C Band Radio

[Scott Greczkowski]

I am hearing that Radio Stations are being told that the current AMC-8 Satellite is coming to its end of life and radio services such as Westwood, premier, Skyview & ABC will be moving somewhere between 95 and 115 within the next year or so.

For me this is GREAT as I could never get AMC 8 here in Connecticut as it was always too low on the horizon for me.

My question is what will be required to pick up these signals?

I am also told (but haven't seen anything) that Premiere is currently testing one of the ANIK birds.. If true which one?!

 

[KE4EST]

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/amc-8-mux-107-w.360395/

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

I am hearing that Radio Stations are being told that the current AMC-8 Satellite is coming to its end of life and radio services such as Westwood, premier, Skyview & ABC will be moving somewhere between 95 and 115 within the next year or so.

For me this is GREAT as I could never get AMC 8 here in Connecticut as it was always too low on the horizon for me.

My question is what will be required to pick up these signals?

I am also told (but haven't seen anything) that Premiere is currently testing one of the ANIK birds.. If true which one?!

Wow! Sweet!! If it's anywhere in that neighborhood soon, I definitely want to try to blind scan any of them with my C-Band dish to see what I can get! :-D Motivates me to get my alignment issues sorted out.

 

[Titanium]

Have scanned in about 375 audio channels on 107w. Quite a few more channels to dual illuminate and move from 139w. Would be nice if the audio services all land on 107.3w. It has been so convenient having 1800+ radio services on the same satellite for the past 15+ years.

 

[Titanium]

This is what VLC Program Select Dropdown looks like on a Radio Service mux. LOL!!!! OVERLOAD!!!

 

[N6BY]

This is what VLC Program Select Dropdown looks like on a Radio Service mux. LOL!!!! OVERLOAD!!!
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Is there an easy way to tell which ones are currently broadcasting (other than trial and error)? Last time I looked at the ones on 139W, most were silent.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

They are silent except when they are broadcasting a syndicated show. For example the Premiere Networks Rush Limbaugh channel only has audio from noon to three pm eastern time. So when there is audio on them varies.

 

[Titanium]

Most part time radio muxes use statistical multiplexing. If using TSreader, sort the PIDs by throughput rate. The APIDs with higher data rates have active audio.

I haven't confirmed this on the new 107.3w muxes, but will look Monday and report.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I went out today and realigned my dish and can now track the arc again. Scanned in 107 and got over 250 radio channels. Now to figure out what that all those channels are.

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

I went out today and realigned my dish and can now track the arc again. Scanned in 107 and got over 250 radio channels. Now to figure out what that all those channels are.

I hope I can do the same thing with my 1.2M C-Band Dish.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Went through a few of them, and there are (or were) tons of baseball games.

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

Is it ok to ask what the TP is for the audio stations your getting? Or is blind scan the best way to get it?

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

Ok, well nevermind then. :-/ I did a blind scan and got 193 audio channels on my 1.2M dish with a pretty decent signal quality.

 

[TRG]

Are these radio channels still up on 107?

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[richyrich]

spot beam in mentality; they are only vlc; or does it work on kodi? As the Alaska part was low power; and the satellite is put onto 107; they are scanning encrypted; but the audio is now sent National on the CONUS for Alaska in strength?

See, originally; on AMC 8; the beam was very regional; as it was a beamed "if Alaska" then the Broadcaster's could still use the 2 degree spot fir Alaska beamin'. Since Hughes; and the ku patern's have gone ku; the Alaska beam became their "spot" on and with the Pacific Multi-Continental beam it now broadcast's on still today. I would hate to say; competition is steep; but the Canada Ku is kinda spotty too; as ku; but not in C Band. I have loved the many CTV stuffers here recently; and dish size is smaller on new patterns; but the old stuffin' is still here. My 8' in eastern OR does not have ARCS anymore however; and i wondered why untill i saw they went to a encrypted solutional (cable). Free TV no more; there are so many to watch i do not miss them yet (but the customers on az/el do) Now into Broadcast TV signaling the beam is certainly Asian and Australian is who is missing; if I lived in Alaska; it would be a different story; as free tv via Cities is available (as is some forms of cable); but without a ku (small dish) subscriber box; and C Band scheme's have the real old Conus beam still flyin' there no more (even though they serve a spot beam minded. Am i to say they do not need the repetitive free tv; but they will no longer have the regionals (except in Alaska and NW Canada as they always have They really are still there? The repeat is just the provider; they now have an easy dbackup system on the 107 to send their stations throughout the normal NA beam?