Thread: Post your 129W Spotbeam Signal Readings

Receiver type: 211k
Dish: Dish1000.2
Area: 30022
Date/Time: 3:30 PM 2/27
Weather: Light rain

01: 0%
02: 32% (Spotbeam)
03: 37% (Name not acquired)
04: 39% (Spotbeam, I think this is where Atlanta locals are?)
05: 36%
06: 27% (Spotbeam)
07: 39% (Spotbeam)
08: 52% (Spotbeam)
09: 0%
10: 0%
11: 0%
12: 0%
13: 31% (Name not acquired)
14: 0%
15: 32% (Name not acquired)
16: 36% (Name not acquired)
17: 39%
18: 38%
19: 34%
20: 40%
21: 52%
22: 41%
23: 41%
24: 41%
25: 39%
26: 40%
27: 40%
28: 41%
29: 39%
30: 40%
31: 37%
32: 52%

Interesting - those circles on the map are pretty accurate.

I am just outside the outer (yellow) circle for a spotbeam, and my signal strength - with a 30-inch dish (legacy of the E*5 era) - is 16 with a yellow bar.

So, people with normal size dishes outside the outer (yellow) circle are not going to get a signal, and in between the two circles is marginal.

Thumbs up to the guys who do the circles.

Originally Posted by kstuart

Interesting - those circles on the map are pretty accurate.

I am just outside the outer (yellow) circle for a spotbeam, and my signal strength - with a 30-inch dish (legacy of the E*5 era) - is 16 with a yellow bar.

So, people with normal size dishes outside the outer (yellow) circle are not going to get a signal, and in between the two circles is marginal.

Thumbs up to the guys who do the circles.

nelson61 provided that data. I just spent the time of only selecting those two signal strength circles, coloring them green and yellow, then saving each jpg as the correct name.

Receiver type: 622
Dish: Dish 1000
Area: 85243 Queen Creek AZ, 30 miles S.E. of Phoenix
Date/Time: 03/12/2009 1:45pm
Weather: Sunny with clouds

01: 30 Locked- Name not Acquired
02: 0
03: 30 Spotbeam
04: 0
05: 39 Locked- Echostar 129W (Did not say Spotbeam)
06: 0
07: 0
08: 0
09: 0
10: 10 Spotbeam
11: 0
12: 0
13: 0
14: 0
15: 0
16: 45 Locked- Name not Acquired
17: 48
21: 59
22: 50

Today is the first day I noticed the spotbeam on transponder 3. Apparently this is the Tucson spotbeam which is weaker than I would have expected being only 70 miles north of Tucson.

Receiver type: Vip211
Dish: Wavefrontier Toroidal T90 (119W), 24” (129W), 24” (110W), 18” (148W)
Area: Temecula, CA 92592

Date/Time: 03/12/09 7:40pm
Weather: Clear sky

01: NL-NNA (Not Locked-Name Not Acquired)
02: NL-NNA
03: NL-NNA
04: 58%
05: 38%
06: 50%
07: NL-NNA
08: NL-NNA
09: 56%
10: NL-NNA
11: 60%
12: 32%
13: NL-NNA
14: NL-NNA
15: NL-NNA
16: NL-NNA
21: 68%
22: 39%

Receiver type: Vip211
Dish: Dish 300
Area: 62704
Date/Time: around 10:30pm 3/12/09 (Clear)

01: 0% (not locked)
02: 0% (not locked)
03: 0% (not locked)
04: 0% (not locked)
05: 0% (not locked)
06: 0% (not locked)
07: 51% (Spotbeam)
08: 0% (not locked)
09: 0% (not locked)
10: 43% (Spotbeam)
11: 28% (Spotbeam)
12: 0% (not locked)
13: 0% (not locked)
14: 0% (not locked)
15: 0% (not locked)
16: 0% (not locked)
21: 71% (transponder)
22: 61% (transponder)

Receiver type: 722
Dish: 1000.2
Area: 30117 Carrollton, GA
Date/Time: around 12:00am 2/12/09

01: 6%(locked name not acquired)
02: 46% (spotbeam)
03: 57% (locked transponder) 7%(spotbeam)
04:48% (spotbeam)
05:56% (locked)
06:41% (spotbeam)
07:45% (spotbeam)
08:48% (spotbeam)
09:0%
10:0%
11:0%
12:0%
13:0%
14:0%
15:41% (spotbeam)
16:52% (locked-name not acquired)
21:77% (locked)
22:58% (locked)

Date 2/26/2009
Receiver type ViP211
Clear skies

01: 0%
02: 60%
03: 48% (Locked - Name not acquired)
04: 58%
05: 25%
06: 61%
07: 75%
08: 53%
09: 0%
10: 0%
11: 75% (Locked - Name not acquired)
12: 59% (Locked - Name not acquired)
13: 73%
14: 57%
15: 57%
16: 52%
17: 80%
18: 69%
19: 78%
20: 78%
21: 94%
22: 80%
23: 72%
24: 76%
25: 71%
26: 75%
27: 75%
28: 80%
29: 78%
30: 77%
31: 78%
32: 103%

Wapakoneta, Ohio
1000.2
Vip722

1=52 (spotbeam)
2=35 (spotbeam)
3=52 (spotbeam)
4=37 (spotbeam)
5=52
6=49
7=48
8=42 (spotbeam)
9=0
10=0
11=0
12=0
13=0
14=0
15=0
16=32 (spotbeam)
17=58
18=54
19=59
20=57
21=73
22=58
23=58
24=58
25=57
26=58
27=58
28=60
29=60
30=57
31=59
32=59