh...I know when I'm not wanted...

 

[John]

Huh...I know when I'm not wanted...

Darling, i know you monitor the totty as much as me so it's took as a given that i don't need to remind you..... anyway , the overlay is back and obscuring our view again

 

[scopus]

Newsnet burning brightly tonight...

 

[John]

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.... She's on fire all right

 

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12db with my dr hd.

 

[John]

.... bit of a different 18GHz / 18.557V Newsnet ID tonight from the usual

 

[tony smith]

Hi John
Looks as if the Once mighty ITN now run on "George" over parts of the weekend, well at least for the ITV
local stations support.

Tony Smith

 

[John]

Hi John
Looks as if the Once mighty ITN now run on "George" over parts of the weekend, well at least for the ITV
local stations support.

Tony Smith

Could well be Tony lol, seems to be back to the norm now

 

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ITN Newsnet screenshot

 

[John]

.... Just a bit of useless information to pass on, Newsnet @ 18.557 V has been off air / no carrier for nearly 8hours & counting.

 

[tony smith]

Hi john it looks as if the ITV/ITN SNG Ka band satellite service via SIS Live, is now not working over weekends.
Only week days.
Two lower level carriers up on your Spectrum display are the Comms circuits for the SNG trucks

Which receiving dish is that a spectrum trace from? CM1.8?
Your level is about 9db on the 18.561 carrier which I would expect off the 1.8

 

[scopus]

The Newsnet feed sometimes goes off air at weekends, but not for a very long while. I saw a SIS93 feed up earlier though..

 

[John]

Hi john it looks as if the ITV/ITN SNG Ka band satellite service via SIS Live, is now not working over weekends.
Only week days.
Two lower level carriers up on your Spectrum display are the Comms circuits for the SNG trucks

Which receiving dish is that a spectrum trace from? CM1.8?
Your level is about 9db on the 18.561 carrier which I would expect off the 1.8

Evening Tony, the receive dish on this occasion is a 1.2 Gibertini with a XMW PLL lnb. I haven't got 18GHz on my 1.8 CM at the moment.
The trace is from spectrum software from forum member vma, i can give you a trace from the Promax if you need to see it.
That's interesting then, like the bit about the comms channel, would like to decode that somehow ..... any ideas lol.

 

[John]

The Newsnet feed sometimes goes off air at weekends, but not for a very long while. I saw a SIS93 feed up earlier though..

Yep, saw SIS93 doing it's thing covering the womens rights thing ..... biggest collection of errr --women iv'e seen ever. lol.
Is Newsnet still off Chris, I'm looking at 21GHz at the mo.

 

[scopus]

Yep, saw SIS93 doing it's thing covering the womens rights thing ..... biggest collection of errr --women iv'e seen ever. lol.
Is Newsnet still off Chris, I'm looking at 21GHz at the mo.

Yes, still off. May return overnight, but probably be Sun night before it returns, usually the case when it goes off on a Fri night

 

[tony smith]

Hi John
Yes I think ITN still use SIS Segment over the weekend ,SIS 93 is a ident uplink used by ITN.
No that spectrum trace is fine, I was just looking at the level of the Comms carrier, at 18.561, thats from the Media City Teleport at Manchester, ITN's regions news control room channel is the missing carrier at the moment, normally around 18.556 Ghz ish. This uses their 5.6 meter uplink on the roof at Grays Inn Road ITN's headquaters.
As to decoding comms not sure what system they are running, the Ka band kit was all from a French Telecoms company

Tony Smith

 

[tony smith]

Yes John here's a spectrum picture from my 1.8 CM during the week