I live in Cyprus, and use a 1.5m dish to receive SKY. (This is very small
for Cyprus, but does receive a large number of channels.)

I have just lost BBC News ch 503 and BBC Parliament ch 504. I suppose SKY
have moved them to another (weaker) transponder.

This change is unlikely to have affected anyone in the UK, I don't know what
size dish in Cyprus or the like will now be needed.

FYI
Y.

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:33:50 +0100, Y Dangle wrote:

I live in Cyprus, and use a 1.5m dish to receive SKY. (This is very small
for Cyprus, but does receive a large number of channels.)

I have just lost BBC News ch 503 and BBC Parliament ch 504. I suppose SKY
have moved them to another (weaker) transponder.

This change is unlikely to have affected anyone in the UK, I don't know
what
size dish in Cyprus or the like will now be needed.

FYI
Y.



Alba was moved at the same time as News & Parliament from 2A South to 2D

For the channels on 2D, 3M wasn't all that clever even in Pathos and I'm
told that 3M near Limassol now cuts out around 20:15

JonPhred

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:33:50 -0000, "Y Dangle"
wrote:

I have just lost BBC News ch 503 and BBC Parliament ch 504. I suppose SKY
have moved them to another (weaker) transponder.

Nothing to do with Sky whatosever. The BBC have moved them to another
transponder - and started using a non-standard symbol rate, to boot,
just to squeeze a few extra bits out of the deal.

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Y Dangle wrote:
I live in Cyprus, and use a 1.5m dish to receive SKY. (This is very small
for Cyprus, but does receive a large number of channels.)

I have just lost BBC News ch 503 and BBC Parliament ch 504. I suppose SKY
have moved them to another (weaker) transponder.

This change is unlikely to have affected anyone in the UK, I don't know what
size dish in Cyprus or the like will now be needed.

FYI
Y.


Nothing to do with sky, the BBC moved them to 2D.

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Adrian

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:06 GMT, (Zero
Tolerance) wrote:

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:33:50 -0000, "Y Dangle"
wrote:

I have just lost BBC News ch 503 and BBC Parliament ch 504. I suppose SKY
have moved them to another (weaker) transponder.

Nothing to do with Sky whatosever. The BBC have moved them to another
transponder - and started using a non-standard symbol rate, to boot,
just to squeeze a few extra bits out of the deal.

There is nothing "non-standard" about 22000, it is widely used.

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:34:23 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

There is nothing "non-standard" about 22000, it is widely used.

Oops, my mistake, I was referring to the change on one of the other
BBC transponders (from the standard 22000 to a non-standard 23000) but
that's obiviously not the transponder involved in this particular move
so do please pardon the interruption.

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:14:02 GMT, (Zero
Tolerance) wrote:

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:34:23 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

There is nothing "non-standard" about 22000, it is widely used.

Oops, my mistake, I was referring to the change on one of the other
BBC transponders (from the standard 22000 to a non-standard 23000)

So it is (10847MHz) - does that mean that $ky Dodgyboxes have been
suitably reprogrammed or weren't the HD boxes as crippled WRT symbol
rates as the SD boxes ?

but
that's obiviously not the transponder involved in this particular move
so do please pardon the interruption.

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:20:28 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

So it is (10847MHz) - does that mean that $ky Dodgyboxes have been
suitably reprogrammed or weren't the HD boxes as crippled WRT symbol
rates as the SD boxes ?

EPG-listed channels can use whatever crazy symbol rates they want, so
long as the data is correctly signposted in the NAT/PAT/PSI or
whatever the hell it's called. But a non-standard symbol rate will put
a transponder out of reach of the uber-simplified "Add Channels" menu.


Which may be, of course, exactly what some free-to-air broadcasters
want.
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