SatMex6

elgemcdlf · #1 (**permalink**) 07-30-2006, 04:40 AM

Ok everyone. English is easier for me as my Spanish is quite poor

If you are using a big dish with C Band capabilities time to lock this bird in and scan away. I got 33 of the channels in last night and some look very good. Quality is across the board. Some very strong and some barely locking.

Anyone that speaks both well perhaps can translate for the nonenglish members. The list at lyngsat is fairly complete but I found one or two not listed there. For 4DTV users there is no tile for M6 but if you know how to use your receiver you should be able to get the DCII channels listed there. They are simply a repeat if a mux in DVB.

wejones · #2 (**permalink**) 07-30-2006, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf

Ok everyone. English is easier for me as my Spanish is quite poor

If you are using a big dish with C Band capabilities time to lock this bird in and scan away. I got 33 of the channels in last night and some look very good. Quality is across the board. Some very strong and some barely locking.

Anyone that speaks both well perhaps can translate for the nonenglish members. The list at lyngsat is fairly complete but I found one or two not listed there. For 4DTV users there is no tile for M6 but if you know how to use your receiver you should be able to get the DCII channels listed there. They are simply a repeat if a mux in DVB.

THanks. I'm pretty much out of the footprint of Mexican sats, so I haven't even bothered to try tuning in any of them for years, however reading your message I decided to give it a try. I noticed on Lyngsat that one of the channels, the DCII channel, was using a footprint that looked like it came up to Maine, so I gave it a try. I hooked up my SW, and listened for a 19.51 MHz signal while moving my dish, and sure enough, I came up with a strong signal "near" where I thought Satmex6 should be. I tuned it in with my DCII receiver, and it was the Mexican Mux. NEAT!

After having that success, I decided to try some of the other channels listed in Lyngsat, all of which had footprints that fell well short of Maine. As expected, I didn't see any of them. However I did a spectrum scan, hoping to see which channels might be strong enough to try, and it showed a bunch of peaks that should be strong enough to lock, so I did a blind scan, and found a bunch of channels, none of which seem to be listed in Lyngsat???? Weird, I thought. I wasn't sure if I'm seeing bleedover from another sat or what, so I looked in Lyngsat, at SatMex5, and sure enough, SatMex5 has the same DCII mux at 4180, and it has all the channels I scanned in. So I guess I'm sitting on SatMex5, not SatMex6. Still, this is the first time in years I've seen any of the Mexican sats, and I guess it's mainly because I've never even bothered to look, thinking that they were too weak to tune. But I guess the key is, that they have different footprints on the different channels.
Anyway, I"m off to look for SatMex6 now, to see if I can see anything there.
Neat. :-)

rainman · #3 (**permalink**) 07-30-2006, 08:45 PM

been locked in on satmex 6 for about a week some good program just don't understand anything that's said.LOL the joys of fta.

rleehamn · #4 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006, 12:15 AM

Not sure on the C1, c2, c3, on lyngsat. (c-band?)

anyway trying to site in satmex6 on my mercury II..

I go to add sat (satmex 6) and put the 113.0 w and set for my lnb. 9750/10600

can't figure out on how to have more than just the default transponder 4000/H/20000 (not sure if got to select different lnb then what i have)

also heard that G16 took G4R place. I can't get signal on G4R and having trouble on setting G16 as well.

Thanks

rainman · #5 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006, 07:25 AM

don't know on the mercuryII but on the ultra you can add or delete transponders under the edit transponder menu.

elgemcdlf · #6 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006, 07:40 AM

On my Platinum once I am lined up no the sat in question I just do a blind scan to load the sat with transponders. If any are missing from the lyngsat list I manually add them afterwards in the manual search menu area.

wejones · #7 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by rleehamn

Not sure on the C1, c2, c3, on lyngsat. (c-band?)

anyway trying to site in satmex6 on my mercury II..

I go to add sat (satmex 6) and put the 113.0 w and set for my lnb. 9750/10600

can't figure out on how to have more than just the default transponder 4000/H/20000 (not sure if got to select different lnb then what i have)

also heard that G16 took G4R place. I can't get signal on G4R and having trouble on setting G16 as well.

Thanks

The c1 c2 c3 channels, ie those with frequencies between 3700-4200 MHz are all C-band, and you can't receive those with your system.
You should NEVER select an LNB other than the one you actually have. It won't hurt anything, but that setting tells the receiver what you have, not what is required for a specific satellite.
No need to change G4r to G16, the receiver doesn't know the difference. I don't know the reason you don't get anything from G4/G16, but it's probably that you are looking for things you can't receive. Again, you can't receive the C-band programming, and there is very little DVB available on the Ku side, as most is DCII format that you can't receive, and the DVB that is there is mainly scrambled.