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New satellite at 10 East

  • 19-05-2009 8:11pm
    #1
    dxhound2005
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    Eutelsat Communications today announced the full entry into commercial service of the Ku-band and C-band missions of the W2A satellite which was launched on 3 April. The high-capacity W2A satellite almost triples resources at Eutelsat’s 10 degrees East position, which is one of the most longstanding locations in Europe and Africa for professional video, data and Internet services.

    The transfer of services at 10 degrees East to W2A from Eutelsat’s W1 satellite was carried out successfully in the night of May 18 to 19. These operations were coordinated by Eutelsat’s satellite control centre at its Rambouillet teleport facilities, working in close collaboration with clients to ensure a seamless transfer.

    The capacity that entered into commercial service this morning enables Eutelsat to provide full continuity of service for clients already operating in Ku-band in extended Europe from 10 degrees East. It also brings Eutelsat significant headroom for expansion for new customers and extends coverage into new regions with high growth potential at a key orbital location.

    With W2A’s entry into service Eutelsat has also introduced a new mission comprising 10 C-band transponders. Centred over the African continent, the C-band footprint takes in large parts of the Middle East and central Asia to the East and stretches across to Latin America in the West. This capacity has enabled Eutelsat to immediately initiate new multi-year contracts with clients that notably include France Telecom for long-distance services between Europe and Africa, and with LR Group which has contracted for three 72 MHz transponders for enterprise communications and for connecting fixed and mobile telephony networks in Angola.

    Following this redeployment Eutelsat’s W1 satellite will be repositioned to 4 degrees East in early June where it will operate under the name Eurobird™ 4A    .

    Increase in signal strength with me on most tp's Strongest is 11163 H 2308 Noursat Telelumiere. Lots of feeds on 10 East.


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  • #2
    gtg60
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    Well, that helps me a lot! I just got some new lnb's for my multiblock today and have one spare so was wondering which of a few sat's to point it at, 10E was in the list but looks like that's chosen it for me, hopefully there's a dry spell tomorrow to do it.

    As a matter of interest what's the most popular sat's for Irish/ RTE feeds?


  • #3
    dxhound2005
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    1 West a lot recently but more lately they are moving around a bit to 27.5 and others. All in 4:2:2 which you will get on your AZBox. Do a search (bottom of page) on this site using the word "Gaelic", it returns 9 pages mostly GAA feeds. The busiest sats for feeds overall are probably 7 and 10 East.

    http://www.satelliweb.com/index.php?section=livef

    That site gives near enough real time details of active feeds (it's one hour ahead). You will notice feeds are most active late afternoons, early evenings and very few late at night.

    There is another thread about feeds here.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055440920


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