20.0°E Arabsat-5C

positioned at 17°E, result from 20°ELocked at

3886 V 27500 5/6

3966 V 27500 3/4

... a technical problem, sorry

Nothing unusual I found on this satellite.Scanned with CS,IQmonitor and TBS Blindscan.

3797 L 1850 SRTV , new crazy parameters now, 8PSK 8/9

7db here,2m.

New: 3851 L 1261 2/3 8PSK, 4 Vision TV

What I found at the moment with my antenna and in the area; to which I add a 6903x card scan and neumoDVB app on Linux.

I have to make a clarification about neumoDVB, which I'd better make from the beginning. I should not compare its spectrum with Crazyscan and EBSpro or IQmonitor, because for these I used the 6983 cards, while for neumoDVB I used the 6903x card.

It is good to remember this, for reasons that seem obvious to me, the most important being that the DVB applications (Crazyscan, EBSpro, and IQmonitor) for Windows have been designed and, I would say, polished by CrazyCat, Christian, and Strannik to make the most of the extraordinary capabilities that the STV6120/STV0910 of this card has, which are enjoyed primarily by dxers, but also by other users.

For the 6903x card we still have to wait (I don't know how long) for someone to get the "steroids" out of this card. For now, only CrazyCat is trying under Windows to bring it to the same level of performance as the 6983, precisely because this card has high-class hdw support. But of course, many things for this card no longer depend on him.

Probably for the same reasons but with a different approach, the developer Deeptho has created special drivers for some DVB cards and its own application (neumoDVB) under Linux, hoping and in good part succeeding in exploiting the potential of 6903x/690x, using a different algorithm for searching and locking the signal, which resulted in a significant improvement of the card scanning time. On the other hand, it has managed to make the demod stid135 lock at a low symbol rate even below 500 kS/s, which Windows does not manage every time.

I won't go into details, but I mentioned these things because also at the level of the application interface (blindscan) there is a difference in graphics (and not only) between, say, IQmonitor (since Strannik mentioned it) under Windows and the one chosen by Deeptho for Linux.

Without going into details, I can answer Strannik's "disappointment" with the answer I received from Deeptho's developer when I asked him about the color that distinguishes polarities in his application, and the answer was: "Blue is used for the first graph, orange for the second, and so on. If there is only one graph it is blue."

I apologize for going on longer than I should have. I admit it's my fault that I shouldn't have posted the results for 6983 on Windows with 6903x on Linux obtained with the neumoDVB app.

Deeptho's neumoDVB app needs to be discussed/written about separately, especially for 6903x/6909x cards. But since the application is still in progress, I kept postponing writing; plus I am confused by some things, especially since I come from a Windows environment and have to learn many things in Linux