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1 west K2 TP 11.843 V

  • 16-08-2010 1:15pm
    #1
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone get this transponder (UPC HD) 1 west 11.843 V 30000 3/4

    Its a K2 beam, which is strange as i can get most of the K2 beams but not this one?


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  • #2
    Gargantuan
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭Gargantuan


    Can't get a lock on it either , it flicks between 0 and 50% but not able to tune anything in.


  • #3
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,303 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    61% in Dundalk AzBox 1.1m dish. 6 HD channels all encrypted.


  • #4
    tomslick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭tomslick


    Perfect here in the South Coast. 60% on CT HD with Serpico on now and both HD HBOs are grand also.

    88cm dish with Vu+


  • #5
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Again it just shows how the signal drops off this far west!


  • #6
    sob1467
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭sob1467


    snaps wrote: »
    Can anyone get this transponder (UPC HD) 1 west 11.843 V 30000 3/4

    Its a K2 beam, which is strange as i can get most of the K2 beams but not this one?


    I can't get a sniff of that frequency with a 100cm in Donegal.


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  • #7
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Probably Ireland is mostly in Fresnel Zone. So moving 50 km at right angles to footprint you may get peaks and nulls of signal level as it drops off into the cosmic noise. In South of Spain Astra 2D can change from usable and nothing and back as you go down a road yet is mostly OK (but large dish) in Gibraltar.


  • #8
    tomslick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭tomslick


    I'm going to use the term "cosmic noise" in a sentence today, Thanks Watty


  • #9
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I have a graph of cosmic noise vs frequency:
    124486.png

    This is why a less than 1dB NF is needed at 11GHz and irrelevant on band II VHF or Short wave (much more background noise at lower frequencies).

    At 10Ghz to 12GHz, unlike 10MHz, most of the noise is Cosmic, or the Sun as it passes behind satellite once a day (worst Spring and Autumn).


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