Strongest transponders

[Analoguesat]

Heres a list of nice strong tp's for various satellites ("borrowed" from the DS forum ). It might help you set your dish up on that elusive satellite. 28E not listed simply because 28E is so flippin strong almost any tp will do! This list is most useful for the UK, but can probably be used reasonably successfully in countries close to the uk as well.

45E, 12677V, 3296, 7/8
42E, 12506V, 2222, 5/6
39E, 12565H, 13333, 7/8
36E, 12707V, 4340, 1/2
33E, 11513H, 30000, 3/4
26E, 11747V, 27500, 3/4
23.5E, 10758V, 22000, 7/8
21.5E, 11489V, 2170, 3/4
19.2E, 11538V, 22000, 5/6
16E, 12650H, 15000, 2/3
13E, 11541V, 22000, 5/6
10E, 11152H, 2170, 3/4
7E, 11283V, 27500, 3/4
5E, 12449H, 12130, 7/8
1W, 11325H, 24500, 7/8
4W, 10743H, 3750, 3/4
5W, 12543H, 27500, 3/4
7W, 12015V, 27500, 3/4
8W, 11093H, 27500, 3/4
12.5W, 11389H, 17252, 5/6
15W, 11519H, 3744, 7/8
18W, 11584H, 9333, 5/6
22W, 11614H, 1612, 7/8
24.5W, 10981V, 11575, 3/4
27.5W, 11687V, 5632, 3/4
30W, 12226V, 27500, 3/4
43W, 12650H, 30800, 7/8
45W, 11510H, 26694, 5/6
58W, 11477H, 26463, 3/4

[jontydog]

Ok so from that list, with an 80cm dish should I be able to get the majority of them from Cheshire because at the moment the only 2 I can receive are 19E and 13E. Before we moved house and in the old d2mac days I used to be able to pick up 1W and 7E too but I am struggling here.

[Analoguesat]

Not neccessarily.

7E is fairly strong. Almost all the 1W tp's are rubbish here on an 80cm dish.

Go to www.digital*sat.co.uk - (Remove the *) - and see what I can get on my setup (mainly 80cm dishes). You should get most of the tp's I can see from your location, and that will give you a dozen orbital slots to start with.

[jontydog]

Cheers m8 will have a look now, managed to get 16E this afternoon think I was relying on the sat meter too much cos 13E and 19E seem to have the strongest signals. Had a mess about and put the dish in between the 2 and turned the dial down on the sat meter and bingo. Got soaked in the rain doing it but it was worth it

[Analoguesat]

Once you know where the stronger sats are you can have a go for some of the other sats (Ive got trees blocking between 5W and 30W.)

[jontydog]

Gonna have a proper look over the weekend got a scaffolding pole on the way to put the dish on. A bit more permanent than leaning against a rabbit hutch.

[nanochickin]

Heres a list of nice strong tp's for various satellites ("borrowed" from the DS forum )

I had problems using the transponder settings at the start of this thread. Dont know if they have changed recently but i ended up using the ones that were in my CM1500 manual. :? I've put them below so other members can reference them if they need to.

Active Transponders For Technomate Motorized Systems

Bird Position Freq SR Polarity

PAS 45 45w 11510 26694 H
Telstar 11 37.5w 11494 19500 H
Hispasat 30w 11811 27500 H
NSS 803 21.5w 11605 40000 H
Intel 901 18w 11673 28571 H
Telestar 12 15w 11124 18386 H
Atlantic B1 12.5w 11132 03255 H
Express 3a 11w 11464 04340 V
Telecom 2D 8w 12747 02894 H
Nilesat 101 7w 11747 27500 V
A-Bird 3 5W 12543 27500 H
Thor 1W 11229 24500 H
Sirius 5e 11766 27500 H
Eutel W3 7e 11263 27500 H
Eutel W1 10e 11526 30000 H
Hotbird 13e 10892 27500 H
Eutel W2 16e 11304 30000 V
Astra 1 19.2e 12692 22000 H
Astra 3A 23.5e 11634 27500 H
Arabsat 26e 11958 27500 H
Astra 2 28.2e 11469 27500 H
Eutel W4 36e 12698 04340 H
Hellas 39e 12524 29000 H
Turksat 42e 12652 22500 H
PAS 12 45e 11500 04340 V Previously EuropeStar (Modified) Thanks for the Info AS

I had more luck setting my dishes up with these transponder settings than with the ones at the start of the list :

I hope someone finds these useful as they took me ages to type in.



Nano

[Analoguesat]

Oh it will be useful all right - anything that gives folks nice strong signals to look for has to be helpful

45E Europestar is now known as PAS 12

[BGonaSTICK]

Yeah, thanks Nano.

Your efforts were not wasted

[Mship]

Great post Nano

Already used this list on numerous occasions when messing about with my kit

Cheers,
Kev.