Ses Want Frequency Of Eutelsat

[solly]

astra 2e beam of Mideast 12500-1275oo like Africa beam astra 2f ?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjZkTwSuJ21zdFMxeUJ5a0NWWGttZG5Jc1VneU9UNWc&output=html

 

[M60]

astra 2e beam of Mideast 12500-1275oo like Africa beam astra 2f ?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjZkTwSuJ21zdFMxeUJ5a0NWWGttZG5Jc1VneU9UNWc&output=html

I wonder if the Middle East beam will use the same allocation as that of West Africa as at 28.2E it must be well out of the way from BADR's TP's at 26E as guess there would be interference issues with smaller dish sizes? Not sure how high up the TP's in use at 26E are, will look on kingofsat now!

 

[Analoguesat]

Right up to the top although 12683V is the highest freq in use for broadcast channels.

 

[timo_w2s]

I wonder if the Middle East beam will use the same allocation as that of West Africa as at 28.2E it must be well out of the way from BADR's TP's at 26E as guess there would be interference issues with smaller dish sizes? Not sure how high up the TP's in use at 26E are, will look on kingofsat now!

I already thought about this a few days ago but there isn't much that Badr isn't already using. There is a block of frequencies from about 11.20-11.45 horizontal only that aren't used as far as I can see.

 

[M60]

Right up to the top although 12683V is the highest freq in use for broadcast channels.

Yep, just had a look. There's some inactive TP's down the bottom of the band too around 10.8 GHz but we'll have to wait and see. Maybe they've cut a deal to use the 12.5+ GHz of spectrum if Arabsat move their TP's there to current lower vacant allocations?

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

hello,

so what's the educated guess, will sky move their pay channels to a uk beam?

It would not surprise me if SES have adopted a policy of not offering spot beam TPs to Sky thus avoiding putting BSkyB into the position of potentially having to justify refusing them ;-)

 

[Huevos]

It would not surprise me if SES have adopted a policy of not offering spot beam

They are not going to mix pan-continental beams and spot beams on the same frequencies. That means 12500 - 12750 is going to be spot beam.

Right up to the top although 12683V is the highest freq in use for broadcast channels.

For the time being.

 

[Analoguesat]

11953 H
11973 V
12129V
12422 H
12441 V

are all powered and SR 27500 2/3, although theres no channels scanning in.

I assume channels arriving on them is imminent.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

11953 H
11973 V
12129V
12422 H
12441 V

are all powered and SR 27500 2/3, although theres no channels scanning in.

I assume channels arriving on them is imminent.

Someone's getting some nice Sunday overtime. Looks like they are really moving on this.

Not sure if this is a valid test, but if I set the default TP on my DRX890 to 11953H I get 100% signal and over 90% quality. Looks very promising (2.4 m dish in Gran Canaria).

 

[solly]

all tp astra 2a
I think 12422h it north beam

 

[timo_w2s]

Not sure if this is a valid test, but if I set the default TP on my DRX890 to 11953H I get 100% signal and over 90% quality. Looks very promising (2.4 m dish in Gran Canaria).

Yes, that's the 2A south beam so should be pretty good your way. It's probably only going to be used for 10 days though.

all tp astra 2a
I think 12422h it north beam

12422H should be 2A south.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

Yes, that's the 2A south beam so should be pretty good your way. It's probably only going to be used for 10 days though.

Ah. I see. These ones could be semi-permanent until they move 2A though surely. Isn't 1N likely to move as soon as 2E goes into service or will 2A also move then I wonder.

 

[timo_w2s]

Ah. I see. These ones could be semi-permanent until they move 2A though surely. Isn't 1N likely to move as soon as 2E goes into service or will 2A also move then I wonder.

In the long term chances are that frequency will be used by 2E.

I think 2F is going to take most of the old Eutelsat channels once the rearrangements are done on the 4th Oct with some dual illumination until the 10th.

 

[peeter3000]

11953 H
11973 V
12129V
12422 H
12441 V

Estonia Tallinn 125 x 140cm
11953h S100 Q60
11973v same
12129v s100 q65
12422h s0 q0
12441 v s0 q0

 

[timo_w2s]

Estonia Tallinn 125 x 140cm
11953h S100 Q60
11973v same
12129v s100 q65
12422h s0 q0
12441 v s0 q0

If you have no signal on 12441V and 12422H that suggests they could be on 1N. For me in the UK the signal comparable to 2A.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

If you have no signal on 12441V and 12422H that suggests they could be on 1N. For me in the UK the signal comparable to 2A.

12441V is fine here but not as strong as the lower frequencies so if it is 1N then it is UK spot. We can't get 1N pan-European.

 

[timo_w2s]

12441V is fine here but not as strong as the lower frequencies so if it is 1N then it is UK spot. We can't get 1N pan-European.

Well it's slightly down by a few % compared with the regular 1N UK spots for me, but it is at the other extreme of the band so maybe I can't tell here near London.

 

[timo_w2s]

Another bunch of Eutelsat transponders have been copied over to Astra this morning:

10.979GHz/V is now a copy of 11.527GHz/V
11.082GHz/H is now a copy of 12.523GHz/V
11.112GHz/H is now a copy of 12.560GHz/V
11.141GHz/H is now a copy of 12.607GHz/V
11.171GHz/H is now a copy of 11.546GHz/H
11.954GHz/H is now a copy of 12.607GHz/H
12.129GHz/V is now a copy of 11.662GHz/H
11.973GHz/V is now a copy of 12.560GHz/H
12.402GHz/V is now a copy of 11.623GHz/H
12.441GHz/V is now a copy of 12.643GHz/H

 

[timo_w2s]

12.422GHz/H is now a copy of 11.681GHz/V

 

[Agorima]

I am wondering if the decision to assign that frequency block will affect other orbital positions than 28,2-28,5 east.