Echostar 12 - 61.5 Spotbeam Maps

[Jim5506]

The spotbeam maps and other data have me curious.

1) The List shows Abilene and Snyder Texas in TP07SB17, but the associated picture shows SB17 in the Houston area and both Abilene and Snyder are off the frame, hundreds of miles NW of the SB.

2) Additionally I am receiving a spotbeam on TP7 in Lubbock, TX (600 miles from Houston) at signal strength 73. Is it from E3 or another spot off E12?

Here is my reception list for 61.5 transponders 1-17 (SB=Spot Beam; TP=Transponder; NS=no signal; NNA= Locked - Name not acquired)

TP-type-strength
01 - SB - 68
02 - TP - 60
03 - SB - 43
04 - NS
05 - TP - 68 - NNA
06 - TP - 64 - NNA
07 - SB - 74
08 - TP - 64
09 - NS
10 - TP - 59
11 - NS
12 - TP - 78
13 - TP - 43 - NNA
14 - TP - 69
15 - SB - 47
16 - TP - 53
17 - TP 57 - NNA

3) When I lock onto the signal of a transponder like 5, 6, 13 and 17 and it does not acquire a name is that a spurrious signal from somewhere else, what causes that?

 

[nelson61]

The List shows Abilene and Snyder Texas in TP07SB17, but the associated picture shows SB17 in the Houston area and both Abilene and Snyder are off the frame, hundreds of miles NW of the SB.

Additionally I am receiving a spotbeam on TP7 in Lubbock, TX (600 miles from Houston) at signal strength 73. Is it from E3 or another spot off E12?

There is a sticky in the uplink section. Please post your city or zip and the spots numbers your receiver says you receive. We need lots of input from the E12 spots to figure out what Dish did when it took over the Rainbow satellite by correlating current transponders and spotbeam nomenclature to the FCC filing data.

 

[Jim5506]

Done!

Edited my previous post with questions - thanks for the info.