Thaicom 2/5 @ 78,5 East

[Kveys]

3742H 3000 Southern tv (Ethiopia) DX Bozóth listed it as Thaicom 6 Africa beam! It coming here about 4 dB, so just under locking (fec 3/4). But NEW beam anyway and I will catch it some day...

 

[Hixxy1]

Since last year, a lot of the Thai channels have been encrypted in BISS. It's only there to make sure that you buy their freesat decoders, which are only £15 for the HD boxes.

Might bring one back to England with me which'll be useless as we can't get thaicom in England


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Lasseparabol]

3742H 3000 Southern tv (Ethiopia) DX Bozóth listed it as Thaicom 6 Africa beam! It coming here about 4 dB, so just under locking (fec 3/4). But NEW beam anyway and I will catch it some day...

I hade some more succés and got 5dB and lock

 

[mar-val]

Nice signal from regional beam. Thai TV 3.

 

[Kveys]

3803V Thai Tv 3 also here stronger than usually, about 5.7 dB when mostly something between 4-5 dB. Stable picture now.

What might be around 3770V - 3785V? Blindscan give 2-3 deb signal from there. 3880V 30000 or something else?

 

[Hixxy1]

CH3 have always had the strongest transponders. They must pay the most to thaicom.

If anyone needs any help, feel free to give me a shout. Got a 2.4m here in Bangkok.


Sent from my Nokia 3310 using Tapatalk

 

[Kveys]

Tentative: 3715V ABC TV Nepal.

Locked but not picture though. Signal about 4.5 dB and Vpid 101/ Apid 256 as it should be. My Technomate says FEC 1/2 but it would "open" if this would be true, so maybe 3/4 still..?

Thaicom 5 Regional.

 

[Kveys]

3545H 2083 SLNTV Testing. No logo on screen and also different programme as 3640H showing. Thaicom 5 Global beam I suppose.

 

[Kveys]

4007V 15000 something without lock so far. About 3.5 dB here. Regional beam anyway..?

 

[Hixxy1]

Can check tomorrow if I remember


Sent using Tapatalk

 

[mar-val]

Look here.

 

[hvdh]

Thaicom 5 has communications anomaly, services are being moved to other satellites.

Thaicom Migrates Thaicom 5 Satellite Customers - Thaicom

Thaicom Public Company Limited announces progress regarding a technical anomaly on the Thaicom 5 satellite which resulted in technical limitations to monitoring the status of the satellite, as reported earlier by the company.

www.thaicom.net

 

[Analoguesat]

14 years old so near EOL anyway.

 

[Analoguesat]

Thaicom 5 may be drifting. Shes at 78.57E atm

Real time satellite tracking for: THAICOM 5

Track satellite(s) THAICOM 5 and see where are they located now. Check when there will be the next pass over your location

www.n2yo.com

 

[hvdh]

No drifting yet, still within the usual +/- 0.1° range.
But the usual fortnightly correction that should have been on December 30, was delayed until January 7.
So now inclination of almost 0.1° is a bit more than usual. Let's wait what the next correction brings.

 

[hvdh]

Thaicom to complete migration of customers from Thaicom 5 - Thaicom

Thaicom Public Company Limited reports progress on its ongoing efforts to migrate customers from Thaicom 5 after the satellite suffered a technical anomaly. The migration of the company’s broadcast customers from Thaicom 5 to Thaicom 6 will start on 15 February 2020.

www.thaicom.net

No orbit correction since my previous post, so the inclination is increasing (about 0.15° now).
Drifting will be to the West probably, but not accelerating much because this satellite is close to the gravitational well at 75°E.
I wonder if they will be able to passivate this satellite.

 

[italy2006]

C band coverage of thiacom 5 include many regions while thaicom 6 hasnot beam same as thaicom 5. so many channels will be lost in western asia.

 

[zorbua]

Tried Thaicom today 78.5 Eas with my 105Dish...Got 3 Transponders with 41 services

 

[hvdh]

According latest TLE, Thaicom 5 is being raised to graveyard altitude.
Also this news here: THCOM De-orbit "Thaicom 5", ฿222mn of Impairment Fully Booked in 2019 • ข่าวหุ้นธุรกิจออนไลน์

Thaicom Public Company Limited (THCOM) has announced in reference to the notification to the Stock Exchange of Thailand dated 18 December 2019, 16 Jan 2020 and 11 February 2020 regarding the Technical Incident on Thaicom 5 Satellite, the specialist has made the recommendation that the Thaicom 5 Satellite shall be de-orbited because of the unsuccessful restoration after several attempts to restore the system.

After the last attempt to restore the system on 23 February 2020 and the system still could not be restored, it was, therefore, indispensable for THCOM to de-orbit the Thaicom 5 Satellite. The de-orbit was successfully done at 4.52 p.m. of 26 February 2020. THCOM recognized full impairment of the remaining book value of the Thaicom 5 Satellite of Baht 222 million in the financial statement for the year ended 31 December 2019.

 

[Analoguesat]

Thaicom 5 was successfully junked on Feb 26th.