Nothing yet, they can't add more due to clashing with existing Optus D2 broadcasts.

Email from Sky on 3rd April: 

Sky have been moving some channels around over the last 2 weeks and a couple of their unused D2 transponders appear to be powered down. 

I'm really surprised we're not seeing more signals of Koreasat 6 at this stage. Still just 12650H

3 services on the Aussie side of Optus D2 left on the 31st, there is one data service remaining

Beavis:

 

We live in "remote" Invercargill. Going to be busy if everyone in Invercargill gets one of these emails...

Not everyone in Invercargill, but a few people in "lower Southland, Gisborne and East Cape, and upper Northland" apparently may need new dishes to pick up the signal from the new satellite:

https://archive.ph/Owrx7

Does anyone have any thoughts on why software updates would need to be sent to the black sky boxes for reception to work with K6, excluding channel movements of course.

I was expecting this thread to pop up again.

Between Tuesday - Saturday, midnight to 6 AM, they'll be doing a lot more extensive testing on Koreasat 6 before the April 14th switch over. I think certain channels they'll be flicking on/off as they do this in the wee hours.

I think they only have like 1,000 dishes to sort for possible reception issues, but are expecting a few more after the switch. They said it was for slightly larger/higher gain ones. It's probably a skew/polarisation tweak to go with it.

Ross L., They were saying something about testing new technology this week on Koreasat 6 too. I don't know if that means anything to do with DVB-S2, modulation method or resolution.

What they mean by software updates the black boxes will need to look for the new home transponder. Home transponder contains the NIT (network info table) with other transponders and paramters.

As part of the box powerup process. It goes looking for certain freqs. Including the backup sat at 156E

here is an example from the backup transponder on Optus 10 at 156E

Apsattv:

 

What they mean by software updates the black boxes will need to look for the new home transponder. Home transponder contains the NIT (network info table) with other transponders and paramters.

 

As part of the box powerup process. It goes looking for certain freqs. Including the backup sat at 156E

here is an example from the backup transponder on Optus 10 at 156E

Thanks for that. I'll need to know what the new home transponder freq is when it changes, for reasons I won't go into here. I may need your help then.

I crunched a few numbers and compared few footprints and came up with this

 I am in one of the Red zones Upper Northland

Apsattv:

 

I crunched a few numbers and compared few footprints and came up with this

do you have map of the old one to compare?

i'm guessing those in top of SI are going to get a thumping strong signal.

Dont read too much into it, the red zones were areas Sky have publically commented on as may need bigger dishes installed.

I applied the previous footprint from when it was parked over Korea along with few A.I adjustments

Yeah it works great on a 45cm where I am. 

What reading do you get on your tuner menu after going to channel 777 ? post a pic if you can.

@Apsattv

Picture as requested in the double digits so not bad at all

Thanks

12.1 is for your Ksat6 some in Invercargil are reporting under 7. My K6 is 18+ 

You might be ok, then fine tune it after the swapover, as power levels can change once the satellite fully loads up.

by fine tuning i mean adjust the lnb skew as its miles out compared to Optus. 

Does your decoder swapover to streaming at all..I have heard that 12 is the cutoff point where it switches over..