If you have a full power HD CW station in your market, you should get CW in HD by the end of next year when Dish has to have all the HD local channels. Note it is stand alone channels, not subchannels.
Echostar 16 Launch - November 20 2012
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If you have a full power HD CW station in your market, you should get CW in HD by the end of next year when Dish has to have all the HD local channels. Note it is stand alone channels, not subchannels.
If you have a full power HD CW station in your market, you should get CW in HD by the end of next year when Dish has to have all the HD local channels. Note it is stand alone channels, not subchannels.
Does Dish have to have HD in all local markets or just all the HD in the markets in which Dish provides HD?
Does Dish have to have HD in all local markets or just all the HD in the markets in which Dish provides HD?
DBS has to have all full power HD channels in a market where they carry any station in HD by the end of 2013.
Echostar 16 was still 10 km below GEO at the last measurement (early am, Dec 1, Universal Time).
Are they having trouble getting it up? Sounds like a personal problem, but I can't speak from experience.
It's been one month of testing for past Echostar/Dish sats, but it can be a week or two more or even a week LESS in one instance a few years ago. One must also factor in the time it takes to move the sat from the testing slot to the assigned operations slot. So, about a month or so if tests go well.
Most likely they are in the process testing. Latest TLE has it at 67.05, close to the planned testing location. Dish generally does not talk much about testing.
The only news we might be apt to hear (assuming testing goes well) before they move it to 61.5 is if a SatGuys member happens to point a Dish at the bird with a spectrum analyzer and reports they can see test signals. Other than that, no news is good news until early January (as if there is no movement by then, there might be a problem)
Indeed, there is a Santa (for Dish that is).
The next proton/breeze launch was Dec 8 ( from the same launch pad). It had a 4th stage breeze anomaly which shut down 4 minutes early.
The satellite will be able to reach geo using satellite fuel but life will be shortened from 15 to 11 years.
This is two failures in one year. The last time, several top guys were fired so more heads will likely roll.
Defintely not good news for the International Launch Services sales dept.
The next proton/breeze launch was Dec 8 ( from the same launch pad). It had a 4th stage breeze anomaly which shut down 4 minutes early.
The satellite will be able to reach geo using satellite fuel but life will be shortened from 15 to 11 years.
This is two failures in one year. The last time, several top guys were fired so more heads will likely roll.
Defintely not good news for the International Launch Services sales dept.
Does Echostar or any Dish partners have any launches scheduled for 2013?
It doesn't appear so based on the schedules online. (I'm always ready for more HD capacity.)
http://www.flysat.com/launches2013.php
http://www.tracksat.com/launches.asp?vt=2013
It doesn't appear so based on the schedules online. (I'm always ready for more HD capacity.)
http://www.flysat.com/launches2013.php
http://www.tracksat.com/launches.asp?vt=2013
The Russians are really having a string of bad news. The rapid departure of the ILS boss apparently has to do with a corruption scandal in their American ILS operation.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/virginia/vaedce/1:2012cv01140/287043/
Wonder if the Pegasus referred to is the same one that "shops" the FCC filing system for orbital rights?
EchoStar 16 expected to complete transfer for all 61.5W service sometime in last half of January. -- from EchoStar 15 filing--- "EchoStar currently expects EchoStar 16 to
arrive at the nominal 61.5° W.L. orbital location sometime in late December or early January.
Once there, EchoStar will work to transfer traffic from EchoStar 15 to EchoStar 16 without
interruption to service to DISH network customers. Once all traffic is transferred, which
EchoStar anticipates will be sometime in the latter half of January, EchoStar expects to move
EchoStar 15 to 44.9º W.L."
arrive at the nominal 61.5° W.L. orbital location sometime in late December or early January.
Once there, EchoStar will work to transfer traffic from EchoStar 15 to EchoStar 16 without
interruption to service to DISH network customers. Once all traffic is transferred, which
EchoStar anticipates will be sometime in the latter half of January, EchoStar expects to move
EchoStar 15 to 44.9º W.L."
