Any rough ETA of when we will have tp to spotbeam info? Like I getting a whopping signal level off tp 25 of 3 to 5 just curious as to where it is really pointed.
Echostar 16 at 61.5W
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Any rough ETA of when we will have tp to spotbeam info? Like I getting a whopping signal level off tp 25 of 3 to 5 just curious as to where it is really pointed.
I'm getting locks on 11 spotbeam TP's on 61.5:
TP 18 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 72
TP 19 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 64
TP 20 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 79
TP 21 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 71
TP 22 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 42
TP 24 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 43
TP 27 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 36
TP 28 - Locked - Name not Acquired! - 64
TP 29 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 35
TP 30 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 67
TP 32 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 28
18,19,20 21 and 22 take almost a minute to finally lock and display the satellite, but they do finally lock with the satellite name.
TP 18 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 72
TP 19 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 64
TP 20 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 79
TP 21 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 71
TP 22 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 42
TP 24 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 43
TP 27 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 36
TP 28 - Locked - Name not Acquired! - 64
TP 29 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 35
TP 30 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 67
TP 32 - Locked - Echostar 61.5 West - 28
18,19,20 21 and 22 take almost a minute to finally lock and display the satellite, but they do finally lock with the satellite name.
This is w/ my 1m
18- 78
19- 70
20-84
21-80
22-50
23- 1 (I've seen a whopping 4 on it)
24- 59
25- 9
26- 0
27- 52
28- 69 (name not acquired)
29- 45
30- 75
31- 0
32- 36
The 1 & "name not acquired" don't switch to spot. It seems like they all take forever to lock. Much slower than other sats.
18- 78
19- 70
20-84
21-80
22-50
23- 1 (I've seen a whopping 4 on it)
24- 59
25- 9
26- 0
27- 52
28- 69 (name not acquired)
29- 45
30- 75
31- 0
32- 36
The 1 & "name not acquired" don't switch to spot. It seems like they all take forever to lock. Much slower than other sats.
Here's what I got in my corner of the country:
18 - 48 (name not acquired)
19 - 0
20 - 36 (name not acquired)
21 - 0
22 - 36 (spotbeam)
23 - 0
24 - 46 (spotbeam)
25 - 0
26 - 8 (name not acquired) (spotbeam)
27 - 0
28 - 14 (spotbeam)
29 - 0
30 - 36 (name not acquired)
31 - 0
32 - 41 (spotbeam)
Locking took well over a minute for each one, and I waited 3 minutes on the ones that had 0 signal. I then went back to 18 because I couldn't remember if I had a spotbeam the first time, and I couldn't get a signal on 18 even after waiting for more than 3 minutes.
18 - 48 (name not acquired)
19 - 0
20 - 36 (name not acquired)
21 - 0
22 - 36 (spotbeam)
23 - 0
24 - 46 (spotbeam)
25 - 0
26 - 8 (name not acquired) (spotbeam)
27 - 0
28 - 14 (spotbeam)
29 - 0
30 - 36 (name not acquired)
31 - 0
32 - 41 (spotbeam)
Locking took well over a minute for each one, and I waited 3 minutes on the ones that had 0 signal. I then went back to 18 because I couldn't remember if I had a spotbeam the first time, and I couldn't get a signal on 18 even after waiting for more than 3 minutes.
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Don't know where you are but here is the reuse table for TP 25. While you are waiting for the uplink and List update, you can look at the spots on the Satmaps to see which spots in your area have 25.
| SP03 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP06 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP07 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP10 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP12 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP14 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP16 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP17 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP20 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP23 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP25 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
| SP70 | 12573.92 | R | 25 |
No ETA, been gone all weekend. Anyone else is more than welcome to help reverse engineer this stuff though.
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It was mostly meant for me. There are 71 spot beams on E-16 of which we are talking about tp 25. In this one he is talking about these different sets of spotbeams. We have talked via PM since this reply. This link should be Sat Maps sp 71. You can look at all the sp on Sat Maps. http://satmaps.satelliteguys.us/home/echostar-16-61-5w-sp71-san-francisco SP 70 is for your area. http://satmaps.satelliteguys.us/home/echostar-16-61-5w-sp70-puerto-rico
Hmm, don't see an uplink report. Either a problem, delay, or Scott needs to kick the uplink PC again.
They had planned 21st and 23rd but no changes occurred on 21st. Might see it all tonight or might be still tuning up their previous changes.
Or, they might have done it surreptitiously during the night by keeping the same TIDs on E16.
Who would know?
