Recent content by Tom Speer

As of this morning the last spotbeam at 101 (from D9S) has been shut down. TPN 20, carrying New York City, is now live on D16. RIP D9S.

This morning TPN 12 from 101 is a National beam, and the Minneapolis SD duplicate locals have been remapped to it from their Spot beam on TPN 20. That leaves only one spot beam transponder active on D9S, a beam using TPN 20, feeding New York City. That could easily be switched over to D16 at...

The TPN is empty, too. With an empty TID, there is no way to calculate the TPN.

No, actually if you use Excel or other OPENXL compatible spreadsheet program to look at the spreadsheet, the TID and PID are empty, not 0. That APG object is like one that showed up a couple of weeks ago in an Engineering test record. It is a new form of an APG binary object that we have...

As of last week, the only spot beams active were on TPNs 12 and 20. Although those transponders have not yet been shut down, tioday's guide data shows only the spot beams for New York and Minneapolis being used, on two transponders using the TPN 20 frequency. This morning I still see a signal on...

D9S, thy end is near. more to come in today's data.

The last spot beam on D9S using TPN 18 was shut down, and the SD duplicates for Chicago on TPN 18 were moved to a National trasnponder on D16 TPN 18. The only active spot beams on D9S today are on TPNs 12 and 20.

This morning DIRECTV removed the slate displays that replaced the SD duplicate locals for Baltimore, Birmingham, Houston, Seattle, and Washington.

I may have been affected by something else. Here is the whole scenario. On Sunday April 14th CBS broadcast a Billy Joel Concert. It was delayed by other live programming running long, then the prime time shows shifted later. I extended the recording time of Ttracker and the Billy Joel...

i encountered that last week. I tried to schedule a recording from my loacal station,wen I was outside my home DMA. I wanted to watch it when I got home. Didn't work.

Thursday morning. The spot beam on D9S TPN 28 was shut down overnight Wednesday and TPN 28 on D16 was activated.

DIRECTV did an overnight transfer of the Atlanta SD duplicates from a spot beam on D9S tpn 26 to a National beam on D16 tpn 26. So far they have shut down the spot beam transponders on D9S TPN 4 and TPN 26. TPN 18 has only one spot beam active (Chicago), and TPN 28 only has Los Angeles locals.

Agreed. They can't use the Ka transponders at 101, they are too close to 99 and 103. But D16 was designed to function at any of the DirecTV licensed locations. I've never seen anything about the total number of transponders it can power simultaneously (that I recall).

The HR24 software develpment has been frozen for years.

I prefer to deal from facts, not speculation. But while we are speculating, I had a less sinister thought in mind. D9S is only licensed until July 31 2024, when it is sceduled to go to disposal orbit. D16 is going to pick up those spotbeam frequencies as national transponders, we think. They...