Optus D2 (Freeview Satellite) Failure - Replacement Plan ?

With all the Talk about Optus D2 Now Failing.

What's the Contingency Plan for Freeview on the Satellite Platform ?

Reports are that Sky are Busy Readying a Changeover to Optus D3/D10.

Be Good to hear what the Grand Plan is for Freeview.

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Permalink Reply by Iggy on Wednesday

I find it quite odd that Australia knew that d2 was not usable early 2022. And moved all their channels
Yet New Zealand seams to be getting shafted again. Like normal.

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Permalink Reply by Ren on Wednesday

It was probably more a Kneejerk reaction from Optus to Relocate services from D2 and then Move D2 over to 160deg where D1 was Failing... Otherwise if they hadn't performed the Changeover then the Country would effectively had a Total Blackout of Sky and Freeview when D1 Failed.

Optus then would have been totally in the Shit...

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Permalink Reply by Gary Jones 4 hours ago

Yes this could be bad news for those customers in such locations that rely solely on satellite to get Freeview and not having a LNB that would see D3. such as our place at Whangamata, I recently only found out about this via the Geekzone forum.

Pretty sure my current oval Sky LNB will get D3 with its 10750LNB but beach one is 11300 from memory so most likely won't. other option is to go to a bigger 90cm dish

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Permalink Reply by Ren 26 minutes ago

Hi Gary.

If your current LNB is an Oval/Elliptical one and it's been Correctly aligned to both Satellites - Then you'll be fine. 10750/11300 Mhz doesn't really come into it. It's the 22Khz Tone that does the switching of LNB's which is driven from the Receiver.(Which Sky have automatically configured into their Boxes)

For Freeview boxes you would need to configure a New Satellite I.e Optus D3 using the same details used for D1/D2 but with 22Khz Switch ON...

Cheers:

Gary Jones said:

Yes this could be bad news for those customers in such locations that rely solely on satellite to get Freeview and not having a LNB that would see D3. such as our place at Whangamata, I recently only found out about this via the Geekzone forum.

Pretty sure my current oval Sky LNB will get D3 with its 10750LNB but beach one is 11300 from memory so most likely won't. other option is to go to a bigger 90cm dish