Nimiq 4 strength
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Nimiq 5 is going to 72. It's also half leased to Dish, so it won't have the same footprint as Nimiq 4.
-Mike
-Mike
Or you should word it as the transponders that dish leases will have a US footprint.
nimiq 82 deg.
Here in Philadelphia I am missing tr 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16,17,20,21,24,25,28 and 32 -and yesterday 1,4,5,6,8,10,12, were missing. I have the 9200 PVR and the dish that was supplied in the package! I am missing TSN-HD 850 and CTV sports 851 among others. I am going to look at Star Choice and see if that's workable. It would be interesting to know how many Bell (paying) subscribers
that are in the U.S. will stop subscribing? And,yes I think the bird is tilted so Ca. gets a better signal-conserving power onboard the craft. I hope this info is useful to someone else. (p.s.) the signal dropped to average 43% from the previous 75% except tr 3 is 96%
Here in Philadelphia I am missing tr 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16,17,20,21,24,25,28 and 32 -and yesterday 1,4,5,6,8,10,12, were missing. I have the 9200 PVR and the dish that was supplied in the package! I am missing TSN-HD 850 and CTV sports 851 among others. I am going to look at Star Choice and see if that's workable. It would be interesting to know how many Bell (paying) subscribers
that are in the U.S. will stop subscribing? And,yes I think the bird is tilted so Ca. gets a better signal-conserving power onboard the craft. I hope this info is useful to someone else. (p.s.) the signal dropped to average 43% from the previous 75% except tr 3 is 96%
I'm sure there are way more than 8,000 Expressvu subs in the states. A friend of mine that works at Echostar said that 100,000+ has been said in front of him when it came to Expressvu subs they thought were in the US.
Who really knows though...
I'm sure he was referring to the hackers (those stealing the service) which likely explains the restricted foot print.
-Mike
-Mike
As of 7:30 Central Time here in Nashville, I suddenly find I have some of the transponders back and can pull in some stations.
I have the regular dish and apart from TP 2 and 3, most of the strengths are around 47.
The transponders I can now see are
2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32
The channels that now come in are
800
802
806
812
813
821
829
839
850
853
Not certain what all this means, but worth while waiting around a little and seeing if they change it back to nothing or bring the other transponders into a US footprint.
I have the regular dish and apart from TP 2 and 3, most of the strengths are around 47.
The transponders I can now see are
2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32
The channels that now come in are
800
802
806
812
813
821
829
839
850
853
Not certain what all this means, but worth while waiting around a little and seeing if they change it back to nothing or bring the other transponders into a US footprint.
Interesting... I just checked and I'm getting all transponders from 82 at 75% or higher right now...
He said subs so I assume it's people who pay and are not hackers. He said that it had something to do with the credit card on the account state of issue. I guess with that info, they can see how many are using US based credit cards? I know of a few people here in Colorado that have Expressvu accounts so I would think there's a good amount of paying for service south of the border.
You would think there are more hackers in Canada hacking Expressvu than in the US...so why would they move the footprint because of that?
Maybe the flood of cancellations this past week has made the suits rethink that tight footprint.
Of course, with my great timing, I just ordered CI from Dish, and next week 82 will cover CONUS!!
Still nothing on 82 here in Kansas City. Doesn't matter, my Star Choice PVR and dish are on their way. I'm switching regardless of whether 82 comes back for me or not.
tonight I am getting all 82 TP's in Minneapolis at 72-73 quality on the Coolsat...
There was a post somewhere around here (cant find it now) but it has a good point
Dish has authority to use 77W for their Eastern Arc system (along with 72.5 & 61.5)
with the FCC allowing that and 82 only being 4 1/2 degrees apart, maybe Dish and Bell have to tighten up their footprints so those 2 sats can work for the respective companies....because DBS needed to be 9 degrees apart...maybe the footprint thing might have something to do with it
Can anybody verify how the 9242 Signal Strength Meter operates?
Yesterday evening we had clear skies and I pulled in most of the even transponders with a multiple of 4. I was getting signal strengths of around 44-46.
Today it is quite overcast and I cannot find a lot of the transponders I could see yesterday. However there are one or two that still work such as TP8. If I go to the point dish menu it shows around 39-41, but if I move to another transponder that I received yesterday it tells me there was no signal acquisition. If I then go back to TP8 it cannot acquire a lock straight away but does relock with time. It can take a minute or two, but once it finds it it seems to remain locked on.
I assume that the receiver can only give a strength for a transponder it can lock onto and it looks as if I am right on the edge of that signal threshold.
A larger dish may help but I am not about to rush into that option till things settle down a little bit more.
Yesterday evening we had clear skies and I pulled in most of the even transponders with a multiple of 4. I was getting signal strengths of around 44-46.
Today it is quite overcast and I cannot find a lot of the transponders I could see yesterday. However there are one or two that still work such as TP8. If I go to the point dish menu it shows around 39-41, but if I move to another transponder that I received yesterday it tells me there was no signal acquisition. If I then go back to TP8 it cannot acquire a lock straight away but does relock with time. It can take a minute or two, but once it finds it it seems to remain locked on.
I assume that the receiver can only give a strength for a transponder it can lock onto and it looks as if I am right on the edge of that signal threshold.
A larger dish may help but I am not about to rush into that option till things settle down a little bit more.
Finally pull my receiver out after having it put on hold since July. I live just south of Richmond, va and I get transponders 2,3,8,9,12,13,16,17,20,21,22,24,25,26,28,29,30, and 32. On 2 i get 64 and on 3 I get 98. All the others are in the upper 40's to around 52. Dont know if this is a true signal though since i dont think the 82 sat is skew in right since even last year every time it rained I lost signal while i had no problem with the 91. So the worst i would probaly have to do is get a bigger dish for the 82. Right? Dennis
They clearly made an adjustment yesterday. With the exception of transponder 2, everything here (80 air miles south of Trail, BC) is in the mid to upper 80's. Transponder 2 is at 78. Previously, about half were under 80.
Still no improvement here in Northern California. Only Transponder 2 is viewable, and that's with a 90-cm dish.
