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I am now receiving good pictures from Badr satellite at 26.0E with a 1m mesh dish. Also decoding well with a Serit tuner and MiniTioune 0.7.
The next task is getting a 13cms TX setup, probably with a separate dish.
Is there any news on possible launch date.
73 Arthur

Hi Arthur
thats great to hear.
I have yet to box my minitioune but want to use it with Es Hail Sat.
What kind of RX levels are you getting?
Could you perhaps share your settings and a screen shot of the Minitioune display.

Re launch...... maybe 2018 LOL

who knows I have seen no updates for a while

73

Nick

Hi Nick
The signal from Badr4 is not strong but decodes well. I am using a old Sky LNB which is not particularly good but a 0.1db device is on order.
I am using a Technomate TM-5500 D satellite receiver and looping the IF output to the serit tuner. The broadcast signals use a high symbol rate of
27500Ksps which Minituone V 0.7 handles very well.
The picture is of BBC Arabic on 11996MHz Hor. 3/4
73 Arthur G4CPE

Thats fantastic, thanks Arthur.
I have a modified dual output LNB somewhere that I think I can feed directly to Mini Tioune.
One output is for SSB and the other for DATV.

I was wondering what size dish I would need and it looks like a 1m dish is going to be adequate from your picture.

Unfortunately my garden is North facing and so I am hoping a ground mounted dish at the bottom of thre garden will see over the house roof.

Everything crossed.

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Nick

My new 0.1db N/F LNB ( Technomate TM-1 ) has arrived and has been fitted to the 1m dish and is a big improvement over the old Sky LNB.
The Badr satellite at 26.0E is now really solid even in heavy rain.
I have been testing my set up performance at 10.495 GHz by using my 10GHz DATV TX acting as a beacon on very low power and have found the LNB to perform very well at this frequency with the IF output at 745MHz into a Serit tuner setup. My Technomate TM-5500 D satellite receiver would not tune to this low IF but I have discovered my CoMag SL30/12 is happy to work down at this frequency and will de code well at 1msb/s.

What is the latest info on a launch date for Es Hail sat 2 ? one site quoted 28/3/2018.
73 Arthur

Hi Arthur,
Keep an eye on this list as I'm sure it will be updated when the bird is ready.

It's down the list with no date at present.

https://www.rocketlaunch.live/

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