SES-3 finally coming to 103W?

[Jim S.]

What other reports would those be?

The only thing I've seen is from a guy who claims to work for SES, and he says that the new bird WON'T have the unconventional skew.

 

[primestar31]

What other reports would those be?

The only thing I've seen is from a guy who claims to work for SES, and he says that the new bird WON'T have the unconventional skew.

They'd have to re-aim ALL the station/network dishes pointed at it now. So, perhaps they'll leave the odd skew, so nobody (except us) has to change their dishes.

 

[Andrew K]

Aren't all the TPs skewed 20-25 degrees on that satellite? I heard that sometimes people are getting the Huntington Beach channels on both H and V. The NBC channels are just much weaker, so on my 76 cm dish, the skew means I can't lock a signal. So if all the TPs are oddly skewed, wouldn't it depend on more than what NBC wants?

 

[primestar31]

Aren't all the TPs skewed 20-25 degrees on that satellite? I heard that sometimes people are getting the Huntington Beach channels on both H and V. The NBC channels are just much weaker, so on my 76 cm dish, the skew means I can't lock a signal. So if all the TPs are oddly skewed, wouldn't it depend on more than what NBC wants?

ONLY the NBC feeds have the odd skew! Everything else on that sat is at the normal skew for that orbital slot.

 

[Jim S.]

That's wrong, unless they somehow changed it. I used to get some of the other transponders on both polarities fairly often. I haven't lately, but I think it's just the tracking being off a little.

 

[skysurfer]

I guess that those reverse thrusters worked very well!

did take about 3 days to nicely go from drift to geostationary (as I look at the STRATCOM archives) - started around the 22nd and close to geostationary on the 25th so it looks like gradual maneuvers were performed to slow the drift and put it at 103W.

 

[vc2]

I guess that those reverse thrusters worked very well!



I don't expect that to change.

Altitude wise, It's still moving.

 

[Mr Tony]

That's wrong, unless they somehow changed it. I used to get some of the other transponders on both polarities fairly often. I haven't lately, but I think it's just the tracking being off a little.

With my wrongly skewed LNB I usually get the V polarity stuff on both V & H (horizontal stuff is really low signal )

 

[Hindu55]

With my wrongly skewed LNB I usually get the V polarity stuff on both V & H (horizontal stuff is really low signal )

Same here.