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P.S. You might be able to improve the Ka band signals a bit by fine tuning the dish alignment. The dish alignment is much more critical at those Ka band frequencies.

You are comparing apples and oranges. The issue here is what the LNB does with certain combinations of tones and voltage. You are talking about what the DirecTV STB displays before and after It initializes with a different LNB on the dish. The type of LNB and what it can tune to is only set...

The Satellite Transponder Tables are the most comprehensive combination of FCC licensing data, matched to tuning data in the Network Information Table, with references to the Beam footprints, and comments on the beam locations. It hasn't been updated in over a year, only because nothing has...

This may help you correlate the TPN numbers to the frequencies on the coax (IF frequencies). Net 0 is 101W, 10 and 11 are on 99W, 14 and 15 are on 103. As for the others, Net 1 was 95W, 2 was 110W, 3 is 119, 12 and 13 are Reverse Band.

A DIRECTV receiver that knows that it is connected to that SL3 multiswitch would never try to tune to a Ku band transponder with the tone on.

You shouldn't be seeing 119 or 110 with that SL3 LNB. I have never looked at the signals from one of those. The two spectra look absolutely identical for the Ku band. Since it cannot switch to anything in the Ku band based on the tone, it looks like the internal multiswitch is just leaving...

Looking at the graph for 18V, tone on, You are seeing all 16 transponder LHCP frequencies in the North American DBS Band plan. You are getting the 16 licensed to DirecTV and Dish at 119, superimposed with offset ones from Dish at 110. (TPN 28 from 110 is on the IF frequency of TPN 8 of...

If you only provide 18V to the LNB, you will only get the LHCP transponders. There is no interaction. There is an internal multiswitch within the LNB, and each output is independent of the other. Each output can accept Any of the 4 combinations of tone and voltage. (Lines 5 and 6 of that...

Here is a picture of my Legacy SL5 LNB. The model number is below the rightmost "eye" (99/101/103) in this picture. A SL3 that did not get 110 and 119 would only have that eye, not the two offset ones. Some LNB manufacturers did not use the 3 bubble cover, and had a flat plastic cover.

A couple of things are going on here. First, Dish Nework has licenses for 110 and 119, for the transponder slots that DirecTV is not licensed for. So they will appear on your spectrum analyzer. The chart you have is a good one for any DirecTV Legacy LNB, or a SL5 or SL3, but I believe the...

The attached letter to the FCC renaming the DirecTV satellites on September 20, 2022 lists all of the DirecTV satellites currently in use for DIRECTV service.

Thank you for pointing out that this is "HD". It is better than SD. When I was originally evaluating it, the program content was some locally produced nonsense, and tonights movie looks better. I think they are compressing the video a lot in order to fit in to their OTA digital tranmitter...

Yes, I can watch it OTA. Yeah, it's 720P, but it sure doesn't look it. The DirecTV mpeg4 feed of that signal is just as good.

My need for the RSN's went away when the ACC announced that the raycom gemes would now be carried on the CW. I just wish my local CW station was in HD. The CW app is no help, if there is a local station, it just streams the local station (SD in this case).

Does anybody live in those places?

THe INFO channels are really a Final Notice, to all the SD customers that have ignored prior direct mail and other communication.

In the past they have done it one DMA at a time, probably to ease the load on the CSR and installers. Raleigh won't be far behind.

I have been out of contact this week, and am just looking at this weeks data collection. There are now INFO notices warning folks watching SD duplicate locals on some 101 spot beams that they must upgrade their equipment. The INFO channels are now up for Orlando, Tampa, Indianapolis...

One or the other. My thought is the latter. If they are in final negotiation, the dispute slides wouldn't help.

I suspect that all of the PTNW channels are used for private business broadcasts for various companies. But that is just a guess. They may be scheduled for times when other part-time channels such as sports are inactive.

If any of you look at the Transponder PID counts, I have updated it to get rid of all the lines for things that are no longer used. The TPNgrids were updated to fix some labelling issues on the tabs and header line, also.

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...