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Digging through some old files, I found the attached graph that correlates Signal Strngth reported by the DirecTV receiver to SNR. It was produced by an associate around 2015.

I use Genpix Skywalker-1 receivers and TSreader for a lot that I do here, I can't receive the Ka band satellites, but my experience on the Ku Band is that a SNR of at least +6dB is necessary for reliable reception. {EDIT} Make that any reception, and we aren't rrying to receive video, just...

Your other references are terribly out of date. T10 (D10) spot beam transponders were shut down over a decade ago, after some sort of system failure on the satellite. T12 (or D12 as DirecTV has reverted to this year) took over it's spot beam duties. New Orleans Stations are positively on...

The frequency and polarity of the transponders on 103S are different than 103CA and 103CB. You have to be tuned to the 103S transponders to see their signal strengths. DIRECTV uses two bands of frequencies for these transmissions: The KAHi or "A" band and the KALo or "B" Band. 103CA is the...

I notified Gary by email before I posted anything here. The Datadigesters team coordinates our work outside of this forum.

DirecTV has fixed the feed to 119 TPN 32 and the missing SD duplicates for Charleston, WV and Louisville, KY are back on 119.

If you are offshore in the gulf, you may just be outside the beam footprints on some of those transponders. I can't help you with the AIM meter.

Don't expect anything to happen immediately. The FCC will grant the request, so the deadline is 10 months from now.

Sure they could. After D9S is gone, they will have 6 transponders on D16 they can fire up as National Transponders to carry the most problematic DMAs. Those would be the ones with the most commercial and MDU (apartments) with SD only equipment (Big cities). Using all 6 TPNs, they can handle...

That looks workable for customers that are not on the very edge of the published beam footprints.

Thank you for catching that (FCC file SAT-AMD-20230808-00193) . Only a portion of the application was redacted (competitive information). If the extension is not granted, DirecTV will have to eliminate all SD local channels on the spotbeams on D9S@101 By December 17, 2023. The redacted...

Here is the Weekly Analysis For September 20, 2023, and a comparison to September 18, after the Nexstar stations were restored.

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Sep 20 2023 Comparison of Transponder Data for Sep 20 2023 vs Sep 13 2023: No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters. Changes to the use of defined transponders: 1 Transponder cleared of all Streams:: Net 10 TID 18 Beam...

Those P/I channels are not SD duplicates. They are SD only. In my opinion, there will continue to be many mpeg2 SD channels on 101. The whole DirecTV system is dependent on the metadata that exists on DSS modulated (Mpeg2 SD) transponders at 101. 4 transponders carry software, that is...

There's a difference between national channels and local channels. Although they paused a couple of years ago, they were actively removing SD duplicates of local channels. After they were able to remove the spotbeams from the failing T7S satellite at 119, they stopped shutting SD duplicates...

That is one reason they have implemented SignalSaver, because fewer and fewer channels have SD duplicates.

It is now 25 days since the loss of local SD duplicates was reported here for the Charleston/Huntington WV DMA. 119 TPN 32 continues to show no audio or video PIDS, despite the fact that The SD duplicate channels for Charleston WV and Louisville KY are mapped to that transponder. I doubt...

This thread is about programs on the satellites, but you probably should shutdown and restart whatever you are using for streaming to reset tht newsmax feed.

The assumption is made that any Mpeg4 PID stream is HD, unless it is specifically labelled as SD. If any chennel assigned to that PID is labelled as SD, then the PID is classified as SD. That works for almost every other PID stream. Consider this a footnote to the TPNGrid: The Nexstar...

Many of them were SD. Changing the logic would create havoc for the classification of many other local channels. I won't code a specific exception for this dispute slide, which may or may not be in HD. It is a small problem.

You may have found a flaw in the logic of the analysis phase 0f our Capture4 program. But I am not sure. The T0C field just tells us that the digital stram is Mpeg4. It doesn't tell us whether it is SD or HD. The problem is classifying a single digital stream on a specific PID to be HD...

It is shown correctly as HD in the TPN Grids, based on the Toc fields.

That is a bit off topic, because it was an outage of a single stream within the multiplexed transponder signal, not the whole transponder digital content. You were able to tune to it, but it was just a black picture.

There are no spot beams on DirecTV's 119 satellite. D7S which had the spot beam transponders was retired a couple of years ago. Most of the markets that were on 119 had their SD duplicates removed. They reshuffled the remaining markets to the remaining 11 transponders licensed to DirecTV at...

They downconvert the HD feeds to SD and send each to its respective uplink facility, multiplexed with the other channels on that transponder. Any humans switching those severe weather feeds are at tthe LABC. My only point is that the SD feeds may be more readily available for this quick...