Possible interference from an adjacent satellite to Astra 28.2ºEast (on the Costa Blanca)

New added Frequencies to an adjacent satellite with power levels of 50 watts approx. that
may cause interuption to low power  transponders on Astra 28.2º East which are approximately 10 Watts ( the power level on the Costa Blanca).
Because of the difference in power levels the weaker frequencies could get swamped.

This satellite is only  2.2º  away from Astra.

(1) 26.0°E  Badr 4 10714.00 H, is approx. 50 watts
Occasional Feeds, data or inactive frequency
This is the same frequency  as Channel 4, Film 4 etc
The same applies to the following frequencies
(2) 26.0°E  Badr 5 10729.00 V 
Occasional Feeds, data or inactive frequency
This is the same frequency as Channel 4 +1, More 4, E4 etc.
(3) 26.0°E  Badr 4 10906.00 V
Occasional Feeds, data or inactive frequency 
This is the same frequency as ITV3, ITV 3+1, STV, UTV, ITV 1+1 etc

If this causes problems with the above TV channels there may be " picture pixilation" and tempoaray loss,  nothing can be done  to improve the problem.

Cable TV Decoders Set up instructions

Set up instructions for the Cable TV decoders we have supplied in the past 3 years.

Humax Fox CII Cable TV decoder

link       http://connectcom.tv/humax.pdf


CityCom CCR 582 Cable TV decoder

 link      http://connectcom.tv/CityComCCR582.pdf

IPOWNER WAV 1200-C Cable TV Decoder

 link      http://connectcom.tv/IpownerSetup.pdf

Delta Telecom Cable  TV Cable decoder

link      http://connectcom.tv/DeltaTelecomSetup.pdf

Kathrein UFC 662sw Cable TV HDMI/Upscaler decoder

link      http://connectcom.tv/Kathrein%20UFC%20662_%20Setup.pdf

New Cable TV Receiver with Upscaling to HD quality and HDMI output

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New HDMI  Cable TV Set top Box with upscaling to 576p, 720p and 1080p
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The receiver is available in black.
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loss of TV signal at around 11.30 am each day for approx 15- 30 minutes

Possible loss of TV signal at around 11.30 am each day reference TV signals on the Costa Blanca from Astra 28.2ºE

Possible cause Autumnal Equinox

We have tested the dishes and at 11.30 am the sun is directly behind the LNB  and causes a shadow to be projected to the "centre" of the dish, this will support the theory below as the LNB will amplify any electromagetic noise that is concentrated on the centre of the dish and cause the LNB to produce a signal that crash it's output, hence signal loss (outage). The LNBs used on the Costa Blanca are high gain, usually coupled to large high gain Satellite dishes  1.8m, 2.4m and 3.1m. Even then the average signal is only 10 watts as opposed to 50 watts in the UK, these signals are vulnerable to any interference.

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. These Satellite dishes (earth stations) at around noon every day will be in a straight line between the Sun and the Earth,  so  strong electromagnetic waves generated by the sun directly shine on the earth station (dish)antenna. 

 Scientific Quote
"The elevated temperature of the sun causes it to transmit a high-level electrical noise signal to receiving systems whenever it passes behind the satellite and comes within the beams of the receiver antennas. The increase in noise is so severe that a signal outage usually results. The length and number of the outages depends on the latitude of the earth station and the diameter of the antenna. A 3-metre antenna, the outages occur over 15 - 20 days, with a duration of  approx. 30 minutes."

BBC NEWS: BBC PARLIAMENT:BBC ALBA HAVE MOVED

BBC 24 Hour News has moved!
BBC News has moved to Astra 2D 10803.00 Horizontal Low  Symbol Rate 22000  FEC 5/6
BBC Parliament has moved to Astra 2D 10788.00 Vertical Low  Symbol Rate 22000  FEC 5/6
BBC Alba  has moved to Astra 2D 10818.00 Vertical Low  Symbol Rate 22000  FEC 5/6
BBC Radio Channels remain on Astra 2A 11954.00 Horizontal High  27500 2/3
For Clients on our Cable TV system if they have BBC 1 and 2 Scotland in their TV schedule list they will be  able  pickup BBC News, those who aren't will have to lose BBC News, BBC Parliament, and BBC Alba, if BBC move the radio channels from the transponder as well then we may look at a retune but at present the Radio channels remain on the existing channel

TDT ( Spanish version of Freeview) going HD

There are more and more HD Television channels being added to the already busy channel listings.
To receive TDT HD you will need either
(1) An HD ready TV that has combined TDT ( Spanish version of Freeview)
or
(2) A HD Set Top Box and a HD ready TV.
If you are on a Community TV system then check with your President to find out if your TDT community TV system will actually process and feed HD TV into the cable TV network.
We regulary check the TV programs for Spanish TDT and find that more and more TV channels have English language as their second Audio track, this is because the original soundtrack was English, Often there are between 5 and 8 with English soundtracks.
Spain is heavily committed to providing HD TV and these are becoming the norm.

Change now.... contact us.

Another successful community TV installation

 Another successful community TV installation, 2 satellite dishes, 1 receiving Dutch TV channels and the other feeding English TV channels, all down 2 cables only ( Dutch on 1 cable and English the other cable) supplying TV signals to 6 x Apartment blocks in Lomas de Campoamor, an added bonus is that Spanish digital TV is available on both cables. All the resident has to do is select which cable they need in their apartment and connect  to either English/Spanish or Dutch/Spanish TV.
Another brilliant idea by ConnectCom.TV

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Additional channels for Spansih TDT Community Television.

Your system may or may not be able to receive and process the latest channels that are available on the Spanish Terrestrial system
If you want to check the channels for your area then follow this link below

www.televisiondigital.es/Terrestre/Cobertura/Paginas/Cobertura.aspx

and enter your Post Code ( Código Postal)
for residents who have a Post Code of 03319 the syems does not recognise it, the nearest is 03187 which is Los Montesinos)

These are the additional Tv channels now available (but check the above website first)

CARRASCOY Canal 55
Teledeporte
TVE HD

CARRASCOY Canal 42
La Sexta 2
La Sexta 3
La Sexta HD
Canal + Dos
Cuatro

CARRASCOY Canal 38
Boing
Telecinco HD
MTV
La 10

CARRASCOY Canal 44
Marca TV
13 TV
Nitro
Antena 3 HD

Most systems for Spanish Community Television use Head End processing equipment, this is capable of combining multiple antennas
balancing and adjusting variable input signal levels and launch the processed signals into the community TV cable network.
The basic system based on TV channels available in 2010 generally use the following multiplexed channels
58/61, 66, 67, 68, 69 this will usually get 25 - 30 realistic TV/Radio programs.
You will notice from the above list that now are available in some areas channels 38, 42, 44, 55, this will process 15 more realistic programs.
To get these the Head End will either need re-programming or more channel modules will need to be installed.
For those on community systems will need to contact their President who should then employ a qualified TV engineer.

Future TV via Broadband

TV by Broadband.... this Video streaming demo is being streamed to your PC via  media web servers, and  you should  see it without  pausing or stuttering. We are developing our own variable bitrate smooth streaming to satisfy the normally low Internet Speeds associated with the Costa Blanca, futher we intend to supply this media via a Internet connected Set Top Box or an internet connected TV.
Your favourite TV channels will be available, Live, Archived or VOD..... We will start trials soon

Spring ( March) and Autumn ( October) Equinox and Relationships with satellites (source Wikipedia)

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator
One effect of equinoctial periods is the temporary disruption of communications satellites. For all geostationary satellites, there are a few days/weeks around the equinox when the sun goes directly behind the satellite relative to Earth (i.e. within the beam-width of the groundstation antenna) for a short period each day. The Sun's immense power and broad radiation spectrum overload the Earth station's reception circuits with noise and, depending on antenna size and other factors, temporarily disrupt or degrade the circuit. The duration of those effects varies but can range from a few minutes to over an hour.
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In Laymans terms,  The immense radiation from the sun since it is directly behind the satellites during these periods, it is focussed  on the centre of our receiving dishes, this radiation is not just light frequencies but a mass of others and a lot within the frequency range of the LNBs of the satellite dish and is seen as electrical noise. This causes the LNB's to overload, causing loss of amplificaation of the genuine Satellite frequencies, hence derterioration of the already low signals for your TV system.
Whilst we are on the subject another reason for loss of quality signals here on the Costa Blanca.
Your system looks at several satellites at 28.2 º East called Astra, some are northern beams and some are southern. Most of the  Free to Air TV channels are on Astra 2D which is a northern beam and  has a very weak and scattered coverage on the Costa Blanca, some signals are less than 10 watts (hence the dish szes) in the UK these signals average 50 watts.
To get these signals  especially for single cable community system we need a very large dish, a 2.4m dish has an average
gain of  47 dB and the LNB  a gain of 50 dB. We need this high gain to try to get the low level signals.
However, there is a problem and that is... at 28,5 º East we have a another satellite called Eurobird 1 and this is a European beam. It has an  average output power of  50 watts which is 5 x the signal power of Astra 2D ( Costa Blanca).
It is not difficult to see that whilst we are trying to get las "last drop" of signal from Astra 2D, the signal from Eurobird 1 is    " over the top" for our high gain equipment causing the LNB to be saturated  and subsequent deterioration of the alraedy weak signals.
We have to remember that English TV  from Astra 2 D is intended for UK use only, that is why it is broadly focussed to Northern Europe and not Spain, due to late 90's technology ( that's when the Satellite was constructed) the beam is not tightly focussed and some of it's footpring covers parts of Spain albeit  much weaker. Loss of signal quality is something we all have to accept.

New business

ConnectCom have just been commissioned by another urbanisation for a communal TV system for English  expats and to combine with Spanish TDT plus Dutch TV  for residents. The system is to feed 6 x high rise apartment blocks on Lomas de Campoamor Orihuela Costa.

Future of TV

ConnectCom are looking at the way you will watch TV in the future.  By Broadband! This technology has been around for sometime now, but quality TV from the Web is dependent on your broadband speed. Acceptable bandwidth is tolerant only if you have one device connected to your ISP. What happens if you have more. PC and TV, then this starts off a new story.

We have looked into all the very latest technolgies of providing the end user with a constant dynamic feed to satisfy their demands.
Soon we will be launching a service that provides Live TV, Catch up TV, VoD ( Movies) and Archive TV, NOT to your PC but direct to your Internet connected TV.
Keeping your armchair viewing in tact. Look at our promo at
http://connectcom.tv/StreamInfo.html

TV for Communities.


36+ TV channels and 8 Radio Channels fed into the communities TV cable system to feed mutiple homes in apartment blocks, communities homes up to 300  properties and more, Example:. 100 homes connected equals 29.95€ for each property.    One off payment no monthly bills.
All TV channels are Free to Air and as selected by majority of Expats on our systems as their favourites.
Channels include BBC1, BBC1 HD, BBC2, ITV1, ITV1 HD, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, CITV Channel 4 +1, E4, More 4, Movies4 Men, True Movies, and much more.

The future for suppling multiple TV channels to urbanisations

ConnectCom are looking to the future for suppling multiple TV channels to urbanisations either by coaxial cable or telecom cable....

The New B-Nova Compact & Modular Headend Platform for Cable TV and IPTV networks.
Features a Fully modular platform from a compact ”headend in a box” to a multisite, distributed headend solution using the latest stream processing technology.

Capable of multi-tasking with different mixable TV formats, from Satellite (DVB-S) to Terrestrial TDT ( DVB-T) to transport in IPTV ( ISA) (Internet Protocol) via telecom lines to QAM via Coaxial lines.

This compact system as a single unit can accommodate up to 12 multiplex receivers with descrambling capability all in one chassis. A fully loaded single unit without descrambling increases the multiplex receiver count up to 24 in the chassis. This inceases the number of viewing channels dramatically from a single unit.

Fully contollable via software on site or remotely.

A Thankyou

In this business, you generally are only contacted when there is a system problem, it is nice to see that some say thanks for a job well done, this is a copy of an email we received recently from Lomas de Campoamor. Orihuela Costa.
"An owner telephoned today (13thJan) as he is going home at the weekend, to thank us for restoring the signals in the Vallesols the day after my visit to him. Well done.

I know you have to follow up on this job as per your recent email but he was very appreciative of our speedy response. Cheers, Tony C"