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satesco I asked Flysat to make a Ovzon-3 entry and he moved 3 of your previously reported IS-33e transponders there!
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These AEHF satellites are not only hopping frequency, but also hopping their location quite often!
3 are moving East.

Yes, 10805 H was 62.0°E, I get the same 3 transponders on 62.0°E as you posted, just 2 dB less.

My scan. I can't get 10711 H and 10727 H to lock with manual SR.
I think more beams are at play.

Since 59.7°E Ovzon-3 is co-located with 60.0°E Intelsat 33e, probably Ovzon-3 has frequency ranges that IS-33e does not have.
These are 10700...10950 and 11200...11450 MHz. I found 3 strong data transponders there, and a few weak unlockable ones.
10852 V 40000 ACM/VCM 8PSK 8/9
11262 H 64000 ACM/VCM QPSK 1/3
11387 H 64000 ACM/VCM QPSK 1/3
The 0.3° difference is enough to distinguish between the two, I'm pretty sure these 3 come from Ovzon-3.

(I posted this earlier today at satellites.co.uk)

Since 59.7°E Ovzon-3 is co-located with 60.0°E Intelsat 33e, probably Ovzon-3 has frequency ranges that IS-33e does not have.
These are 10700...10950 and 11200...11450 MHz. I found 3 strong data transponders there, and a few weak unlockable ones.
10852 V 40000 ACM/VCM 8PSK 8/9
11262 H 64000 ACM/VCM QPSK 1/3
11387 H 64000 ACM/VCM QPSK 1/3
The 0.3° difference is enough to distinguish between the two, I'm pretty sure these 3 come from Ovzon-3.

(I posted this earlier today at satellites.co.uk)

Paksat-MM1 (or MM1R as they called it before) is at 38.2°E already at least since June 7.
After the TLE shortly after launch, it took quite a while for NORAD to find it again, it happens more often recently.

WGS-1 left 6.0°E on 22 May 2024, and is relocated at 43.5°W since yesterday.
This is quite close to WGS-3 at 42.8°W, also I think WGS-1 started to incline, so it may have become a passive spare.

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This surely is Amos-4, that has 2 steerable beams, very strong when pointed to Europe. 14.0 dB here.
I remember it was used in the beginning (about 10 years ago), there must be reports about that here somewhere!
Edit: here is the old brochure: https://web.archive.org/web/2016030516…4%20english.pdf

I think Ku-2 beam is towards Europe now, while Ku-1 beam still towards Nepal.

HYLAS 2 started to incline since January 2024, now about 0.4°.

And according TLE, started to drift to the East since 2 days from its 30.04°E location.
So now if there is still Ka-band activity, it could be from EDRS-C (with payload called HYLAS 3) at 31.2°E.

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Our colleague, hvdh, had, or has, a site with "Geostationary Satellites from 80° W to 120° E". I tried to access it a few times, but I couldn't.

Since 2021 the URL is https://gso-satellites.nl/

It's also in the pull-down menu here on satellitescommunity!

Looked into the complicated situation at 74.0°E again, and now see that GSat-14 must be identical to its predecessor Edusat (GSat-3).
But GSat-14 shows little activity unlike Edusat back then, and the educational channels are on GSat-18 instead.

From Lyngsat tables on Archive.org it can be derived Edusat had 6 Ku transponders (10970, 11010, 11050, 11090, 11130 and 11170 H)
The latter was National beam (India), the other 5 were spot beams.

Also there were 6 Extended C-band transponders, of which only 4530 H was reported active.

So as I see it now (please give feedback if disagree):
10700...10950 & 11200...11450 : GSat-11 (HTS, many spot beams)

10950...11200 H : GSat-14

10950...11200 V : GSat-7 (Indian Navy)

11450...11700 : GSat-18

This is my little yagi for DAB+, pointing East. A Wittenberg WB305, but I use one director less, and extended one a bit.

It's only good in the upper part (ch. 9-12), I think full band yagi is a big compromise. Usually it brings in the 4 muxes from NRW, Germany.

There exist log-periodic antennas, 3H-VHF-12-LOG and 3H-VHF-16-LOG, they are cheap and I'm tempted to buy both!

Maybe the elements can even be extended so that I can be somewhat active again on 144 MHz (after 25 years)?

Anyone knows these log-per's?

Other than Yamal-601 having X-band (found no reference to that at all), clueless too for the time being!

Stimmt, IS-709 war über ein jahr auf 54,85° Ost.

Nachher noch auf 72,1° und 47,5° Ost, dann EOL ab Februar 2013.

Don't be confused, look for "Amazonas 6" and you'll find it's just another alternate name for Amazonas Nexus.
Hispasat site only mentions Amazonas Nexus (for now).

But there's a 3rd name coming for Intelsat payload!

From Gunter's Space Page:

"Intelsat has acquired in March 2023 a significant amount of capacity to meet demand for connectivity over the Americas. The company is leasing the satellite’s high-throughput Ku-band capacity from Spanish operator Hispasat for customers across the United States, Brazil, and North Atlantic Ocean. This capacity is called Intelsat 46."

I hope the little table I posted above from FCC is correct also for Europe, that only 11.7...11.95 GHz is Wide beam, and all the rest Spot beams.

Yes that frequency is possible from Nexus.
From the Attachment Narrative: https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-PPL-20210510-00062

Amazonas 2 only has coverage over the Americas in Ku-band.
Amazonas 3 has Europe beam, but only in 12.5...12.75 GHz range.

The new Amazonas 6 (a.k.a. Nexus), which is operational since mid-July, is more likely.
But we're still waiting the publish of Ku-band footprints. Satbeams site owner is also chasing it.
Hispasat seems in no hurry to update their website, still showing Nexus as a future satellite.

I think there is a miscalculation, but the method should be OK.
With the ancient software Gorbtrack, 13°E would be reached around noon on the 23rd.
But sometimes, the drift is slowed down in a few steps, resulting in a bit later arrival.