172E Eutelsat 172B Ku in NA?

[mr3p]

Replaced a dead HH motor this weekend and decided to test my East West limits. I was able to find 180E without much difficulty and there were a few ITC feeds. I might have found 172E although not sure as couldn't scan in any channels on the transponders found. According to Satbeams there are spotbeam footprints which reach the US west coast so just wondering if anyone has succeeded and if so which transponders were active?

 

[cyberham]

Can you find anything ITC on the following?
3888 H 10414 (encrypted)
3916 H 3330, or
3947 H 15000, or
4196 H 1415

 

[mr3p]

Sorry I mentioned Ku in the title but can see that I should have also specified Ku in the post.

 

[cyberham]

My mistake! You said Ku. I looked at your signature and saw no Ku dish so I assumed C.

I have my inverted fixed dish on 180E and the signal is great at about 12.5 dB typically. To try for 172E, I need to swing west about 7 degrees in azimuth and lower the dish by 5 degrees for an elevation of 8 degrees. Provided a tree doesn't get in the way (I'm looking through a forest of them) and provided the resulting 8 degree elevation doesn't have me looking into my local hill, then I can check by trying some blind scans.

 

[cyberham]

Blind scans aren't pulling anything in. I may have trees in the way though. Much harder when you don't know of an active transponder that's receivable.

 

[mr3p]

Thank you for trying! FWIW "WSI WS9036" in my signature is a 36" Ku dish. RIP WSI.

I found a few transponders which I think may be 172E although not sure. I'll grab the ones I found and post them shortly to see if you can replicate. Satbeams shows a Ku-band North Pacific beam and Ku-band HTS10/HTS11 footprints which reach the western US although can't find any information on which transponders if any have active feeds and maybe they aren't used for video. Satbeams could also be outdated or incorrect. The North pacific beam looks promising unfortunately nothing shown on Lyngsat. Somewhere I recall a website similar to Lyngsat with a focus on Europe/Asia although that may have been long ago.

 

[mr3p]

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