SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Discussion - Week Ending 09/29/2007

[GeorgeLV]

Should.... but it doesn't. Covers the majority of AZ except for the upper northwest corner.

Are Dish's spotbeams on 119 that much narrower than DirecTV's? I get all of the Ku beams for Southern California, Arizona, and Utah at 100 signal strength.

 

[tsduke]

It's not a channel technically... just another number pointed to the same exact video stream as the standard HD Theater channel.

Which makes that fact that it's still there even more confusing.

 

[digiblur]

Are Dish's spotbeams on 119 that much narrower than DirecTV's? I get all of the Ku beams for Southern California, Arizona, and Utah at 100 signal strength.

Yep.... much tighter beams. You'd be surprised how packed Echostar10 is.

 

[pdxsam]

They also do in Seattle but Dish doesn't. Down here in Portland Direct didn't have a couple of HD retrans for the longest time.

It's not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[digiblur]

They also do in Seattle but Dish doesn't. Down here in Portland Direct didn't have a couple of HD retrans for the longest time.

It's not out of the realm of possibility.

It's more than out of the realm, try out of the coverage area.

 

[digiblur]

I wonder if they are truely running at 8PSK 5/6 on that AZ 110W spotbeam. Could be a test of things to come on the national HD's once E11 is up and running. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that yield close to an additional 10 megabits of bandwidth on the TP?

 

[pdxsam]

It's more than out of the realm, try out of the coverage area.

Yeah, I saw that. I was just responding to the "not possible" comment on the retrans agreements.