Name that Spotbeam?

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Can you identify this spotbeam?
 

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From the orientation of the oval, I was going to say it's a spotbeam from Ciel 2. But you already did those spotbeam maps, and I don't see any that look anything like that.

My fallback position is 119 Echostar 7. I don't think this spotbeam is active, or something appropriate would be listed in TheList. Therefore, I don't know how to number it. There's a South California beam, so I would call it a Northern California Beam for want of a better name or number.
 
From the orientation of the oval, I was going to say it's a spotbeam from Ciel 2. But you already did those spotbeam maps, and I don't see any that look anything like that.

My fallback position is 119 Echostar 7. I don't think this spotbeam is active, or something appropriate would be listed in TheList. Therefore, I don't know how to number it. There's a South California beam, so I would call it a Northern California Beam for want of a better name or number.

Right on.

Echostar 7 119W Spotbeam S04 centered on San Francisco.

Getting this data was like the closing scene from " Raiders of the Lost Arc" where the box is buried in some government document warehouse. Just about 9 years since it last saw light.
 
Not sure from which

From the orientation of the oval, I was going to say it's a spotbeam from Ciel 2. But you already did those spotbeam maps, and I don't see any that look anything like that.

My fallback position is 119 Echostar 7. I don't think this spotbeam is active, or something appropriate would be listed in TheList. Therefore, I don't know how to number it. There's a South California beam, so I would call it a Northern California Beam for want of a better name or number.

It is a Nor Cal beam centered near the Redding, CA. area. It looks like Lake Shasta just W of the center.
 
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Getting this data was like the closing scene from " Raiders of the Lost Arc" where the box is buried in some government document warehouse. Just about 9 years since it last saw light.
How did you dig it out? FOIA request?
 
Where can I find the Washington DC 61.5 spot beam in such a nice graphic like this one?

E12 at 61.5W was just like E7. I recovered the two of them at the same time. Nine years buried in the archives

E12 was originally licensed as Rainbow 1. The attached WashingonDC thumbnail is from the Rainbow filings. I do not know what transponders are currently on the beam or its present size (power level), only that this is the footprint registered for the beam and that there have been no affecting modifications since issuance of the original license

Digiblur is hard at work trying to correlate what Dish/Echostar is presently doing as compared to the tech details filed with the license so he can tie the beams to the transponders. He tells me it is very complicated and will take some time to figure out. I spent hundreds of manhours developing the Echostar footprint database in kml format. That was a one time effort. I suspect he will spend many many hours before he figures it all out while the "The List" continues to continously change.

Satbeams has made the conversion to Google Map format for those that like dbw data.
 

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