In case you are wondering what happened to HITN ....

[BFG]

A bunch of pr0n.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah it looked like a few of the Playboy Digital Tiers were there. No word on how that affected Dish Network other then a forigen channel being misplaced.

Although I did get a PM this morning asking me where the porn channel The Hot Zone went. Since I don't subscribe to those channels I couldn't give them an answer.

 

[offpiste]

"Also wasn't Starband using that Satellite as well?"
Yes.
I think Starband got hit bad. CS told me that 1/2 or 20,000 subs are down when I called to see why my sat modem had only 2 lights on.
Looks like I'll be on dial-up for awile.

 

[chaddux]

"There were no station-keeping maneuvers being done at the time, Maloy said. IA-7 was located at 129 degrees West longitude."

Does that mean it has fallen out of geosynchronous orbit?

It was at 129W but is now somewhere near...that fishing boat south of Hawaii.

 

[chaddux]

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[mattb]

If I remebered didnt the pron that was on the last bird to die move to 129? I thought I remebered seeing TEN and some of the Hot Zone stuff listed as on 129 after the other bird went south.

Wasnt there also a Mux of Christian stuff on 129? I cant remeber. Lyngsat is good at removing stuff as soon as they disapear

Starband looks to be affected hard, they will need to buy space on another bird and repoint a lot of dishes! OUCH! and those all gotta be done "professionally" so a lot of OT for Starband installers.

At least we know someone at E*'s uplink center works on the thanksgiving weekend as they moved the receiver for HITN to the other bird

 

[wobbie]

Sounds like the Nebraska lottery wqas using that satellite also. Nobody can buy a lottery ticket in Nebraska as they lost the satellite LOL. And to think, the jackpot is 112 mill. Think about all the poor lotto players