Receiving Eurobird 9A (now Eutelsat 9A) on a DVBViewer

[rileyrodders]

Hiya

I have recently retired and now have time to play at satellites again. About 2 years ago, after not being able to get onto Astra for Freesat because of my neighbours house partially blocking it, I swung the dish I bought to Hotbird 13, and with a sat 'beeper' within about 15/20 mins I had pulled in about 1850 channels. I felt very pleased with myself, but work pressures meant I did not bother with sat. until now. I checked that Hotbird was still ok, then after doing a bit of research, elevated the dish a little and swung the dish towards Eurobird 9. Again using the beeper I peaked the dish, but on going to my computer and doing a scan on DVBViewer, I only get about 50 % of the transponders. I changed the LNB and cable, but to no effect, downloaded DVBViewer Pro with the latest (I think) transponder lists, but no better. So I hired an Horizon Satmeter which showed Eurobird 9 'found' with a signal strength of about 58/60% and Quality about 85%. I have spent hours 'twiddling' but still only getting around 50% of the transponders. Is the above signal quality and strength ok, and should I be looking at a tuner or other problem? I don't want to be beaten by this problem, but my lack of knowledge is hindering me. Can anyone help?

Cheers, Steve

 

[Analoguesat]

Hi Steve, welcome to the forum.

Eurobird 9A (now Eutelsat 9A) puts out a very strong signal on most of the frequencies. This is the current frequency list:

-http://www.flysat.com/e9a.php

 

[rileyrodders]

Thanks Analoguesat

I don't get a lot of those transponders. The Eurosport channels would be good, and the frequency and other details of that transponder seem to be in DVBViewer's tranponder list, and it appears to scan them, but does not pick any channels up. Do the signal strength and quality seem ok to you? The Technisat seemed to pick all the Hotbird channels with ease. Please bear with me, I am enthusiastic, but lack knowledge. I have spent hours on the net trying to find a solution as I don't like to be beaten.

 

[Analoguesat]

The Eurosport stuff is encrypted & only available with a subscription.

At a guess you are getting the standard definition stuff. Have you got all the parameters right for the high def stuff?

For example take 11900H. This has 6 channels on it, but 4 are encrypted. The two EBS channels are available though.

The parameters are :

DVB-S2 8PSK

 

[rileyrodders]

I would subscribe to Eurosport if I could get the channels LOL. In the DVBViewer options I have the DVB-S2 ticked. It picked up the encrypted channels on Hotbird so I can't understand if the problem is at the dish end or the tuner end.

 

[Analoguesat]

Did it pick up the DVB-S2 channels on 13E?

 

[rileyrodders]

Yes, all of them I think. A hell of a lot of them anyway. Most of the channels on Hotbird seemed to have an encryption symbol at the side of them. Are you leaning towards a tuner setting or software problem? I see you are on the Scottish borders, what size dish do you have to pull in 9E may I ask?

 

[Analoguesat]

An 80cm dish is fine for 9E here. Ive actually got a 1m dish though as I also watch the news feeds on 10E

 

[rileyrodders]

OK thanks for that. It sounds like my signal strength and quality should be ok on an 85cm dish. I will try and figure out how I can measure individual frequencies with the Horizon Meter (if possible).
I might try and borrow a different tuner if I can find someone in the Halifax area willing to lend me one.

 

[rileyrodders]

Problem solved using TransEdit:- some wrong FEC values in DVBViewer ini. files. Thanks for your help Analoguesat.

Steve

 

[Analoguesat]

Problem solved using TransEdit:- some wrong FEC values in DVBViewer ini. files. Thanks for your help Analoguesat.

Steve

Glad to hear it was a simple fix Steve. Dont worry - we have all done that at some point - its an easy mistake to make on receivers or pc cards