Echostar 16 at 61.5W

[Scott Greczkowski]

Hmm let me check the uplink pc and see if its stuck.

 

[charlesrshell]

Hmm let me check the uplink pc and see if its stuck.

WE TV is in HD now in my guide this morning.

 

[ggw2000]

It appears that the other site has a handle on the associated transponder/spotbeam for the E16 sat as it pertains to the conversion if they are correct..

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

That was added yesterday afternoon.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

There we go, I had it reprocess and it sent it out.

 

[nelson61]

14 of the 15 spot transponders should be active now (spots are 18-32). Transponder 31 lights up in the next group on Jan 21.

 

[whatchel1]

DFW moved from tp 15 spot to tp 24 spot. I as I expected lost some signal about 10 pts. Means the spot is a bit tighter, but I'm in the upper 50's so still quite livable. I won't have go out hunting a bigger dish. Unless I accidentally just stumble on to one, the 1m will work just fine. BTW they did almost all the work tween midnight and 2 AM CST.

 

[Chris36]

But why did my signal go up for WWOR HD if they were making it a tighter Spot beam doesn't make since to me.

 

[whatchel1]

But why did my signal go up for WWOR HD if they were making it a tighter Spot beam doesn't make since to me.

They like you.
It's a stronger signal bird. The spot you are on may not be centered over NYC. Over time we will see new graphics for where the spots are actually hitting.

 

[Chris36]

The new spot beams I can find are 22, 23 and 27 27 is for WSBK on channel 8775. 27 is for Providence I guess maybe 22 is for the New York Market and Hartford not sure I still get the old beams too.

 

[Chris36]

Also get 24 and 25 so still confusing where they are coming from.

 

[whatchel1]

Pretty sure all tps 17 thru 32 are now the spots for new bird.

 

[nelson61]

Pretty sure all tps 17 thru 32 are now the spots for new bird.

Starts with 18 . 17 is Conus only.

 

[whatchel1]

Starts with 18 . 17 is Conus only.

OK I go w/ that as there is signal on 17 and it doesn't switch to spot when I go there. Sure takes a long time for a lock on those tps now. I only see 24 & 32 and it takes 30 secs or more for those to show up.

 

[Chris36]

Yes it takes longer for me also to let you know. Still would like to know where the other beams are coming from I guess we will know as the weeks go on.

 

[whatchel1]

Yes it takes longer for me also to let you know. Still would like to know where the other beams are coming from I guess we will know as the weeks go on.

You mean the areas they are for. We know where they are coming from (61.5) just not to whom that they belong to yet.

 

[Chris36]

Yes that's what I mean sorry.

 

[dare2be]

They like you.
It's a stronger signal bird. The spot you are on may not be centered over NYC. Over time we will see new graphics for where the spots are actually hitting.

So the spot maps on SatMaps are not accurate?

 

[whatchel1]

So the spot maps on SatMaps are not accurate?

Don't know if they are. The bird just went up. Was thinking it was said earlier that these was just the maps that were from previous bird and that Scott was requesting the new maps. Are these the new updated maps? OK after comparing the E*12 bird spot vs the E*16 bird spot they are different so guess it is a new map. It shows that I would have app 1db drop in strength and would explain the less than 10 pt. drop in my signal. I think that E* turned the power up to tp 24 as it is now in the low 60's where right after the switch it was in upper 50's. My guess once the stabilized the move and the spot they kicked it full output. Yep something I checking now is tps that were dead to me earlier are now starting to show up. So I think all tps are now up on full power. But it sure is slow to lock on the tps on this new bird.

 

[RONZ]

Question: I notice that on spot 4 that I only have one transponder active at 60 percent. I assume this is spot 4 tr 32 Should I not see the remaining tr on the spot as well ?