GAME ON! Echostar XI successfully reaches Geo-synchronous Transfer orbit!
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Good to hear! However, the rest of us are getting cancer from this thing it's so powerful.
Ok, I'm in Hawaii but I don't see anything new. What am I missing? I have everything pack and HD
Confirmed that transfer from E8 to E11 dramatically reduced signal strength in Southern Baja (confirming published E11 footprint shifting north). Marginal to 0 signal on various transponders with 2.4M antennas.
fringe area ? Where do you live? E11 as was it's predecessor is a CONUS satellite..Our friends in AK and HI can receive sigs from E11 as well as 129 and 148...
i guess the E-8 footprint was more favorable to you.
Are you a Dish customer? Or FTA?
No, we in Alaska can't see 129. The Fairbanks locals are on 148. Maybe with ciel-2 going up soon we will be able to receive all the HD that is on it, whoever knows isn't talking.
ahh ok...I didn't know that AK couldn't see 129..thanks for the clarification. To the best of my knowledge, Ciel2 is spposed to relace the current 129 bird. That piece has some problem which prevents the satellite from operating at full power....
You haven't seen anything accurate about Ciel-2 then, because it is a Canadian satellite - which would make it senseless for it to be "CONUS".
Since it has to cover all of Canada and all of the United States, then it will surely get a decent signal in Alaska.
I thought I read that Dish has leased all of the transponders on ciel-2. If it's going to replace the present 129 sat then it will have to have at least the same number of transponders, configured either as spots or conus wouldn't it?
Some while back on the other site I saw a map of the foot print of ciel-2 and there was a strong lobe headed to Ak and one to Hi too. I can't find that map now. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, Soon.
Dish is using several CONUS transponders for SD and HD locals in various DMAs. When Ciel-2 is operational, several of those DMAs where the coverage doesn't overlap can use one spotbeam TP, so Ciel-2 will make more efficient use of the available transponders.
Maybe Dish will move from 2/3 FEC to 5/6 FEC on the HD channels coming off of 110.
That will give them another 10 Mbits of bandwidth.
That will give them another 10 Mbits of bandwidth.
