Fun challenge for east coasters with big dishes.

[ikki]

Can any one on the East coast with a big KU band dish get any thing off of this bird?

Badr 4/6 at 26.0°E

Most every thing on 26 East is unencrypted.

 

[Mr Tony]

that would be below the horizon for anyone in north america

 

[ikki]

http://www.dxsatcs.com/sites/defaul...ast-ku/Badr 4 at 26.0 e _ BSS footprint _.JPG

 

[Mr Tony]

thats a image of Europe and Northern Africa

 

[eurosport]

that would be below the horizon for anyone in north america

Yeah, I was like "Wow that's low on the horizon but maybe...."
-then I saw 26 EAST? oh well.

 

[ikki]

My dreams and hope have now been shattered......

 

[Anole]

But two points for finding that choice map. :up
Too bad it was on:
European Center for Satellite Reception in C and Ku Bands

Wonder how you got the site to work?
I didn't get anywhere with the links on their front page:

 

[turbosat]

Anole point your c-band really west, maybe you can hit from the other direction!

 

[Blindowl1234]

Hmmm.. I'd be tickled to get anything below 58W on a regular basis. Blind

 

[nycrich]

There is lot of C band lower than 58W. However that would require circular polarization as most of the sats (except 43W, 45W) on C band is circular. They are however much stronger in signal, less forgiving with skew settings, and easier to find.
I get NSS10(shows Setanta Africa/Sports with sig 87 on a Coolsat 4000). NSS806, NSS7 are also easier with a 6 ff dish.