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RTE Announce FTA Saorsat service

slegs · 2010-07-14 09:28:55

RTE CFO speaking at Seanad committee announces that RTE will launch a Saorsat service with spot beam on Ireland of FTA PSB channels from Q2 2011. Presume Astra 28.2 but he didnt say.

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#1442 08-07-2011 2:09am

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Astro7 wrote: »

Anyone know which beam is being used at the moment for the Ka Sat tests….
http://www.satbeams.com/footprints this site has a footprint over Ireland on beam 17 and 24 ?

Beam 24 (GW4) is the Tooway internet beam. Beam 17 over Ireland seems to be intermittant on the satbeams maps, constant for southern Italy.

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#1443 08-07-2011 8:54am

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dbcool wrote: »

ka lnb be quick!
http://cgi.ebay.com/hughes-net-9000-radio-/320718256027?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aac4c379b

thanks for the link been looking for weeks for a ka band lnb managed to buy for $25 hope it arrives soon so i can try the soarsat signal here in north wales

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#1444 08-07-2011 9:48am

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watty wrote: »

no.

Thanks Watty, a third dish will be needed then

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#1445 08-07-2011 2:50pm

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well the hughes ka band lnb arrived today one hour ago and now i have soarsat up and running on a spiderbox blind scan and there they are signal 66% quality 28% seems stable using channel master 1.2m will try a 1m version when I get the time frequency display is 11.185 symbol rate 24992 the lnb was mounted horizontal

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#1446 08-07-2011 4:27pm

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Satwyn…What part of the country are you in ?… I have the same dish here with 78% signal and 42% quality on a Technomate 6900 HD with a Wildblue TRIA The signal does drop a lot with heavy rain.

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#1447 08-07-2011 4:28pm

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According to his posts, he's in north Wales.

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#1448 08-07-2011 4:34pm

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That seems to be a good signal….location here is Bray Co. Wicklow.

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#1449 08-07-2011 4:44pm

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yes correct north wales near the coast irish sea my signal is 68% constant but with a tweak the quality is now on 50% my meter has broken so not able to maxamise the signal took only a few muinites to lock onto the signal with a spiderbox 7000 set on blindscan looks like the tight footprint is not that tight i only used a small 1.2m channel master dish but had a 1.8m precision prime focus to try if the 1.2m did not do the job probably a smaller 1m dish would also work will give it a try when i get time

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#1450 08-07-2011 4:56pm

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Astro7 wrote: »

Satwyn…What part of the country are you in ?… I have the same dish here with 78% signal and 42% quality on a Technomate 6900 HD with a Wildblue TRIA The signal does drop a lot with heavy rain.

as the receivers and lnb's are different no true comparison can be made and i have no technomate receivers to try at this time also i'm using the hughes lnb

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#1451 08-07-2011 5:33pm

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Well done in north Wales,thats good progress and great for others to see.

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#1452 08-07-2011 9:56pm

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Back to the good old days, with BIG dishes :

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#1453 09-07-2011 9:50pm

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satwyn wrote: »

well the hughes ka band lnb arrived today one hour ago and now i have soarsat up and running on a spiderbox blind scan and there they are signal 66% quality 28% seems stable using channel master 1.2m will try a 1m version when I get the time frequency display is 11.185 symbol rate 24992 the lnb was mounted horizontal

Well done Shadwell (sorry satwyn - the only sat enthusiast in the village! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjUK8YsGmE).
Interesting that you are picking up the signal already, but maybe it's because there is no competing signal over GB?

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#1454 10-07-2011 7:27am

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fat-tony wrote: »

Well done Shadwell (sorry satwyn - the only sat enthusiast in the village! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjUK8YsGmE).
Interesting that you are picking up the signal already, but maybe it's because there is no competing signal over GB?

thanks for the comment fatboy sorry fat tony as for competing signal over the uk i think the uk signal will be a differenf frequency

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#1455 10-07-2011 2:46pm

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We should also take into account the very robust FEC of 1/2. The error correction might not be so high when the service goes live, and fringe reception may then become more problematic. Just look at what the BBC did with the HD channels recently when they opted for FEC of 8/9.

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#1456 10-07-2011 4:30pm

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satwyn wrote: »

thanks for the comment fatboy sorry fat tony as for competing signal over the uk i think the uk signal will be a differenf frequency

East Scotland Spot and Calais French spots are same frequencies as Irish Spot. Potentially.

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#1457 10-07-2011 4:33pm

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i have s 70% q 70% and not really alligned the dish tried a scan on both 1/2 and 1/3 fec both gives a picture i probably would be able to receive the signal ok on a 70=80cm dish maybe even smaller with a proper lnbf i'm not bothered if the service is not available here just wanted to give it a go as i do with many other sat signals in c and ku

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#1458 10-07-2011 4:35pm

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Any ideas where i could buy one of the hughes ka lnb,i want to test the signal here in Swansea.

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#1459 10-07-2011 4:50pm

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could possibly get you 1 and cheap swansea should be no problem with the right dish size but i can't guarantee the signal in your location

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#1460 10-07-2011 4:56pm

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Hi satwyn,
I would like to try the ka lnb on my 1.2m and 2.4m dish.

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#1461 10-07-2011 5:30pm

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John896 wrote: »

Hi satwyn,
I would like to try the ka lnb on my 1.2m and 2.4m dish.

don't think the 2.4 would be needed i got my lnb from e bay over in texas but the seller told me he has another if i need it pitty he did'nt tell me before could have saved on postage if what make dishes do you have ?

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#1462 10-07-2011 5:46pm

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Both the 1.2m and 2.4m are channel master dishes.

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#1463 10-07-2011 6:29pm

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sourpuss wrote: »

Hi everyone,I have a comag SL40HD sat receiver getting the channels from 19 degrees.I have a detailed 7 day epg on nearly all the main german channels.Does anybody know if connected to 9 degrees to receive Saorsat in the future will it get the 7 day epg for the Irish channels.

Assuming RTÉ stop arseing about with the EPG stream like the they are on DTT, then yes.

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#1464 11-07-2011 1:11pm

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satwyn could you get me a ka lnb not that bothered,on the price as long as i get one.

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#1465 11-07-2011 5:20pm

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John896 wrote: »

satwyn could you get me a ka lnb not that bothered,on the price as long as i get one.

i'll try but can't promise the person i got mine from said he had 2 said he will list the other one on e bay but i'm still waiting

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#1466 11-07-2011 6:11pm

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Here's one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/hughes-net-9000-radio-/320725271871?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aacb7453f

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#1467 11-07-2011 10:30pm

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Many Thanks Apogee and satwyn.

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#1468 12-07-2011 11:24am

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ZG3409 is the resident expert on Tooway equipment. From what's he has posted ideally you need to the two-cable RM4200N-010:model. If you have the single-cable RM4100N-010 model, then it's much harder.

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#1469 13-07-2011 3:39pm

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byte wrote: »

That's interesting. I don't think the Humax does this.

On the flipside, does the Sagem allow for simple DiSEqC switching?

I have to add a clarification about the Sagem freesat HD box, while the channel list does indeed add non-freesat channels from 3000 onwards, you can't type e.g. 3001 to access ITV1HD or Sky News etc. You have to use the channel list to access it!

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#1470 14-07-2011 2:25pm

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Here is another one too however it only,comes as a package.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hughesnet-Satellite-modem-and-radio-assembly-HN9000-/350467800935?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1336767007823075397

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#1471 15-07-2011 6:48pm

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Beam number|Beam color| Symbol rate| Center frequency| Polarization
1| Blue| 50| 19.73125| RHCP
2| Orange| 50| 19.99375| RHCP
3| Purple| 50| 20.11875| LHCP
4| Green| 50| 19.85625| LHCP

A third TP is now active, most likely data, at ~19995MHz.

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