DIRECTV: CONUS and LIL Transponder Maps

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DIRECTV CONUS Transponder/Channel Maps - Data 9/13/08

Please be forgiving. This is a work in progress with a massive amount of data.
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The attachments to this post are for CONUS Transponders only.

The next post will provide the attachments for Local-Into-Local (LIL) transponders.


Attached are two PDF documents covering DIRECTV Satellites at the 99, 101, 103 and West positions:

1. A listing by Satellite and Transponder, showing assigned Channels
2. A listing by Channel, showing the source Satellite and Transponder

A Transponder and Network Number reference sheet will be provided in post #3. That sheet applies to both the CONUS and LIL listings.

All documents are fully unprotected so you may copy and use the data as you wish.

The satellites at the 72, 95, 110 and 119 slots are not included at this time.

Please remember this is data from 9/13/08: there have been multiple changes in these last ten days.

 

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DIRECTV LIL Transponder/Channel Maps - Data 9/13/08

DIRECTV LIL Transponder/Channel Maps - Data 9/13/08

Please be forgiving. This is a work in progress with a massive amount of data.
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The attachments to this post are for LIL (Local-Into-Local) Transponders only.

The previous post provides the attachments for CONUS (CONtinental US) transponders.


Attached are two PDF documents covering DIRECTV Satellites at the 99, 101, 103 and West positions:

1. A listing by Satellite and Transponder, showing assigned Channels
2. A listing by Channel, showing the source Satellite and Transponder

IMPORTANT:
The satellite entry for these LIL channels is shown as <lookup> because while the Network Number and TPN are displayed for these channels, you will need to do an online lookup (at lyngsat.com, for instance) to determine which satellite carries this channel.

There are 219 LIL Networks, (all Networks of number 512 and above) comprising 6,628 line entries. I did not want to delay providing this information until an automated interface is in place to update the network-to-satellite-name relationship.
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A Transponder and Network Number reference sheet will be provided in post #3. That sheet applies to both the CONUS and LIL listings.

All documents are fully unprotected so you may copy and use the data as you wish.

The satellites at the 72, 95, 110 and 119 slots are not included at this time.

Please remember this is data from 9/13/08: there have been multiple changes in these last ten days.

 

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Network Number Decoder

Network Number to Transponder
Attached is the 'decoder' to show the relationships of the Network Number to Satellites and the Satellite Transponders.

 

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CONUS Update: Data of 10/4/08

Data Update
10/5: Updated DIRECTV CONUS (national) listings with data of 10/4/08.

Added a third listing, by channel NAME in addition to listings by TPN and CHANNEL.

 

[Smith P.]

gct, after good discovery at dbs, please replace tpn numbers/meaning for LiL channels: it will be local ch number, but subtract 1 from each value.

 

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Data parsing and conversion

There's a discovery here just pointed out:

When the channel name entry in the table is:

a. the four character channel name Wxxx for the east
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b. the four character channel name Kxxx for the west
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Then the DIRECTV entry in the 'TPN' field is a the
channel number incremented by 1.

The entry "WNBC 4 Net-632 <lookup> 5" is such a placeholder entry. But for your sanity: a search for the channel NY4 (that same WNBC channel, in SD) shows it as channel 4, in Net 632 and on transponder 31.

The rest of the question still begs an answer: how do we map the actual TPN to the signal strength display on your receiver? For the old 110W sat, for example, we have known that actual TPN28 is mapped to virtual TPN8, actual TPN30 to virtual TPN10 and actual TPN32 to virtual TPN12. We have some relationships still waiting to be discovered.