Alaskan MUX on 139

[elgemcdlf]

Is anybody getting this? I can not seem to lock it to save my life. Not even a blip. Am getting all the C Band stuff all the way up to 139.

[rainman]

Originally Posted by elgemcdlf

Is anybody getting this? I can not seem to lock it to save my life. Not even a blip. Am getting all the C Band stuff all the way up to 139.

never tried but heard it was only being received in the northern states due to alaskan beam.

[elgemcdlf]

lyngsat says Conus

[Darkman]

Doesn't matter in lots of cases, correct?

some Bird / tp could be ConUS, but still.. - some areas / locations can't get it... Pretty sure it happens like that. True?

[Iceberg]

The Alaskan mux is beamed there on spotbeam. AMC8 has 16 spotbeams and 8 CONUS

all H TP's are spotbeam. I know people in the Pacific NW can get it but I know people in Colorado can't. I know I can't here in MN

edit: This is from Mike Kohl at www.global-cm.net about a year ago

Previous occupants of the 139 West (and the Aurora satellite at 143 West...way before that), have had an 18/6 transponder split.
18 transponders were on an Alaskan spot beam, and
6 transponders were CONUS (typically TR 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23).

I don't know which transponders on AMC-8 are CONUS and which are ALASKA beam, but would bet that it's at least 12 Alaska beam channels, if not more. All of the channels that ARCS mentioned are definitely on Alaska beam. SEDAT and similar digital audio channels used by broadcast stations on this satellite are on CONUS beam, and broadcasters are advised to be very selective on their feedhorns
(the former ADL RP-1 worked best for my customers), and an antenna of at least 12 feet in diameter.

In any case, signals on this satellite are elusive to all but those in the Pacific NW. You are not going to get Alaskan TV in the Midwest---if it was possible, I would have made arrangements to do it myself long ago!