Hi all,
In my continuing quest to find 55w and 58w, I found these 16 and 32 aspk transponders in the general vicinity of these two satellites last night. Does anyone know what satellite I was on ? Even though my stb found them, it wouldn’t “ load” them.
I’m attaching a photo of last night’s find.
Just ignore the 58w heading in the photo.
Thanks in advance.
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John
That's a lot of 16 and 32APSK transponders with weird symbol rates. I wonder if they might all be data services. There are other satellites nearby that don't carry TV, like Intelsat 23 at 53W and Intelsat 9 and 902 at 50W.
58W should be easy to find. Here's what I do: use dishpointer.com or their app to figure out the correct direction and make sure your dish is pointing that way. Choose the NHK transponder on 58W at 4160H. It has an FEC of 1/2, which means half of all bits are error correction. It's incredibly resilient and DVB-S. It's the easiest of all the transponders to pick up.
Then hunt around for it. Best to take a receiver and TV out to the dish and you can eye ball when you're pointed in roughly the correct direction, pull and push the dish up and down to see if you're off the arc, then move the dish a few clicks and try the up and down tugging again. You should be able to see the signal meter move when you hit NHK.
If you're in the vicinity and getting these transponders, you're obviously not too far off though. Have you visually checked the dish direction from behind and verified it's pointing where you think it should be?