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Apsattv

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#318699 12-Feb-2025 21:59

This evening are running a test signal on Koreasat 6 details are

12650 H Sr 30000

I have 45cm dish sitting on a fold up chair, , the signal is booming in under cloudy conditions , a very powerfull signal as expected based on the EIRP map

There is some slight skew issues, I had trouble nulling things out due to it being such a strong signal.

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#3342195 12-Feb-2025 22:35

Off currently, ill post again when i see it

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#3342198 12-Feb-2025 22:51

Back on again..

any reports

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#3342500 13-Feb-2025 13:49

Yup test is working here and I had to make no changes to my dish or LNB.

LNB is attached with cables ties too! 🤣

I could not get a signal from the other test satellites at all.

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#3342504 13-Feb-2025 14:03

What signal readings do you have?

Can you test this.

12650 H Sr30000 tell me your signal readings, then change the polarity to Vertical save and scan the tp and give the readings for that as well.

What im seeing is the signal is in both pols at very similar high levels. Which is not good as it shows up a massive LNBF skew issue that will be yet another problem sky has to deal with.

on my sky installed 60cm i have strength %76 quality %85 on my meter in H pol and %74 %85 on V pol..no such crosspol issue with current D2 transponder.

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#3342508 13-Feb-2025 14:31

Apsattv:

What signal readings do you have?

Can you test this.

12650 H Sr30000 tell me your signal readings, then change the polarity to Vertical save and scan the tp and give the readings for that as well.

What im seeing is the signal is in both pols at very similar high levels. Which is not good as it shows up a massive LNBF skew issue that will be yet another problem sky has to deal with.

on my sky installed 60cm i have strength %76 quality %85 on my meter in H pol and %74 %85 on V pol..no such crosspol issue with current D2 transponder.

Standard Sky dish with LNB replaced a couple of years ago.

12650 H Signal strength is 68% - Signal Level -37.50 dBm

12650 V is 65% & -38.96 dBm

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#3342515 13-Feb-2025 15:05

If they really are only transmitting on H pol then you can see the issue with the LNB skewed correctly for Optus then you have a huge amount of signal in the oposite pol. This creates high BER (bitrate errors) or can even null the signal totally, not good!

Im gonna try and manually adjust my test dish later when the weather cools down.

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#3342551 13-Feb-2025 17:37

Apsattv:

This evening are running a test signal on Koreasat 6 details are

12650 H Sr 30000

I have 45cm dish sitting on a fold up chair, , the signal is booming in under cloudy conditions , a very powerfull signal as expected based on the EIRP map

There is some slight skew issues, I had trouble nulling things out due to it being such a strong signal.

how strong is the signal?

i wonder if it will cause box, lnb or amp overload issues.

edit: that was an issue in the early days with some of skys lnb's.

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#3346606 25-Feb-2025 13:18

Seeing some interesting data running a fresh scan against Optus D2 / Koreasat 6 at 160E. Seeing placeholders for some additional transponders. I'm using w_scan and it shows these existing D2 transponders

new transponder: (S2 f = 12581 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:1)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12608 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:2)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S f = 12519 kHz H SR = 22500 3/4 0,35 QPSK (169:169:3)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12546 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:4)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12331 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:7)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12358 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:8)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12268 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:9)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12295 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:10)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12707 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:11)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12734 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:12)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12394 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:13)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12421 kHz H SR = 22500 3/5 0,20 8PSK (169:169:14)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S f = 12456 kHz H SR = 22500 3/4 0,35 QPSK (47:169:21)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S f = 12483 kHz H SR = 22500 3/4 0,35 QPSK (47:169:22)) 0x4043

Plus 2 transponders off 156E

new transponder: (S2 f = 12287 kHz V SR = 30000 3/4 0,20 QPSK (169:169:81)) 0x4043
new transponder: (S2 f = 12727 kHz V SR = 30000 3/4 0,20 QPSK (169:169:88)) 0x4043

Plus the new K6 transponder

new transponder: (S2 f = 12650 kHz H SR = 30000 2/3 0,20 QPSK (169:169:89)) 0x4043

I can see the Channel 777 test on 12650H which has a great lock and an FTA 1080 feed.

No sign yet of the new transponder (12530 H) that Sky Open and some of the other channels are supposed to be moving onto

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#3346625 25-Feb-2025 14:01

Actually it looks like 2 of the DVB-S2 transponders don't currently have any current FV or Sky channels loaded. The network tables appear to be a bit confuses as 12546H sometimes shows an SR of 22500 and sometimes 30000.

S2 12734000 H 22500000

S2 12546000 H 22500000

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#3347756 25-Feb-2025 21:00

Yes those 2 have been empty the past couple of weeks.

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#3348217 26-Feb-2025 22:44

The Channel 777 Koreasat 6 Test channel is now available through Sky decoders. Via channel 777

Go to channel 777 on the remote then do system Diagnotic signal test look for 169/89 on the tuner menu

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#3348790 28-Feb-2025 21:35

So will Koreasat actualy end up providing a better/stronger signal than the old optus satellite?

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#3348802 28-Feb-2025 22:28

Eitsop:

So will Koreasat actualy end up providing a better/stronger signal than the old optus satellite?

@Eitsop Stronger signal over D2 yes

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#3349659 3-Mar-2025 16:05

Just got the email from Sky that they are pushing out software updates to "black boxes" starting tomorrow.

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#3349686 3-Mar-2025 16:59

We had extreme rain fade last night caused by a huge rain downpour. What was interesting was test channel 777 was out for 20 minutes, TV1 etc was about 10 minutes. Not what I expected...

Anyway, had a bit of a poke around in the diagnostic signal strength menu. Watching UK TV and doing the signal test I get on Tuner one 71/11, Tuners two to four about 65/11.2.

Watching Channel 777 on Tuner one 61/9, Tuners two to four about 65/11.

I must confess don't know what the different tuners is all about. Can someone explain? (old Pace Black box)

Thanks.

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