I am trying very hard not to get my hopes up for Tulsa HD Locals, but it sure seems like some people will get their locals.
SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Discussion - Week Ending 11/10/2007
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Yes..and no... maybe.
Does make you wonder about things. Where do the VOOM channels get uplinked from? Ever notice they have never combined other channels with the VOOM TP with just 3 channels? Makes you think they are uplinked from somewhere that doesn't have say Discovery, TLC, RSN's, etc.
I really like tha idea. One master uplink thread and one master uplink discussion thread.
I don't know if vBulletin supports this, but you might be able to do both things, if it is possible to create a virtual thread name that points to the actual thread. For example, create a sticky virtual thread named "This week's uplink activity". Point this virtual thread to the actual thread name "Uplink Activity for the week ending 11/10/2007". Next week, move the virtual thread's reference to the new uplink report thread. If you subscribe to the virtual thread, then you should always be looking at the current week's thread.
If you read the links provided, you'll see that the only thing they show is Echostar was requesting the FCC remove authorization for their Rapid City, SD earth station to communicate with some random satellite that got put on the authorization by accident. The NC and SC earth stations are part of the next listing on that page. They have nothing to do with Echostar or Rainbow-1. (sorry I quoted you, it was mike123s original post).
If you look up SES-MOD-20070801-01013, it has a copy of the letter from Echostar to the FCC requesting this.
In response to digi's question, I think all of Voom is uplinked from South Dakota, and that facility was inherited from Rainbow DBS.
Here is the entry that pertains to Echostar from that 16 page PDF:
Ugg you are right, false alarm. They did not permit new uplinks to R1. Well there goes a good theory when I needed one.
I agree with the AMC-14 in some cases... but one question keeps jumping out. They've had R1 for a while with these HD LiL's on them for a while now. What logistics prevented them from firing up R1 in spotbeam mode before this?
We just have to wait and see what they are trying to unfold here. I'm going to do some more digging and see what I can find in the tables this evening. Are there any FCC docs you can dig up about the spotbeams on this bird?
That listing wasn't in the most readable format, gotta love government publications
. I was fooled too until I went back and looked up the modification request # and saw that it was just some administrative housekeeping. As to why its taken them so long to use the spotbeams, we can only guess. Most likely it has to do with frequency reuse, which requires more uplink facilities. Also, since the coverage of 61.5 is so limited, I see them adding no more than 5-7 new HD LiL with the spots. They might have been waiting on construction of backhauls from the local channel POPs to the uplinks, retransmission agreements, etc, etc. Just some random thoughts. Not much more we can do since there is limited info about the satellite.
Indianapolis HD locals, please. Maybe they can finally follow through on that three-year old promise.
:Are your RSN's on 61.5 or 129? This would be a good determining factor for anyone curious if they could possibly get HD locals out of this change.
How about just add a link in the current Uplink Report to the previous Uplink Report thread and that will create a chain so you can keep going to the previous week's Uplink Report, week by week.
Other than that, maybe there could be a sub forum added, like the HD Discussion and Technical Discussion sub forums. This way, all the Uplink Reports and Discussion threads could all be shown. Though, I'm really not sure what else could be added to this sub forum.
The links to the previous threads would seem to work nicely though.
Just another idea to add along with those above.
Thanks -
The HD RSN for Cincinnati is on 129 and not on 61.5. Does this bode well for Cincy HD locals coming sometime soon?
Think about it. E* will probably add the HD LIL's (if that is E*'s plan) on 61.5 for those markets that are using 61.5. Mostly the Northeast and Southeast areas.
Exactly! No costly truck rolls to add a wing 61.5 dish since they already have one.
