Thread: Sky Mexico?

I have a customer that asked me a few questions that I could not answer at the time. Need some professional advice so I may give her a correct answer.

She resides in the 61244 zip code Moline, Illinois. She just moved here from Los Angeles and wants to know if she can get Sky Mexico?. I checked Lyngsat and it looks like a subscription service.

Sky Mexico is located on Intelsat 9 at 58.0°W.

Q1. Can we even see 58.0°W at 61244 Zip?
Q2. Could she set up a subscription with them living in the USA?
Q3. What type of dish/lnb would this require?

EDIT: I answered one of my questions.
Elevation: 31.7°
Azimuth (true): 136.1°
Azimuth (magn.): 137.0°
LNB Skew [?]: -31.3°

My question is, Can we even see 58.0°W at 61244 Zip?

yes and no

yes you can see 58W from Illinois. West coast can see it too. The issue is those channels are on a Mexico beam footprint....using Dish/Direct lingo, they're on a spotbeam to Mexico. If you were in a southern US state the footprint would work but not that far north (according to the maps)

Could she set up a subscription with them living in the USA?

I assume you would need a Mexico address but point one kinda takes care of that issue

Thanks Ice!
I guess she is out of luck then....
Would like to recommend an alternative before I give her the bad news.... Can anyone recommend any other sats that have the most non religious spanish channels? Haven't seen too many on 97W.....

PS: I wanted to sign her up with Dish or Direct but her credit score was too low and she has an outstanding bill with Dish........

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

Thanks Ice!
I guess she is out of luck then....
Would like to recommend an alternative before I give her the bad news.... Can anyone recommend any other sats that have the most non religious spanish channels? Haven't seen too many on 97W.....

PS: I wanted to sign her up with Dish or Direct but her credit score was too low and she has an outstanding bill with Dish........

DirectDishNet,

How about Hispasat @ 30.0W? There are a LOT of channels on these two birds (1C and 1D - Ku band) and they come in really strong for me in Nebraska.

Despite the low elevation angle, I detect signals in the 90%+ range for quality on many and there are many FTA ch's available. Since she is further east (in IL), she might have even better reception.

For total number of FTA channels, Hispasat has to be ranked in second place next to 97.0W. Check it out and see if there are any channels that she would like there.

RADAR

Originally Posted by AcWxRadar

DirectDishNet,

How about Hispasat @ 30.0W? There are a LOT of channels on these two birds (1C and 1D - Ku band) and they come in really strong for me in Nebraska.

Despite the low elevation angle, I detect signals in the 90%+ range for quality on many and there are many FTA ch's available. Since she is further east (in IL), she might have even better reception.

For total number of FTA channels, Hispasat has to be ranked in second place next to 97.0W. Check it out and see if there are any channels that she would like there.

RADAR

Thank you Radar!....
I'll give it a try but the elevation is only at 13.1°....Might be a little hard.

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

Thanks Ice!
I guess she is out of luck then....
Would like to recommend an alternative before I give her the bad news.... Can anyone recommend any other sats that have the most non religious spanish channels? Haven't seen too many on 97W.....

PS: I wanted to sign her up with Dish or Direct but her credit score was too low and she has an outstanding bill with Dish........

Ask your client what particular channel she wants to see.. if she wants sky mexico she might be after the Televisa and Azteca channels.. I'm pretty sure.

Originally Posted by pro96

Ask your client what particular channel she wants to see.. if she wants sky mexico she might be after the Televisa and Azteca channels.. I'm pretty sure.

She might be but as Iceberg mentioned, Sky Mexico is spot beamed and Illinois is out of the footprint.

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

Thank you Radar!....
I'll give it a try but the elevation is only at 13.1°....Might be a little hard.

DirectDishNet,

I don't foresee any problems with the elevation. If I can pull it in here near Omaha, NE, surely she can pick it up anywhere in IL with reasonable quality levels. I understand that it may still be low, but she is that much further east than I and these two sats are very strong in signal, so she should be fine, well above any threshold for any receiver.

I watch a few channels from this satellite, although many are in Spanish and not my language. The CubaVision Channel often airs English movie channels with Spanish subtitles (and although that seems odd to me) I like to watch them. Some really good movies from time to time.

I wish you good luck here, but I think you and she are going to find this (these two) sats to be a good choice.

30.0W is out of range for my USALS motor control from my longitude position, so I have to switch to DiSEqC 1.2 positioning. I don't think that will be a problem for her location.

RADAR

Originally Posted by DirectDishNet

She might be but as Iceberg mentioned, Sky Mexico is spot beamed and Illinois is out of the footprint.

Yeah but FTA has Azteca and Televisa channels available, to go that alternative route.

AZTECA 7,13,40 @ 93w Ku

Televisa Tijuana @ 116.8w Ku


Also some more Televisa channels on Cband at 43w