Changes in Atlanta Spot Beams?

[tangential]

I live in the Atlanta Area and I also have a second home on the panhandle of Fla. Last August I put up a spare dish and I started carrying one of my units with me when we go down for an extended stay. Thru Thanksgiving (at least) I know I could receive most of the Atlanta stations.

I brought my receiver down with me on this trip and now all but one station complains about not being able to detect the spotbeam 20 on 110. Oddly enough, I can still get channel 8, the PBS station.

My question is, did something change, or has my dish just drifted enough to have lost them?

I am showing 85% strength on 110.

Thanks

 

[Pepper]

Atlanta used to be on CONUS when dish offered distant networks, now they are spotbeamed.

as for spotbeam 20, you're getting a different one in Florida than the one that covers Atlanta.

 

[lakebum431]

The only way you are going to be able to view the major ATL locals in FL is to check out the HD ones on 129 (with a VIP receiver).

 

[Pepper]

or sign up for the distant ones from www.mydistantnetworks.com, Atlanta and San Francisco are the ones they use.

 

[lakebum431]

or sign up for the distant ones from www.mydistantnetworks.com, Atlanta and San Francisco are the ones they use.

Correct, if you qualify.

 

[Buzzdar]

You can always use a white area address to qualify.

 

[TNGTony]

For the record, the Atlanta PBS is on a 119° spot beam with a much larger footprint than the Atlanta locals' 110° spot. This is because the Atlanta PBS station is used for all the Georgia local packages since GPT stations are nothing more than repeaters of the Atlanta station.

See ya
Tony