bandnews on intelsat 9

[emirelias]

Toronto is @ long 79 lat 43 , can I get that channel here? What dish and Lnb I can use?

 

[brentb636]

It's a C-band channel, on the Americas beam, and you should be able to hit if you have the Line Of Sight. Minimum 6 foot dish and standard C-band lnbf should work. 8 foot dish would give more certainty. I tried for it from Michigan, but there's an evergreen in the way !

 

[Davage]

I'm in London Ontario (West of your location) and am able to tune in that channel on a 7.5ft C-Band dish with a Coolsat Free-To-Air receiver. Any standard C-Band LNB and Free-To-Air receiver should get the channel for you. A 6 ft dish is minimum, but bigger is better. I'm pulling in about a 60% signal quality on that satellite with a 7.5 ft dish. You may want to consider 7.5ft or bigger.

Edit: I just did a blind scan of 58 West. (Intelsat 9) and the channel Band News shows as being a scrambled service, but it is currently in the clear (as noted on Lyngsat). I don't know if the channel plans on turning the encryption back ON or not in the future.

 

[emirelias]

thanks for the info.I will follow trough.