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    Modifying the LNBs on a DIRECTV AU9 (Slimline) dish for 18-degree spacing

    I'm thinking about modifying the LNBs on a retired Slimline/AU9 dish so that the middle LNB (for 110W) is disabled and the end LNB (for 119W) is passed through unfiltered when a 22 kHz signal is present. With 22 kHz on, transponders 8, 10, and 12 (and probably some neighbors) from the end/119W...
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    Bitrate Caps on Transponder 22 @ 61.5W

    I've seen Dish Network do plenty of senseless things with their bitrates, but this could be the worst yet. Just wanted to share the attached graphs here since this is likely to have quite a visible impact on PQ for some people. The first two attachments show the bitrate on channel 9513 today...
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    Possible trouble on 72.7W, Transponder 15

    Just wanted to check if others on the forum here are encountering problems with channels on Transponder 15 (12.428 GHz) on 72.7W. I'm seeing damage to the entire mux about once every 10-60 minutes causing brief (1-2 seconds) but sometimes quite ugly artifacts in the video on all available...
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    Eastern Arc SD Bitrates Up, PQ Down

    Late last year with the move to Nimiq 5 at 72W (Eastern Arc), Dish Network switched all transponders from QPSK to 8PSK providing ~10 Mbps additional bandwidth on each transponder. Sadly, instead of allowing the bitrates for all of the SD channels to be opened up to fill this extra capacity, Dish...
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    SD resolutions dropping on 110W

    Dish Network has started to reduce the resolution even further on some of their SD channels. Encore Drama and some other SD channels on 110W appear to be affected so far. Dish receives the video at 704x480, would normally reduce it to 544x480 for MPEG-2 channels, but now appear to be switching...