Got a chance to check the the satellite with the high data rate 49088 transponders, and yes it is inclined, had brilliant signals one evening, and they slowly dopped down in strength as the sat moved out of the beamwidth of the Dish, I used one of the sat tracking programs i use for amateur sats and could watch it track, so many thanks for pointing me in the right direction on that one, I would never have picked 152, as there are no listings around for the signals i could receive. I only get an hour or so at night to spend time in the radio room and and on the sats during the weekdays, up at 2am and we both leave for work at 3am and normally get home around 5pm..
looks like i have the positioner and dish set up, close enough to track to different sats, will need a nudge i guess at some stage, when I look closer to the horizon and the western sats..
still setting up the software and finding which programs work the best with the positioner, once i get all the eastern sats positions into the software, i can start looking west.
New LNB's on order, along with a roll of RG6.
The TBS-6903x as most people say is very slow on blind scan on Windows, but I have been using smaller chunks of spectrum, and that seems to make it less painful. I had installed the latest version of Ubuntu, 24.04.3 and it was so slow, the issues with snap and Gnome, just made it so slow, I did have a dual boot, I have formatted that drive, might install dragon OS, I used to run it on the old machine, without any issues. if i was a windows owner that moved to Ubuntu because of Windows 11. I would be very disappointed with Ubuntu.
11044 V Sr 45000 Fec 4/5 DVB-S2 16 APSK ABC mux 11612 V Sr 3579 Fec 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK ABC Feeds 12610 H Sr 30000 Fec 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK TV PLus mux
169E i dont have any handy freqs, but usuall sports feeds in the 11ghz range. Rest of that sat is mostly data and depends on your location as it has many spot beams.. better in eastern aus.
G'Day Craig, I think apologies if I got it wrong, It's been a few years.. I figure you would be the only person i could think of to answer my questions.
I have followed you for a very long time, when Vetrun was still active, shame it's gone. and APSATTV, I don't see many other sources of info in Australia, which is a shame, unless they are closed groups these days??, this site seems interesting, informative and the group seems friendly, I had been out of the hobby for a fair while, having to take down the antenna farm to put in an 18x7 meter shed, and the larger dishes haven't gone back up since, I still do have a 90cm on a DG240 rotator. I stumbled across Rob's VK8FOES, videos and contacted him. I picked up a TBS6903X, I had been watching one on Ebay for a while and the seller made me an offer, dropped the price around $180 Canadian, an offer too good to refuse. It arrived last week.
My Cabling is old from when i was doing paytv installs for Galaxy and Austar. and my LNB's are in need of replacement, so a bit of attenuation with the cables and the LNB's I have swapped around, but not a lot of difference.
But I set the dish back up last week and this weekend i managed to do some more adjustments, I hooked the spectrum analyser up to one port and was able to adjust the dish and motor, much easier.
Intelsat 19 was good, with a number of the Channel 9 feeds viewable, But I will order a couple of new LNB's as signals are lower than expected.
But I did track east with the spectrum analyser and found some signals. I ran crazyscan and a few other programs.
and the following frequencies were found.
12280 H 1/4 49088 QPSK-S2
12343 H 1/4 49088 QPSK-S2
12405 H 2/3 49088 16APSK and also blind scanned as 8PSK and QPSK-S2
12405 V 1/4 49088 QPSK-S2.
I was thinking maybe Horizons 3E, But looking more towards Eutelsat172B
What's your thoughts, could not find any listings online for that data rate
