Echostar 1 Drifting East

[Fitzie]

Renewed thanks to nelson61 and also photoman76 for tracking and updates.

Best regards,
Fitzie

 

[simonhwsn]

Echo8 will remain at 77?

Yes, it's supposed to

any channels yet?

 

[photoman76]

Yes, it's supposed to

any channels yet?

Still no channels.

 

[Miner]

Still no channels.

Any Channels yet? With Nimiq 5 going up and destined for a estimated mid Oct activation at 72.7, is E* waiting for both to be ready before using them?

Miner

 

[photoman76]

Still no channels yet. Don't know what the hold up is. It's been there a long time with no activity.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I am getting the following signal strengths on the 77 sat with my 1000.4 sat dish:

1) 51
4) 47
5) 49
8) 47
9) 50
12) 48
13) 43
16) 48
17) 52
20) 50
21) 52
24) 52
25) 50
28) 50
29) 54
32) 50

 

[Miner]

Is (are) that an improvement from previous readings indicating E-1 is active? I know you were having some signal issues from 77 recently. Or is it E* boosting output on the other bird knowing E-1 is ready to go?

Miner

 

[simonhwsn]

Any Channels yet? With Nimiq 5 going up and destined for a estimated mid Oct activation at 72.7, is E* waiting for both to be ready before using them?

Miner

That makes no sense to me. Remember, E1 is intended for provide service to Uniteded States and Mexico as well, only E1 will be providing service in Mexico, why they would make us to wait too?

I am getting the following signal strengths on the 77 sat with my 1000.4 sat dish:

1) 51
4) 47
5) 49
8) 47
9) 50
12) 48
13) 43
16) 48
17) 52
20) 50
21) 52
24) 52
24) 50
28) 50
29) 54
32) 50

16 TPs and 24th twice? can you tell wich of these TPs belong to E1 and wich to E8? Here's the signal strengths from Mexico's beam

3) 70
7) 71
11) 67
15) 68
19) 64
23) 69
27) 64
31) 63

3, 7, 11, 15, 19 and 23 belong to E4, 27 and 31 belong to E1, both empty.

I'm having a hard time trying to write in english right sorry

 

[MikeD-C05]

Sorry should of been 25) 50 . I fixed it in the above post.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Is (are) that an improvement from previous readings indicating E-1 is active? I know you were having some signal issues from 77 recently. Or is it E* boosting output on the other bird knowing E-1 is ready to go?

Miner

I used to have problems with the 77 sat the last time I had eastern arc dish up ,so I had switched back to western arc for a while. I now have NO problems with the 77 sat on my system information screen when I run it. All are green and good, so I think that this is an improvement . Now when they get the new sat up and running by next month, I should have no problems with eastern arc dish because I will have strong sat readings on the two main sats:72.7 and 77. I might have to re-aim the dish a bit to get stronger signals on 61.5 sat. Since I re-aimed the eastern arc dish I kind of lost some strength on my 61.5 sat. Haven't lost any shows but the strength is definitely lower than the 129 side sat I plugged in to my eastern arc dish.

61.5 sat dish readings

1) 0
2) 57
3) 59
4) 0
5) 66 sp beam
6) 0
7) 0
8) 50
9) 55
10) 57
11) 53 sp beam
12) 0
13) 45 sp beam
14) 67
15) 0
16) 38
17) 37 lowest signal
18) 55
19) 40
20) 40
21) 53
22) 46
23) 0
24) 46
25) 48
26) 0
27) 47
28) 41
29) 57
30) 46
31) 46
32) 40

Here is what I am getting on the 72.7 sat : it is an improvement over what I had before. I re-aimed it to get better strength.

1) 44
3) 45
5) 39 lowest strength
7) 45
9) 42
11) 45
13) 44
15) 45
17) 43
19) 46
21) 42
23) 46
25) 45
27) 46
29) 46
31) 48

 

[simonhwsn]

A month and nothing.