Ajmandon

I don´t want to be another "merchant of doom" or drive too much speculation but in the last week or so a number of satellite forum that I keep track of have threads reporting that the satback "channels" currently available on the old intelsat 901, 27.5w satellite have appeared on another satellite, Telstar 12, 15w.

I can´t find any definitive explanation why but speculation is that this is some sort of testing phase prior to a more permanent transfer.

The really bad news, if true, is that the beam being used is much closely focussed on the UK and Northern Europe and those in Southern Europe will likely not be able to pick it up...........

calman014

Perhaps time to take a closer look at your SAT setup in general as we tend to expect them to keep working with no maintenance.

A Larger dish, new LNB, coax cable or even receiver...the newer hardware has so much more capability now such as UHD TV and Web Streaming.

Satellites get old too so it may be due to drop into the ocean some time soon..

wellinever

Havent seen any reports myself, except the one where all SD channels are now stopped and only HD available

wellinever

Update: now found the post I guess you are talking about.
https://www.satandpcguy.com/2024/01/...ng-satellites/
this is typical, France already gets all Freeview down at least as far south as Bordeaux on an 80cm normal dish, and now looks like them and people living in half of Germany, Holland Demark, Scandinavia will also be able to receive all of this for nothing, but of course not where the majority of Brits live.

dingg

Head north 🤔

Ajmandon

this thread;

https://www.sat-universe.com/index.p...B0west.320055/

When the MEV was attached to 901 to "replace" 907 it was announced that this would be in place for five years i.e. until mid 2025 before moving to do a similar job on another (unspecified) satellite..... The big unknowns (to me at least) is how long do we have left with 901? and if the plan is to move the services to this Telstar 12 beam we are stuffed!

john777

No signal on satback channels . Intelsat 901 11495.00 V 44100 9/10
Thought might be sun outage been 1 hour now ? Possibly refuel ?

bicabica

It's still off.

wellinever

yes just got in and no signal at all at 8.48pm

BillBullock

See latest update on https://www.satandpcguy.com/2024/04/...g-signal-loss/
I suspect we have seen the last of Satback on Intelsat 901. Thank goodness for internet TV using smartdnsproxy etc.

bons

My friend reported her TV going off yesterday (Uses satellite) and it's still off.

Lou71

Unfortunately it looks like Intelsat has come to an end.

We are going to use our Amazon firestick for all the live stuff plus we have our Sky contract for football and the Sky catchup service which is very useful.

BillBullock

What I will miss is the HD video. Neither BBC iPlayer or ITVx are more than SD. Also, it was so much quicker to access whatever channel you wanted.

1711JohnB

Amazing. All these people wanting to live in Portugal, become residents and make outlandish statements about us Brits wanting to leave the EUSSR but still wanting to watch British television but not contribute to it. Unlike in Portugal, having to contribute to AV services through their electricity bills and not watching it.

wellinever

Shame then that FULL Freesat is available to `Anyone` with a small dish and Freesat box living in Northern France (down to Bordeaux) , Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Germany.
The newer footprint still covers all of those areas