Cuban MUX on Hispasat 30W not working OK

[hd fan]

Hi, All. I thought about asking here too. Since 3 days ago all the Cuban channels on Hispasat @ 30W are nor working properly. I seems intermittent , suddenly signal starts jumping down and up for a few seconds or even minutes sometimes. Sometimes it stays ok for several minutes or longer periods but the funny thing is the rest of the transponders are perfect ad even with clear skies here in Toronto and in Jaruco, Mayabeque, Cuba where I think they Uplink the signal so I really suspect is not my local issue. It all started 2 nights ago, I think around 1 AM or 2 AM, I was watching the movie Gone Girl on Cubavision and suddenly I lost all signal form only that cuba multiplex or transponder. The rest were all perfectly fine and the night was full of stars. Back in the morning the signal had come back but I think it had that issue of being jumpy all the time or maybe I did not check long enough to notice it. I am surprise that after almost 3 days the cuban engineers have not fixed it so maybe it is indeed a local issue in my setup only affecting the cuban mux and not the rest of the transponders on Hispasat 30W.

Can someone please check that cuban mux at Hispasat 30W (11884 V 27500) to confirm it is not a local issue on my setup?. I also asked over at the other forum , and gently someone replied the signal seem to be fine but then again sometimes you kind of have to wait for it to fail or show problems apparently. It seems to me it is an origin or source problem rather than just locally at my setup Thanks in advance.

 

[N5XZS]

It's hurricane that struck Cuba and poor government system trying to keeping thing up and not working thanks to their outdated electrical systems that are probably 50+ years old.

Simply put they are falling apart...

 

[Jim S.]

There was also a huge earthquake today.

 

[Keith Brannen]

Not getting any signal here currently on the Cuban mux, all other transponders seem fine.

 

[hd fan]

Thanks everyone for your replies. No , the 6.8 earthquake and its lesser replicas happened so far away in the eastern end of Cuba and it all happened before the earthquake. Cuba uplinks those Hispasat signals from the Earth Station in Jaruco, a few miles south of the Havana capital in the western portion of Cuba. I bet there was an issue with their uplink dish equipment, probably the Ku Transmitter LNB maybe, because at some point this afternoon they may have been trying to fix it. At some point it came back but this time like 2 dB C/N below normal values like an hour earlier. But then suddenly after it was getting dark around 5 to 6 pm it all went out again and it has not come back.

At least now I know there is nothing wrong with my setup so I don't have to worry playing with it. I guess I will have to wait until it all comes back. Hopefully sooner than later. Cheers. JJ

 

[navychop]

Ship them a truckload of electrons to help them out.

Not to get this into Bob’s Pit territory, but I wonder if they can transcend this without major political changes and concessions. Without China setting up a base there.

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[hd fan]

At 10 pm ET it was already working and apparently, they finally fixed it for good because there was a big rain storm tonight in Toronto and the signal barely blinked for just a few seconds. I can finally continue to enjoy the Premier12 baseball Tournament on Tele Rebelde then !. Thanks everyone for their input. Cheers.

 

[Jim S.]

"Something's always wrong at Radio Havana Cuba" --Glenn Hauser's World Of Radio

 

[N5XZS]

I get his DXing news from him via E-mail all the time!