Es'hail-2 beacon frequency (non-amateur)
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10.706 GHz beacon OFF this morning?
Checked with two different SDR-sticks. Same results.
Unfortunately do not have a second LNB to re-check.
Normally its 26 dB SNR
73 DK2ZF JO43VH
Hmm... I thought my online setup went wrong, or the heavy wind rotated my dish
Glad to hear that might not a local issue, I was seeing no signal at all too.73,
Zoltan
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Hmm... I thought my online setup went wrong, or the heavy wind rotated my dish
Glad to hear that might not a local issue, I was seeing no signal at all too.73,
Zoltan
Both beacons are disabled right now ....
73, Charly
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I have significant reduced carriers on both 10706 and 11205 and no sidebands anymore. Maybe 20 dB-ish over noise.
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Seeing same as DH2VA on 11205
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Now Update: the two beacons now go into linear polarization and reduced power.
11205 V OFF
10706 V ON reduced carrier
11205 H ON reduced carrier
10706 H OFF
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I have significant reduced carriers on both 10706 and 11205 and no sidebands anymore. Maybe 20 dB-ish over noise.
My antenna had moved with the wind of this night ...... Now I also have about 20dB S / N.
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Here in JN57QS on a 1,5m solid dish still nothing on both QRG´s.
Be careful, there is also a sidelobe from a satellite on 30,5°.
This sidelobe changes the frequeny a view kHz by switching H/V
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I found that the beacon 11205 arrives well in polarization H and strongly decreases in V. On 10706 it is the opposite that occurs. Which could mean that the show is no longer in circular right now.
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It could be that they were switched to the MENA beam or maybe even a narrower spot beam.
It would be valuable to get reports in the MENA area or closer to Qatar.
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Tnx to all, confirming my obs this morning. Means
DK2ZF has one re-construction site less...
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I can also confirm the drop in beacon signal level and no significant cjhange in orbital position. The level drop is about 17...19 dB here. Receiving with 2.6 m dish.
73,
Viljo ES5PC
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I confirm horizontal polarization, it is carrier lowering.
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Looks like the beacons are emitting a smaller footprint with perhaps less power. What is still receiveable in Italy, here in JN57QS you can perceive the beacon just over the noise . The side lobe of the 30.5 degree satellite is still the same, so I assume that my receiving system is still okay.
How does it look in Great Britain or France? Or Brazil?
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Also lower signals at HA7ILM WebSDR.
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I thought my ant turned with wind when i checked in daytime.. but it seems everybodys suffering with same problem.
Here also low signals comparing yesterday..
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Extremely weak signal on 10.706 GHz here in Southern Brazil.
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Now Update: the two beacons now go into linear polarization and reduced power.
11205 V OFF
10706 V ON reduced carrier
11205 H ON reduced carrier
10706 H OFF
probable, almost certain, that now the beacons are on beam MENA with linear polarization.
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Beacon at 10.706 from 26e.
Signals dropped about 14 dB and receivable only in Vertical polarization -
Also lower signals at HA7ILM WebSDR.
Dear Heiner,
Minor notes: HA7DCD (me) running the setup, and not WebSDR but OpenWebRX (similar but open source, written by HA7ILM)
I made some dish alignments today, we had quite a strong wind and thought I lost the signal due to dish mis-alignment, but after minor fine tunes I couldn't get back it any better...
73,
HA7DCD
Zoltan
