Intelsat 9 at 58.0°W

[ikki]

According to Lyngsat, this bird can see into both the EU and the states.

Intelsat 9 at 58.0°W - LyngSat Maps

Is that true in the real world, and has any one in the states been able to receive any EU programming?

 

[Lak7]

If it on the European Beam, doe not mean it is also on the Americas / ConUS beam.
What channel were you looking at?

 

[hd fan]

yes it is true , for instance both Hispasat's 1C and 1D (a satellite from Spain at 30W) , have the capability to serve both continents. Some companies use them to bounce signals from 1 continent to the other. For instance TVE uses a mux to send several TV stations from Spain to US to be distributed via cable or DTH services later. But as Lak7 was pointing out see lyngsat.com to verify a particular TV stations which beam is using , either america or europe.

 

[ikki]

11477 H

British Telecom

 

[Lak7]

Do you have a Universal Ku LNB?

 

[ikki]

Didnt even think about that. I currently have a Invacom Quad QPH-031 which wont work, sooooooo maybe I need this one QUAD Universal KU LNBF
FORTEC STAR FSKU-4v from Sadoun.

 

[Lak7]

I'd only get q Quad if you need one. Otherwise a Dual would be fine, and less heavy.

 

[ikki]

Yes good point, as on my Invacom I am only using 1 of the 4, although if the frequency of the transponder is 11477 why would I need a universal LNBF?

 

[Mr Tony]

that is 99% color bars...very rarely have I ever seen anything on it

 

[walrus1957]

I am using a 76cm dish and a BSC621-2 Universal KU LNB aimed at 58W PAS 9. I am picking up 5 TV channels from that bird all on transponder 11477H. Attached is a screen shot from Channel Master of my saved channel list for those channels. My location is 40 miles west of Omaha NE.

Click on the thumnail then click enlarge when file opens, you should be able to make out all the channel information.

 

[ikki]

Walrus,

I hate to be a pain. Did any thing on there look British as far as programming goes?


Aastha is from India.


Other transponders the brits might use, on that sat are as follows,

11509 H

11521 H

11532 H Unknown

11542 H

11557 H

11570 H

11582 H

11600 H

11612 H Unknown

 

[walrus1957]

ikki-

Its been several months since I viewed any programming from that sat so I really do not remember what the programming looked like. I am the process of tearing the dish setup down to replace with a 1.2 meter dish and changing out the BSC621-2 with the GeoSatpro dual output C-Band lnb. Still waiting for Brian to get the order in.

If I had the new dish hooked to the motor I would slap the BSC621 on and test. I was waiting for the new LNB, sounds like that will be a few more weeks.