Amc 15 105

[Bibbler]

Anybody ever see anything on this bird except the Dish Promo Channel???? According to LyngSat, it has lots of channels listed as Feeds, but I blind it every few days and never have seen anything..

[Jose47]

There is nothing FTA on 105 other than Channel ID. If I'm not mistaken Echostar still using this bird.

[wejones]

There is an Echostar slate up on 11928H/3978 . Perhaps this is the ID channel mentioned above, although there is also a Dishnet slate on 11840/26000. Found a couple Dishnet transponders (11740H, 11840V, 12060H, and 12160V, all scrambled.
Also found a transponder with IP/DVB on 12173H/17780 , and a curious transponder at 11860H/30000 , which seems to be largely un-used. Ie 99% of the signal seems to be the NULL PID. A bunch of other PIDs pop up apparently with data on them, but it's not IP/DVB format. So I'm not sure what this one is. Seems like a waste of bandwidth though.
Also, a nice strong peak at 12124, but I can't seem to lock it, so I'm not sure what it is. I'm afraid that the inability to lock may be due to my ULTRA getting it's unable to scan sickness back, because after scanning in 3 or 4 transponders, I went back and now it won't scan in what it just scanned in 10 minutes ago. I may try scanning again later with the Mercury.


When I tuned in one of the Dishnet channels, I looked at the NIT, and that only lists 4 Dishnet transponders on that sat, ie 11740L , 11840V , 12060L , and 12160V . Ie I can't remember, but I think this is one of those sats that is capable of transmitting both in linear and circular. THere seem to be great variance in signal strength of transponders on this sat, so perhaps some transponders are linear and some circular now. Or perhaps the NIT is in error, which wouldn't be unusual.
But in any event, it looks like Dishnet may be phasing out use of this sat (based on the Echostar slate, which seems to be asking for customers), so it's probably a good sat to keep an eye on.

Forgot to mention.... There is also the NTSC analog slate (Echostar slate, not Dishnet), at 11940. This came up very weak on my receiver. Tried to touch up the polarity, and it was almost unchanged by changing polarity. If I change polarity by close to 90 deg, then the signal goes away, but I can change it close to 30 deg either way without any noticeable change. This supports the above suspicion that some of the transponders (perhaps horizontal) may be circular polarization).

[elgemcdlf]

Originally Posted by Bibbler

Anybody ever see anything on this bird except the Dish Promo Channel???? According to LyngSat, it has lots of channels listed as Feeds, but I blind it every few days and never have seen anything..

Al,
Are any of those feeds showing "hot"? Many times a tp designated for feeds will show signal but have no audio or video due to no feed at that time. If they are dead (no signal) the feeds may no longer be there at all. Of course as feeds go they can come back at any time. The answer to your question from me is I have never really hunted that sat for feeds. I primarily concentrate on channels. Orbit lists feeds for the big dish, days and times so if I want to watch a feed I use it. If you have an analog receiver try hooking it up to your dish and buying a copy of Orbit. Feed info is usually same week to week so one copy should suffice for a long time. Many feeds are now digital though. Nothing like watching Cops in Spanish