Uplink Activity Wednesday, October 26th 2005

[goaliebob99]

Good Afternoon guys and gals here is your Satelliteguys Uplink report for today OLN is offically GONE!!!!!!!! Still No new activity at 61.5!


Adds...

9918 (EPSK1) Added to Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.472 GHz Tp 18
9919 (ESPK 2) Added to Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.355 GHz TP 10 (missed this one)
454 (SPORT) Added to Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.472 GHz Tp 18
145 (ESPNA) Added to Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.472 GHz Tp 18
453 (ALT8) Added to Position: 110.0W Echostar 6 & 8 Frequency: 12.559 GHz Tp 24

Removes....

877 (FXALT) Removed From Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.355 GHz Tp 10
136 (FXALT) Removed From Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.355 GHz Tp 10
145 (ESPNA) Removed From Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.399 GHz Tp 13
454 (SPORT) Removed From Position: 119.0W Echostar 7 Frequency: 12.399 GHz Tp 13
151 (OLN) Removed From Position 110.0W Echostar 6 & 8 Frequency: 12.224 GHz Tp 1

 

[Juan]

9918 epsk1 looks like a new pi channel??

 

[goaliebob99]

No idea other than its playing ppv sports on it.. according to the epg guide data..

 

[SummitAdvantageRetailer]

Wow, Ch. 151 OLN is GONE from the EPG? That's not good... Usually when it's removed from the EPG, it's gone for a good while.

 

[pdxsam]

Wow, Ch. 151 OLN is GONE from the EPG? That's not good... Usually when it's removed from the EPG, it's gone for a good while.

That was my first thought, they're really playing hardball When the Viacomm stuff happpened I believe they just hid the channels didn't stop uplinking them... don't remember for sure though.


Sam

 

[korsjs]

thanks bob. keep up the good work.

 

[Mr Tony]

9918 epsk1 looks like a new pi channel??

probably not...PI's are in 9400 series

probably some data channel or Dish "only sees it" channel

 

[Mr Tony]

Bob
I like the new setup...but one suggestion

Could you add "change transponders" for things like above ESPNA...it didnt really leave, just moved

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

9918 epsk1 looks like a new pi channel??

No I don't think thats is.

Eight
P
S
K
?

Just a thought.

 

[goaliebob99]

Yea I know scott thats what i was thinking but its on a qpsk tp.. Iceberg I will give it a shot next week... Im slowly chaging it for the better good of satguys Dish might be testing this an 8psk qpsk mixed tp??? is that possable to have one tp having two diffrent encoding methods??? if so that could be news... with the mixture of hd in the 8psk format... and normal chnls in qpsk..

 

[Minsk1]

Decrypted!

 

[BFG]

is that possable to have one tp having two diffrent encoding methods

I'm pretty possiive the answer is no. The transmission is applied to the whole transponders

 

[Mr Tony]

encoding techniques-no
scrambling techniques-yes (on IA5 for FTA there are 4 or more different scrambling techniques on one TP)

 

[goaliebob99]

so is 8psk and qpsk encoding or encrypiton????

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Its a transmission scheme.

 

[goaliebob99]

ok laymans terms.. From what im getting is that sence its a trasmission scheme it cant be done... Or am i wrong....

 

[HokieEngineer]

No, it can't be done. PSK = Phase Shift Keying. Q = Quad, or 4. Thus there are four different phases that make up a qpsk modulated signal. Each phase can carry 2 bits of data. 00, 01, 10, 11.

8psk means there are 8 different phases that make up the signal. Each phase carries 3 bits of data. 000, 001, etc. Thus, for the same amount of bandwidth (Hz) you are transmiting 33% more data. Your baud rate stays the same (you might hear symbol rate), however the data rate is increased.. data rate = symbol/s * number of bits per symbol.

The modulation applies to the entire channel, so no, you cant mix the two.

On edit, I'm not sure if I defined what "phase" is. When you have an analog signal, ie f(t) = A sin (tf + p) , where A is the amplitude, t is time, f is the carrier frequency, and p is the phase.

 

[Juan]

Whats Mpeg 2 Then?

 

[goaliebob99]

mpeg 2 is the compression method used... that takes that data wether its 8psk or qpsk and compresses it into a smaller size.. sorta like a zipfile..

 

[mdonnelly]

Whats Mpeg 2 Then?

Compression algorithm. The data bits go thru the MPEG-2 decoder, then come out as video understandable by your TV.