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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    BYU is actually a bit stronger than BVN. However, the big difference is the FEC - BVN is 1/2 in QPSK, so it's about as tolerant of weak signal as it gets. It needs only 1dB to lock. On the other hand, BYU is FEC 2/3 in 8PSK, and that means it needs at least 6.6dB to lock. Right now I'm getting...
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    my receivers indeed won't recognize those Dish transponders, even if I use a circular LNBF, and I can only see them on the spectrum analyzer and judge the difference visually on the spectrum plot. And yes OntParl is also the only thing I receive on that satellite.
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    I doubt it... as far as I know, the 2nd connector is only used for monitoring the LO frequency
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    I can but it's much much weaker than the other transponders (by about 7dB if I remember correctly). So unless it's just a very weak transponder on CONUS beam, I'm thinking it might just be that I'm a bit outside of the footprint. The spectrum plot below is taken with a linear LNBF, so of course...
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    77W for sure, should be an easy target. I think the Ontario Parliament channel on 72.7W might be a lot more difficult, as I think it's on a beam that does not extend much south of the Canadian border.
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    you can also try 45W - just for fun as I think the only TV channel there is Telesur. 30W and 34.5W are indeed much more interesting.
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    from western CT, with a side-mounted Titanium C1W-PLL with dielectric slab, on a 10-ft Winegard Quadstar: AFN mux: stable reception at 7.2dB, plenty of margin ANUVU mux (4132R30000): 4.7dB, and it requires 4.0 dB to lock, so not much margin. I know I can also receive both with an 8ft dish...
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    my take (I might be wrong) is that it's likely a combination of both. We know that E.B. has modified drivers to allow low SR since TNAP 5.1, for specific tuner hardware. But the Octagon 8008 has been known for a while to also have low SR abilities, it's been reported in the past, maybe at...
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    Where Am I?

    Not always FTA though. While there are a lot of FTA channels in Europe, the majority of the Satellite broadcasts are encrypted and require either a subscription, or an other form of access control (for example, a decoder that is only available to residents of a specific country). The big...
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    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    no the bias-T is only needed if you use it with receiving equipment that does not have the ability to inject power (like when I use my SDR)
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    oh i would have loved to see France2 UHD!
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    Rest NTSC mode on Octagon SF 8008

    I'm also thinking that might be the case. Kinda reminds me of the problem I had with my Edision OSmio Plus a few years ago. It would boot up, I would get the logo but then black screen. I eventually found that if I navigated to the video mode menu and just changed anything, it would usually...
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    that's weird, I have not had any problem, with my Amiko miniHDre or with my Edision MIO receivers.
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    Right now 8.2 dB now that I think of it, I have that dish connected through a multiswitch and then a diseqc 1.1. I wonder if that has much impact on my reception quality
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    Is Anyone Receiving Intelstat 35e ?

    Hey iBoston, did you notice a degradation of signal quality since the days of my LNBF review? If I remember correctly I was getting up to 12 dB on the France24 transponder, but these days, with the same Inverto LNBF I get at most 10 dB (that's on a 90cm FortecStar, so a bit smaller than your...
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