Dish Network/SES Americom was granted to moved AMC 16 to 118.75

[dlsnyder]

The vertical measurement (top to bottom) is the one that counts here. Anyone know how tall at Dish1000 is?

 

[dlsnyder]

I kind of feel sorry for Dish's International Channels customers. They seem to need new equipment of some kind every year or so.

 

[bhelms]

The way I read the report they will use the extra capacity for internationals. Is a standard LNBF capable of tuning in those frequencies though? Seems like a Dish 500 might be sufficient for this if the power is high enough.

As I read the footnotes, all the ka freqs are uplinks, unless that's a misprint...

 

[Stargazer]

Maybe it is not byebye SuperDish after all. They could use a SuperDish with a new lnbf adapter kit in order to pickup the channels. They would probably need to use the same size SuperDish that they have been using in order to pull in the FSS satellite. Maybe they will come out with a mesh dish (SuperDish 2) to pick this up.

 

[Bountykiller]

The invacom LNB's do both frequencies at once on one lnb. This would be the most likely thing to happen. People wont be expected to have two dishes pointed at 119 ;0 It would be FSS and DBS together @ 119, both owned by dish.

 

[Dave1997]

Now They Can Offer My Lil, Hd

 

[Stargazer]

I wonder if they would be able to pickup 119 and 121 FSS feeds from one SuperDish?

 

[dishcomm]

This is big news...

Wonder what they will do with all the extra space?

I was told in the past if this move was agreed to that you would get the 118.7 location with an existing Dish500 without the need for any repeaking. I wonder if this is true or not.

I noticed in the report that the bird in qeustion an FSS satellite..Is that not medium powered as are the FSS birds at 105 &121 degrees and as such would
require a larger antenna?.I did a search and couldn't find pertinent info..

 

[Stargazer]

If its FSS it will require a SuperDish sized dish.

 

[jcrandall]

I can see it now, here comes the Super-Dooper Dish!

 

[digiblur]

AMC 16 is very similiar to AMC 15 at 105.

 

[CJPC]

Wonder if you could get 110 118.75 119 121 and 129 all with one dish

However, hopefully this new dish (if the sat is even used heh) will be of decent size!

 

[Dave1997]

I'm hoping that they can offer more HD LIL

 

[Lucky]

I really would love to see Dish start to offer the RSN's in HD.

 

[roachxp]

Wonder if you could get 110 118.75 119 121 and 129 all with one dish

However, hopefully this new dish (if the sat is even used heh) will be of decent size!

What if E* is planning on moving 121 to 129 in the future? That would give E* 2 sats at each major location 61.5,110, 119, and 129. Just a guess

 

[chaddux]

What if E* is planning on moving 121 to 129 in the future? That would give E* 2 sats at each major location 61.5,110, 119, and 129. Just a guess

What good would that do? Echostar 9 is an FSS satellite. Why would they do away with a 121 SuperDISH to make a 129 SuperDISH? That doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

[mattb]

What good would that do? Echostar 9 is an FSS satellite. Why would they do away with a 121 SuperDISH to make a 129 SuperDISH? That doesn't make a lot of sense.

I dont see them doing that, they have other tenants on the CBAND side of Echostar 9... They wont be moving it out of 121.

 

[Dave1997]

Well they can do what DirecTV is doing to come out with a slim superdish. Go with 110, 118.5, 119 and 121. Cause not everyone gets 129 so the 129 cant be on the new superdish

 

[focusmold]

Ka AMC16

Did they receive approval for KA at 118.7? If so maybe they are planning to follow in D* footsteps with HD LIL on Ka band Just a thought

 

[digiblur]

Did they receive approval for KA at 118.7? If so maybe they are planning to follow in D* footsteps with HD LIL on Ka band Just a thought

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