I solved my problem, and now I get Hipasat 30w!

[iafirebuff]

Well, I was bound and determined to get this motor problem taken care of. I have a new motor enroute from Sadoun ($1 auctions - bid before I had this problem), and it hit about 50 today, so I figure I want to give it a try again. So, hauled all the gear out, remounted the dish, tweaked everything, signals on my tss looked great. Punched in G10, and 11720 was coming in at 60-66%. Went over to 43w, and it is booming in at 53-60%. It was in the 40's. SO, I thought, let's se if we can get 30w. YEP! I got Hipasat at 33-40% on the high tp's, and 33% on the low! Hipasat is a cool bird! Looks like the dish is pointing at the ground, and I am not sure when the leaves come out on the neighbors tree if I will still be able to get it, but I got it! So, to sum it up,I realign/tweaked the motor/dish for the 3rd or 4th time, got everything back and got it back stronger, and I gained 30w!

 

[starman345]

Hey that's great you got it fixed. Hispasat is a neat bird, don't know if you can reach Telstar 12 or not (15 degrees) it also has some real powerful transponders, Al-Alam has beautiful pictures. Reading your thread about your problem has given me spring tune up fever, ordered a few lnbf's today, hope to tweak a few more db out of the arc

 

[iafirebuff]

I was only able to move my motor via disqec 1.2 a short way past 30w. So I am pretty much at my limit. I still have a spare Primestar to play with, but I am not sure I have a good LOS for anything past 30w. Might have to fiddle this summer

 

[jayelem]

Congratulations Iafirebuff ............
I'm really glad that you're hitting 30.0 West
Now you can watch FIDEL and all the goodies they show in the PM.

As to the neighbors tree , I hope it doesn't cause Loss of Line Of Sight come Spring and Summer , I have a similar situation with 129.0 West , I lose signal when the leaves come out on the neighbors Maple tree ( I dislike the tree because every year I'm on a ladder cleaning the muck of seeds in the gutter).

 

[iafirebuff]

Thanks! It is hard to tell if the tree will interfere or not. It is kinda hard to tell the angle as by looking at the dish, I would think a person is crazy if they told me they can receive something with a dish pointed at the ground But, I only watched it a bit last night and all I can say is WOO HOO!

 

[Mr Tony]

congrats!

Yeah the dish does look like its facing the ground So can you get the Superland TP (12175 TP)? Thats the one I cant get stable enough so I wonder if its the footprint or just aiming?

 

[iafirebuff]

The tp 12175 - the one with TV Marti, is the stongest one I get on 30w. It comes in at 33-40% on my Fortec. As you know, lower than 33% gets touchy. Most of the TP's on 30w I get 26-33%. THe signal meter jumps fast between 26-33%, so as long as the weaher is good, I can get them. But to answer your question, yes I get 12175 nice and strong (for 30w at least).

 

[iafirebuff]

Speaking of 30w, has anyone else noticed how good the video quality is on this satellite? I think the crispness and color is almost the best of any of the satellites up there. I really like this bird!

 

[Mr Tony]

The tp 12175 - the one with TV Marti, is the stongest one I get on 30w. It comes in at 33-40% on my Fortec. As you know, lower than 33% gets touchy. Most of the TP's on 30w I get 26-33%. THe signal meter jumps fast between 26-33%, so as long as the weaher is good, I can get them. But to answer your question, yes I get 12175 nice and strong (for 30w at least).

TV Marti is on 12172 H...Superland is on 12175 V and that is the one I'm talking about

 

[iafirebuff]

Ah, let me go look

 

[iafirebuff]

It is not in my tp list. what's the symbol rate?

 

[Mr Tony]

4500

http://www.global-cm.net/MPEGlistATL.html

 

[iafirebuff]

Will go check it out!

 

[iafirebuff]

Tony -

I can only get a 20% signal on it. It shows locked, but it is a no go. That is with my 80cm. Prehaps a larger dish could get it.

 

[Mr Tony]

maybe. I'm using a 37x27 and I get it at a 28-30 which barely locks but very pixelated. Mike Kohl shows it as "very weak signal" and he's probably using a bigger dish than we have

 

[jayelem]

Superland and Supershow are very weak , I'm using the Fortec 90cm , I lock it in 66% well enough to watch but it doesn't take much ( Overcast ) to start losing quality.
Other weak signals I recall are Playing TV and Solo Tango.

For a while there were soccer matches in the clear that showed up upon blind scan , they had $ some of the time but ITC , now I have no idea seems they finally encrypted or no matches are being shown.

In the last year I've seen a few new additions to the Hispasat Channel Lineup , RTPA part of the TVE Digital Package MUX and Canal Habana and ACN on The Cuba MUX.

Came and Gone are TV Libre I believe out of Paraguay and a Brazilian Channel that was decent (non-Religious) , another Canal Salta has been erratic ,

TV Marti has a second Audio Channel that plays Radio Marti.

There are also wild feeds for just about anything , Sports , News , Press Conferences , no usual time , I would say in the afternoon is your best shot.

Last week a new channel popped up , it looked promising but dissappeared , scanned in as Encuentro 12180 V (Lyngsat) , Ice .......... I think you had the tp listed (Argentina).

My FTA weekends are shot because of my Job 4-12:30 , so My finds are slim to none since my morning are spoken for ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......... ZZZZZZZZ

To sum it up , Hispasat is a FTA Friendly Satellite with a European Flavor that caters to the Americas , Hispasat site is very informative and ACKNOWLEDGES the FTA'er as its audience , how many other birds can we say this about with exception of IA-5.

 

[iafirebuff]

Boy oh boy I LOVE Hipasat! - OK, I will stop saying that

 

[Mr Tony]

Superland and Supershow are very weak , I'm using the Fortec 90cm , I lock it in 66% well enough to watch but it doesn't take much ( Overcast ) to start losing quality.
Other weak signals I recall are Playing TV and Solo Tango.

OK so its a given the signal is weak and the farther north you go the worse it is

 

[Mr Tony]

got Supershow & Superland at a 66 on the Coolsat...it stutters but seems to hold

 

[iafirebuff]

I rescanned 30w last night and picked up about 10 or more channels than I had before. The dish sure looks funny - it is pointing almost right at my neighbors living room window - which is about 30-40' from my dish