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    Default Tuning Optus D1

    Hi, Just back from a camping trip, and I was able to aim and watch VAST, and also tuned D2 (DUNA TV, ESRITV, a bunch or religious channels, K-Mart Radio, etc).

    Then I tried D1, but no cigar.
    The sat meter didn’t have any profile for D1, so I made one with 3 transponders I found currently on Lyngsat:

    12456 H 22500 (Freeview)

    12470 H 47300 (ABC Queensland)

    12519 H 22500 (Sky New Zealand)

    Could anyone verify these are still correct?
    I have a 75cm dish, and not sure it’s big enough, and also not sure trees were in the way at the bearing for D1 either.
    Being sure of correct settings would be a good start for the next trip though.
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    As per Lyngsat:

    12456 H 22500 (Freeview) and 12519 H 22500 (Sky New Zealand) are both New Zealand beams only.
    You will not receive them in Australia. Assuming that's where you were camping.

    12470 H 47300 is working.
    Does your meter/decoder operate on this type of encoding?
    DVB-S2
    multistream
    stream 126 47300-3/4
    16APSK


    A 75cm dish will be way too small, as these signals are not intended for direct reception, but for terrestrial re-transmission sites.

    Having trees in a signal path will block/interfere with signals from any satellite.

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    Try 12412 h 7500 or 12538 v 36700 these are data transponders so you should get a signal reading but they wont load.Also 12418 h 4166
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    Hi, I was going by this page:
    but suppose I programmed in the wrong transponders.

    This isn’t something I’ll try from home.
    I have a Foxtel dish with dual LNB, and a socket in my room from where one of their boxes once was, so VAST works at home.

    At the time I was set up in Border Ranges National Park. There are gaps in tree canopy, which dictates the site that I choose.
    I watched Melbourne Cup from there years ago, and remember the specific site, so knew VAST would be ok.

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