The ranting of an elderly ASAS victim:
Anyone remembers the old days, when we used to watch KenyanMux on Eutelsat 36A? When Intel20 was pas 7/10, and the gurus of ASAS used totalk about dodgy birds in the western skies? The days Astra was Sirius, and thecomplex at 7w was full of all the good goodies from MBC and so on? Wow. Thosewere the days.
But they come in all their glory, and leave.
The last few months have been a nightmare to some of us, andespecially me heheheee?
Darling d**g**t**k went into hiding without warning. BloodyAmos5, who killed that bird? I loved it.
But part of the fun is in the hunting; eyes turning slowlyto the eastern skies. And greater will the ASAS spirit burn yet.
End of rant.
I decided to nudge the Amos5 (17e) dish one degree downtowards Eutelsat 16A at16e from Nairobi with a 90cm dish, a strong 4922, and aninverto black. In the dark, standing on a shaky wooden stand for a ladder, andwithout my specs (I am half blind). No sat finder either. I got only onetransponder, the one with e-tele or something like that. Maximum quality at 30,unstable. Skew at about 90deg.
I then look up the footprint and apparently the sub-Saharan beamonly has a small weak tapered finger of signal walking in from around theKavirondo gulf and turkana and stretches roughly over the equator in a southerneasterly direction totally avoiding the Mandera massacre and also completelymissing the southern tip of the country from Mt Kenya down. Heheheeee
Who is watching 16e? Where are you in Kenya? What?s yourgear?