Here is the ME beam coverage for Amos 1.
AMOS-2 carries Eleven Ku-band transponders.
The ME beam coverage for Amos 2
Posted on 10/10/2007 8:39:56 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Israel is awash with speculation over the mysterious disappearance of satellite television signals, with everyone from the Russians to the United Nations accused of jamming the population's nightly entertainment. The television network is said to be "near collapse" after a month of electronic snowstorms and interference, rumoured to be variously caused by the radar of UN patrols, Russian spy ships or even Israel's military. The interference began on Sept 6, the day Israeli warplanes slipped past Syria's Russian-made air defence systems, and attacked a military target deep inside the country.
The Israeli government has maintained an almost total silence over the strike, which some foreign media reported as an attack on a possible nuclear installation.
Since then, desperate viewers of Desperate Housewives, frustrated followers of The Bold and the Beautiful, and other TV lovers have been bombarding the switchboard of the Israeli satellite broadcaster Yes, and have launched a 122 million shekel (£15 million) class action suit against the company for failing to deliver the goods.
In a nation surrounded by hostile neighbours and often fearful of attack, a number of theories have already been floated.
A senior Israeli defence official said that Israel believed that the source was a Dutch vessel serving with Unifil, a UN peacekeeping force deployed after the Hizbollah war in Lebanon last year.
A security official meanwhile told the Yediot Ahronot newspaper that Moscow was suspected of beaming signals to try to probe Israel's military electronic capability and as an expression of its anger at Israel for making Syria's Russian radar appear impotent.
The Russian defence ministry refused to comment.
The interruptions have led to cancelled subscriptions and forced Yes to seek to pacify its 500,000 subscribers with free films.
While the Netherlands had not accepted responsibility for the interference, Mark Regev, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, said technical experts were in contact with Unifil.
But in another Yediot Ahronot story, the paper's diplomatic correspondent quoted an unnamed government official as saying that the answer to the riddle could lie in Israel itself, with the emissions coming from military radar.
A little Electronic Warfare in practice here.
Yup. Interesting that it’s still happening though.
Obviously a live test for the real raid on Iran.
Wonder if TV signals in Tehran are being affected too...
They should consider themselves saved. If the broadcaster needs me to testify, I'm avaiable for a fee.
I wonder what satellite they use and who else uses the satellite.
Same phenomenom reported in Lebanon.
Just our UFO’s magnadrive needs a phase one diagnostic.
Carry on.
Here is my thought.
Each comm satellites services multiple clients (some telecommunications satellites have as many 40 tranceivers to handle scores of customers). What satellite is this network using? Who else uses it? Answers to these questions may help provide some clues.
Ah bet the UN is jamming their entertainment.
What a wonderfully entertaining article.
Strange...
That would put us back on red alert, damn.
The EA6B has been around for as long as I can remember. The Israelis are top-flight when it comes to electronics. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they were testing their new systems and mayhap experiencing a bit of accidental spillover effects.
Hopefully this event is causing the Israeli public to read more books. Or they may have a baby boom.
The DBS provider, Yes, uses two Israeli sats - Amos 1 and Amos 2. Here is some info on the sats:
AMOS 1 was the first Israeli communications satellite. Its development was based on experience from Ofeq reconnaissance satellites in association with DASA and Alcatel Espace. It was launched on May 16, 1996 from European Space Center in French Guiana.
It is in use for home TV services (DTH/DBS by the Yes company in Israel and by HBO and others in Europe. Space Communications LTD quickly succeeded in filling all transmission capacity of Amos 1 and accumulated additional requests. Therefore Space Communications LTD decided to broaden its activity and initiated Amos 2 creation, which is today in its full ownership.
AMOS 2 was launched on December 28, 2003 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan and it serves clients in three service regions: Middle East (including Israel), Europe and the east coast of USA. Transmission and communication services provided by this satellite include: direct distribution of TV and radio translations; TV and radio translations to communication centers; distribution of internet services, data tranmissions to communication networks.
Amos 1 and Amos 2 are placed in proximity to a create common location, which enables satellite users to increase user abilities without additional antennas.
You’re probably right. Still, I’d rather think of it as “We shut down your air defenses, while you jerk around with Desperate Housewives.”
BTTT
bump for publicity
There are a bunch of them. Too many. TV is typically X-Band and crowded. Blinding one with ECM is easy at ground level. Satellite Xmissins are -95 dBm at ground level. Cutting them off with a transmission of +60 dBm ECM on the ground or air for a long distance is easy. Something's boiling up over there.
They are into Ku band now? Didn’t know that. There are Ka and R ones that aren’t commercial. Not crowded yet.
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