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[monkey13]

Thanks Ruffcast and Ugango. Ruffcast, where did you get your special Ku band LNB holder?. Interesting that Ugango failed to nail BADR with a 1.8m Prime Focus dish in Nairobi, I am wondering if it is worth trying. If you look at the footprint of the BADR Beams, their is a blip down towards Lake Victoria, otherwise the footprint shows only marginal coverage in north of Turkana District, and nothing much in Nairobi. I wonder if this could explain how Ruffcast was able to nab the bird but Ugango could not track it?

Hi rufcast how many channels can you recieve? Here at Kapenguria im able to recieve 110 channels with 90cm and Samson lnb, has anybody recieved irib package on this sat?

 

[drandonzero]

FOOTBALL TODAY
Tuesday 17.09.2013 CET(GMT+5)
UEFA Champions League
20:45 Galatasaray - Real M.

AzTV Azerbaijan
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss Biss key: 12 34 56 00 65 43 21 00
DUHOK
-NSS 57°E -11568 V 2500 -FTA(DVB-S2)
Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00 Irib TV3
-Badr 26°E -11881 H 27500 -FTA/Biss(DVB-S2)
-Intelsat 62°E -11555 V 27500 -FTA/Biss
Biss key: 11 11 11 33 11 11 11 33
Star TV
-Eutelsat 7°E -11617 V 30000 -CW(DigiTurk) Cryptoworks
key01:C0C68655B63304085B5F722DD471FE27
-Turksat 42°E -11054 H 30000 -FTA/Biss
Biss key: 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

20:45 Man Utd - Bayer L.

Idman_Azerbaycan SC -AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
ITV 1
-Astra 28.2°E -10891 H/10906 V/10758 V/10832
H 22000 -FTA
Rah-e-Farda -Turksat 42°E -11988 H 2222 -FTA
RUSTAVI 2
-Turksat 42°E -12596 V 3700 -Biss
Biss Key: DB A5 45 00 FD E3 62 00
STV(Sco)
-Astra 28.2°E -10906 V 22000 -FTA UTV
-Astra 28.2°E -10906 V 22000 -FTA
*ITV1 HD
-Astra 28.2°E -10832 H/10936 V 22000 -FTA
-Intelsat 27.5°W -11495 V 44100 -Biss(DVB-S2)
Biss KEY:80 0B 73 FE 55 B4 85 8E *STV HD
-Astra 28.2°E -10936 V 22000 -FTA
-Intelsat 27.5°W -11495 V 44100 -Biss(DVB-S2)
Biss KEY:80 0B 73 FE 55 B4 85 8E
*UTV HD.
-Intelsat 27.5°W -11495 V 44100 -Biss(DVB-S2) Biss KEY:80 0B 73 FE 55 B4 85 8E

20:45 Copenhagen - Juventus

Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
20:45 Benfica - Anderlecht Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
20:45 Olympiacos - PSG
Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00

20:45 Bayern M. - CSKA M.

2+2
-Astra 4.8°E -11766 H 27500 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 09 02 19 24 63 23 06 8C
HTB(NTV Russia) -Azerspace 46°E -11135 H 27500 -FTA
-ABS-1 75°E -12640 V 22000 -FTA
Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
20:45 Viktoria Pl. - Man City Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
Prima COOL
-Astra 23.5°E° -12070 H 27500 -CW(SkyLink)
Cryptoworks Key00: 000000000000000019E8F524C6C053E4

20:45 Sociedad - Shakhtar D.

Idman_Azerbaycan SC
-AzerSpace 46°E -11169 H 20400 -FTA/Biss
Biss key : 34 53 45 00 34 53 45 00
UEFA U-19 Youth League 17:00 Man Utd - Bayer L.
Eurosport Deu.
-Astra 19.2°E -12226 H 27500 -FTA
Georgia Umaglesi Ligap
16:00 Torpedo K. - Dila Gori
1 TV GEORGIA -Turksat 42°E -12601 V 2960 -FTA/Biss

The channels and the sats you provided, have you been able to track them?

 

[abu i-man]

Personally i have only 2 from the list, 7e and i also have a jsc card so no hussles for me, but i put it out there for enthusiasts to know the very many options they have....

 

[rtuwey]

i beg to differ with you on that, both this lnbs are for prime focus dishes, you affix either of this on an offset dish and you wont get no signal. My hunt for 7e last night made me cut up a eurostar quad and fuji single as illustrated by a fellow ASAS addict and i still didnt manage to lock onto the european beam although there was a remarkable jump in quality on the zimbo frequency (12728 h 30000) of 10% from 71% to 81%. After a blind scan with the 4922 i was suprised to see 4.8e and 5e all pop up with very high signal levels. The hunt would have continued well into the night had it not been for the liverpool game which started at 10pm and i had to cede my rights to the tv to the epl fans in the hse. A forum member told me that i must hit atleast 87% on the zimbo tp for the european beam to pop up, the hunt continues later today as ASAS patients have a never give up attitude which comes with the package. Digiturk here i come.
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I agree with you that both lnb's are for prime focus and the second works better for me. But just a clarification from your setup; do you mean you can modify the prime focus lnb to be used in offset?

 

[ruffcast]

Interesting msondaa.. Thats some real ingenuity there! please keep us posted on the results.

 

[rtuwey]

I'm seeing this on flysat [SIZE=+1]"[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Eutelsat 8 West C[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]@ 7.8° West"[/SIZE] is it a new satellite? Is it receivable?

 

[mah-mah123]

Hi all,

Apart from carrying TV to roof tops and using expensive signal gadgets are their other ways of tracking/tuning signals.

im interested in knowing the techniques/gadgets we all use

 

[Bigphil]

Asas is getting to me.........View attachment 111865
I took my tv outdoors near my dish to add eutelsat 7e lnb together with the existing nilesat 7w/eutelsat8w
though i did not succeed in modification of the setup, i am not giving up

but i learnt something today: the starlife single lnb is outperfoming the stargold fuji lnb
i noted significant improvement in signal levels with the former so much that i left it and removed the stargold

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Hi in my experience the Stargold Fuji is still better. Getting 64% on discovery
6ft dish in Nairobi
See attached

 

[abu i-man]

Hi in my experience the Stargold Fuji is still better. Getting 64% on discovery
6ft dish in Nairobi
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The verdict is out there still...
While we are at it, do some of your signals drop from evening to early morning? On 7e? From 11492 to 11513? The group that has nickelodeon sd, discovery channel, intimacy etc

 

[SAT2]

Will follow it there, let it not joke with us

 

[SAT2]

Ruffcast

which location are you , using 90cm dish and getting cnn,

 

[msondaa]

Will follow it there, let it not joke with us[/QUO
if its irib on 82e forget about it, just swing your dish to 20e.

 

[ugango]

i beg to differ with you on that, both this lnbs are for prime focus dishes, you affix either of this on an offset dish and you wont get no signal.
My hunt for 7e last night made me cut up a eurostar quad and fuji single as illustrated by a fellow ASAS addict and i still didnt manage to lock onto the european beam although there was a remarkable jump in quality on the zimbo frequency (12728 h 30000) of 10% from 71% to 81%. After a blind scan with the 4922 i was suprised to see 4.8e and 5e all pop up with very high signal levels. The hunt would have continued well into the night had it not been for the liverpool game which started at 10pm and i had to cede my rights to the tv to the epl fans in the hse. A forum member told me that i must hit atleast 87% on the zimbo tp for the european beam to pop up, the hunt continues later today as ASAS patients have a never give up attitude which comes with the package. Digiturk here i come.


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MSHOndaa what did you use to join the feed horn to lnb. I need to do one for my 1.8m dish on a star gold lnb

 

[ugango]

Hi rufcast how many channels can you recieve? Here at Kapenguria im able to recieve 110 channels with 90cm and Samson lnb, has anybody recieved irib package on this sat?

monkey13 that is interesting info that you use 90cm at kapenguria! which tp has the highest strength and quality that can be used to easily track the bird. have finished calibrating the lnb arm for my 1.8m offset and want to nab this bird in Nairobi.

 

[msondaa]

MSHOndaa what did you use to join the feed horn to lnb. I need to do one for my 1.8m dish on a star gold lnb

i used epoxy glue,, the one that comes in toothpaste like containers

 

[Northumberland]

Hi Bigphil,

Can I just make sure that I understand your last post correctly. You are able to get Eutelsat 7E Europe beam (Turkish channels) using a 6ft (1.8m) Prime Focus dish and a Stargold Fuji Prime Focus Ku band LNB in Nairobi. Is that right?

Thanks

 

[Northumberland]

I wonder whatever happened to Eutelsat 3D at 3 degrees East, Africa Beam. The Eutelsat website shows an Africa beam footprint with strong signal coverage over East Africa, but Lyngsat does not show any channels for Africa beam, strange that they would set up a satellite able to transmit to East and Central Africa, but not put any content on it for months. Anybody have any news?

 

[freddygaz]

Hi all,

Apart from carrying TV to roof tops and using expensive signal gadgets are their other ways of tracking/tuning signals.

im interested in knowing the techniques/gadgets we all use

Infact tho are the only two methods...earlier back in the analog era we used to listen to the tv while turning the dish!it was like settin an aerial nowdays til u get a clear picture : )

 

[Bigphil]

The verdict is out there still...
While we are at it, do some of your signals drop from evening to early morning? On 7e? From 11492 to 11513? The group that has nickelodeon sd, discovery channel, intimacy etc

Signals have been stable except 11617 which tends to fade at night. It is currently raining now and I'm getting 56% -57% Discovery on 11554 E! ent 11513 is around 57-58% now thought it is normally around 60%. Generally the only freq that is temperamental is 11617.
If it is not raining tomorrow I will get you morning and evening signal strengths

Hi Bigphil,

Can I just make sure that I understand your last post correctly. You are able to get Eutelsat 7E Europe beam (Turkish channels) using a 6ft (1.8m) Prime Focus dish and a Stargold Fuji Prime Focus Ku band LNB in Nairobi. Is that right?

Thanks

Yes that is correct. The trickiest frequency to achieve is 11617 that has History and Nat Geo. The rest are stable. it took alot of patience but is 7E achievable

 

[freddygaz]

I'm seeing this on flysat [SIZE=+1]"[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Eutelsat 8 West C[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]@ 7.8° West"[/SIZE] is it a new satellite? Is it receivable?

That bird was formally located at 13E as Hot bird 13A it was renamed as Eutelsat 8W C when it got into 7W neighberhood...I belive for it 2b competitive it has to have a Mena beam!bt lets wait n see!