C-band LNB and Ku-band LNB, need some advice ...

[Jack36548]

Hi

First of all, I have a ChannelMaster 1.20m Here in Belgium, I can't complain in the centre of Europe. From 45°E till 37.5°W I believe (that one channel )

Question 1:

With my new LNB for Ku-band installed recently.
I have a lot of better signals, even so hard, that I need to move my motor
slightly in between 13°E & 13°E (hotbird) How's that possible ?
Changing your motor on same degrees ? But I must do it, or I don't have a signal on some transponders

Question 2:

I'm also very curieus for it. With my 1.20m dish, is it worth it to buy a C-band LNB ?? (Let's say this LNB costs 50 euro's) How many FTA channels can I open with it, here in Central-Europe (45°E till 37,5°W) ?
Are we speaking about 20, 50, 100 FTA-channels or more ?
If it's above 100, this seems to me a good investment.

Question 3:

I see sometimes the same transponders, but with a slightly difference:

DVB-S2 stream 33
DVB-S2 stream 34
DVB-S2 stream 35

Do I need a new receiver for it ? With my Spider, It doesn't work.
Also not: instead of 8PSK, I need to enter 16APSK?
Time for new box, than Spider ?

I thank you specially for helping me out
All is changing so fast lately ...

[spanky_1209]

Re: C-band LNB and Ku-band LNB, need some advice ...

Here I will try to anwser to your questions :

1. Question :

I think your satellite dish has not the right elevation angle.

2. Question :

You can look at this link down it is explained what is possible with the c-band in Europe :

_http://www.tele-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0607/eng/c-band.pdf

3. Question :

Here is a slightly anwser what DVB-S2 is :

Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation (DVB-S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system. It was developed in 2003 by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium, and ratified by ETSI (EN 302307) in March 2005. The standard is based on, and improves upon DVB-S and the electronic news-gathering (or Digital Satellite News Gathering) system, used by mobile units for sending sounds and images from remote locations world-wide back to their home television stations.
DVB-S2 is envisaged for broadcast services including standard and HDTV, interactive services including Internet access, and (professional) data content distribution. The development of DVB-S2 coincided with the introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video codecs.
Two new key features that were added compared to the DVB-S standard are:
A powerful coding scheme based on a modern LDPC code.
VCM (Variable Coding and Modulation) and ACM (Adaptive Coding and Modulation) modes, which allow optimizing bandwidth utilization by dynamically changing transmission parameters.

I hope this was helpfull to you If yes hit the THANKS button.