45.5 to 61 C band

[PKII]

Are there any channels that are on any satellites between 45.5 and 61 C band that a FTA system can receive? I've never found anything on any of those satellites not even the signal to actually find the satellite. I do have a clear line of site to all of them. Anything worth trying to find?

 

[phlatwound]

There is a bunch of ITC stuff on 58W C-band. A lot of it is in Spanish, but quite a bit of English-speaking also. A lot of the channels can be found elsewhere on the arc in either C or Ku-band

I was going to ask the same question of what is east of 58W last week, will be interested to see what kind of replies you get here.

 

[PKII]

Thanks. In Spanish would be perfect. Not that I can understand it yet but if I keep watching it I'll figure it out maybe.

 

[phlatwound]

The signals seem to be pretty strong here, from that sat, on most of the tps

I can't see 58W with my only BUD that is cabled into the house, but in the last 2 weeks I have went outside and hooked up my 8.5' Birdview solid and my 7.5' Unimesh mesh dishes, both worked well on 58W.

I think the signals start getting scarcer once you go east of 58W, hopefully someone will tell us different.

 

[cracklincrotch]

There are plenty of signals east of 58w. Many however are circular polarity instead of linear, but not all.

Network muxes tend to be encrypted, of course. Lots of what I might call ethnic channels, meant for South/Central America, Africa, and the Middle East.

There is one English channel on NSS10 @ 37.5w called Metro which is out of Ghana IIRC. had a soccer match on it the last I looked months ago. But that's as far east as I can receive with a linear only feed. I can see signals on the SA as far as 22w with my actuator on the west side of the dish mount.

 

[PKII]

I'm only using a 6 footer would that make a difference in finding the signals? I am not using circular right now.

 

[cracklincrotch]

I don't know how well a 6' dish would work for you because I've never used a dish that small.

Look at Http://Lyngsat.com/atlantic.html to see what's available far east and see what you can actually pull in. If the satellite is circular you won't get anything unless it's a very strong signal, if at all.

 

[jibaro29]

It will work just fine. I get everything on that Bird.

 

[Babadem]

It will work just fine. I get everything on that Bird.

What Bird are you referring to?

 

[jibaro29]

58.0 W Babadem.