Anik F3 118 discussion

[Pepper]

Now that Dish has ceased their international services which used Anik F3 at 118.7 W, maybe it will be used for something else. Questions that come to mind:
- that satellite was circular polarity, Ku FSS band. Is the polarity scheme in the "hardware" of the satellite or controlled by the uplink?
- On a "standard" FTA receiver what would be the parameters needed to scan it using the Dish500+ LNBF? I know the stacked LNBFs require higher voltage so I set it to H and tried every frequency starting with 10750 but it finds nothing, possibly because there's actually nothing there right now...? Receiver is a GTmedia V9 prime.

 

[cyberham]

photoman76 reported on Rick's a few days ago that there are only some data transponders remaining on Anik F3. They are linear, V and H, and in the low 12000 range.

 

[Brct203]

Now that Dish has ceased their international services which used Anik F3 at 118.7 W, maybe it will be used for something else. Questions that come to mind:
- that satellite was circular polarity, Ku FSS band. Is the polarity scheme in the "hardware" of the satellite or controlled by the uplink?
- On a "standard" FTA receiver what would be the parameters needed to scan it using the Dish500+ LNBF? I know the stacked LNBFs require higher voltage so I set it to H and tried every frequency starting with 10750 but it finds nothing, possibly because there's actually nothing there right now...? Receiver is a GTmedia V9 prime.

i think i read somewhere a long time ago that the polarity og AnikF3 is switchable from circular to linear

a regular dish500 LNBF (made for typical DBS range, with LO=11250) would not work on Anik F3 (11.7-12.2), unless you have an OSMIO4k/plus running TNAP 5.1 with the modified driver that allows going lower than 950 MHz