What is the latest on Nimiq 4?

**jman** · 07-31-2010, 06:14 AM

Signal strength in North Bay is 97 to 100 % on all transponders for HD. This is a great improvement from 70 to 75 that was obtainable before. I do think the
to PQ is better as well.

07-31-2010, 06:59 AM

Good question.
It sounds like your friend is around the Minneapolis latitude?

I hope then someone that knows about spot beams can answer - but maybe they use overlapping circles (for lack of a better word) to cover Canada? Maybe the 8 Ka band channels are used this way?

It will be interesting to see a coverage map when this is all said and done.

07-31-2010, 07:32 AM

To watch the launch the 18th 17h30 eastern:

http://streamvox.streamos.com/vyvx/ils091808/

07-31-2010, 07:34 AM

It used to be.. I had some pretty long signals on 82 when using a 20" dish.. If I use a sperate lets says 24".. it was no problem.. could hit the high 90's. Now with Nimiq4 up there.. litterally half of my transponders hit 100% but before it was as low as 50%,, yet 91 was hitting mid 80's and 90's no problem. Its like you had to compensate for one or the other, high signal on 82, then crap for 91 or vice versa. But how do you chose?? you want HD but then you dont want to necessarily sacrafice the core programming?!?! 72.7 might be fine in the West.. atlease Alberta.. I cant see it being that difficult getting 72.7 from here is 82 is comming in as strong as it it.. but why 129?? thats further west than Starchoice... theres no way bell can have a dish to hit 82,91,129?? lol its 38 degrees.. Maybe Bell needs to consider 99 or 101?? who knows..

07-31-2010, 07:39 AM

Hopefully they can move some current HD channels over, convert eveything to MPEG4 aswell as add some missing HD channels like CNN HD, TLC HD, SPEED HD etc...

07-31-2010, 07:45 AM

So Nimiq 4 is taking over slowly.. Friday Oct. 3rd, TP29@82W I had a signal strength of 66%, this morning I have 95%.

07-31-2010, 08:07 AM

Only 1 transponder coming through from 82 in northern CA. I'll give it a few more days before doing something drastic like moving my dish around...

07-31-2010, 08:12 AM

Legally, 12.2-12.7 ghz requires 9 degrees seperation, although currently 4.5 degree seperation is being reviewed for that spectrum. Dish in the U.S. is pushing hard for this, and will need to get CRTC and FCC approval for this, as they want to put 'tweeners' that could in theory interfere with 82w and 91w.

**987654321** · 07-31-2010, 08:14 AM

All Russian launches are delayed due to booster rocket failure last year.

07-31-2010, 08:17 AM

Dish, not Direct TV.

-Mike

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