Blank Transponders

[slacker9876]

This morning I got a wild hair and decided to scan my transponders to look at signal while it was sunny & clear to get myself a base line. I took not of the following and have a question about them.

101 SAT - No Signal on 18/20/28, yest LyngSat shows them in use ... am I missing channels from these? (obviously nothing I watch)

119 SAT No Signal on 23/25/29 - These appear to be unused, is the bird full up or something? I though if you had TP space available.

Thes rest are 80 or better, anyway to get these to 90 & up with a Phase III?

Also does anyone know where I can get more information on satellites, capacities, etc? Thanks!

 

[PSB]

Not all transponders are in use as you pointed out, some of them are used as spot beams so they may be pointing elsewhere in the country resulting in 0 to weak signal levels at your end, you should be getting slightly better signals with a Phase III dish, I get 90's HIGH 80's up here in MN. I love the Phase III dish the signal gain is amazing for a dish of its size, its well worth upgrading to a Phase III dish even if you don't need it, or even if you cant get line of sight to all satellites, the gain jump is really impressive!

 

[slacker9876]

Thanks PSB, I do have the Phase III, I was thinking I should be able to do better in Colorado. I did note that my signals are down about 3 points on all TP's. Time to tweak again?

Why would it change? There are no trees in my LOS at all. There are houses but I have never has issues with them.

 

[Alvarez]

What is a Phase III Dish? How do you know if you have it?

 

[shappyss]

A phase III dish can see all three sats. and has an integrated LNB and a built in multiswitch so it can output to 4 recievers. It has 3 LNBs but they are connected in one piece of plastic. You know you have if you have three LNBs in one piece.