Near (NW of) Omaha, Nebraska I can pick up one TP from 63.0°W (Telstar 14 / Estrela Du Sol):
11966 MHz Vertical
SR 11280 KS/s
FEC 3/4
AZBox signal quality 54%
I log in ten FTA channels
One channel is ETV World (which seems quite similar to PBS World on AMC 21 @ 125.0°W), but it is not a mirror channel. The other nine channels all appear to be feeds, but sometimes carry the CREATE channel and PBS Kids, etc.
63.0°W is another nice stop between AMC 9 @ 83.0°W and Hispasat @ 30.0°W (in addition to AMC 5 @ 79.0°W, Horizons 2 @ 74.0°W and AMC 6 @ 72.0°W). I am trying to work on other sats in between 83 and 30, but they are being ellusive.
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Of course, this signal isn't listed in Lyngsat, so I've always been a bit nervous about discussing it, but it's been mentioned here several times, so I guess the damage has been done. I've been watching the SCETV things on T14 since the sat went up back around 2004. Initially, they were DCII, and had two transponders that used odd frequencies that the 4DTV user channels didn't tune to. I've never heard of any 4DTV users who were able to tune them, and yet apparently people were very sensitive about letting the info about it's existance going public. Being a public service, it was hard to understand the secrecy, as I can't imagine them encrypting, but I went along with the idea.
Back then, those two muxes had a whole bunch of channels, most showed up as slates, and there seemed to be many duplicates. I'm not sure how many actual individual channels they had, because I didn't have a way to tune them with TSREADER then.
But over the years, sometimes they had a full time PBS channel, other times they had it on only certain times of day, other times they didn't have any PBS channel, only the feeds to their schools. There was one feature that has always been there which is unique on KU as far as I can tell, but I won't mention that here.
I'm surprised to see you post that only the World is full time. Every time I've tuned in recently there was always a World, Create and a regular PBS channel (which has kids stuff on during the day, just like regular PBS. I generally only tune it in during the day though, so maybe they turn those things off at night???
Right now they have a mirror of the PBS-east feed on one channel, a mirror of CREATE on another channel. A while ago, they had World on channel 10, but right now, they're showing something called ETV Classic on that channel. Never noticed that before, so I guess they're still changing things.
Also right now for NASA fans, they seem to have a NASA-TV channel on one of the school feed channels, but they may turn that off after school lets out. I've seen them turn down the power on the whole transponder in the late afternoon. Ie I did a spectrum scan while it was full power, and it was as strong as the adjoining transponders, then click, and I lost it. Did a spectrum scan, and it was still there, but half power, while the adjoining transponders were still the same. So I figured that since this was mainly a service to feed video to schools, that they must just turn down the power when school isn't in session sometimes.
There are LOTS of other transponders on this sat, however. The other SCETV transponder is too weak for me to pick up most of the time, but there are other transponders that seem to be pretty strong, but a DVB blind scan doesn't pick them up, so I figure that they must be DVB-S2 or some other mode (DCII or DSS???). Haven't bothered trying to get any of them, figureing that eventually someone with better equipment will eventually find them.
EDIT: As soon as I hit send, I notice that they've taken off the NASA-TV feed, and replaced that with another program about AF bombers, and now they have a version of WORLD back on that does not mirror the AMC21 World.
So I guess they really are changing programming on the fly.
