Service Restored to 129 Satellite!

[goaliebob99]

Geesh Bob you work in this industry.. Redundant uplinks have nothing to do when there is an issue with the satellite itself, which is the issue we have here.

In addition this satellite is not owned and operated by Echostar / DISH Network, it is leased from SES Americom. DISH is basiclly waiting for SES to get control of the bird, fully check out the bird and before they can reload the satellite back up.

Yes but if there is issues sending commands due to rain at one site they should be able to send commands to another uplink site where there is no rain at that bird!

Or have some sort of fiber link to allow such commands to another location! What happens if that uplink was disabled for some reason! What I'm saying that is that commands should be abled to be issued to any bird from any uplink to keep control of the fleet!

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[midmomc]

Hummm... wonder how many free PPV movie coupons this outage will be worth?

 

[chicagonettech]

I dont believe this is true, I have been told by a number of sources who wish to be unnamed that there has been no damage to the satellite.

And the banks said they did nothing to create the last crash either!

 

[Jim5506]

This is a weird coincidence. I had a live chat on Dish site this morning to have a dish installed on the house I'm moving to. A little later I noticed my locals were gone. I spent a half hour online to try to do a live chat again to see if they goofed up my account some how and deleted my locals. Their web site is so jammed it takes forever to load. A message finally popped up on the live chat window saying HD channels are down and they are aware of the problem. Then I came here and found this thread. Why didn't I just come here in the first place? I'm stoooopid!

You are not stupid - just a slow learner.

 

[3HaloODST]

Maybe that explains why I have not MLB Network, it is not in the guide anymore.

It's here in SD on my receiver... Have you checked out the steps in the first post?

 

[eddie willers]

I'm stoooopid!

Don't feel bad.....some guy is on his roof checking all his fittings. He's stoooopidur.

 

[cincyguy2k4]

I remember one time I was working at a rather large unnamed company where there was a massive data center outage once.

There was a big red button surrounded by a plastic case right next to the exit door. Once there was a contractor who was repairing a system and on his way out accidentally lifted the plastic cover and hit the button. Needless to say the red button was the emergency power down switch.

Took hours to get the data center back onlne.

His excuse was that at other data centers he had to hit the button to exit the door.

Maybe Dish hired the same repairman

 

[John Kotches]

Someone earlier mentioned gyros and just about everyone missed the preface of

WAG, wild a$$ guess.

cheers,

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[sjvirchow]

My receiver was set to record something on a local channel, the guide says it's recording, but there's no light on the front of the DVR that says it's actually recording. I wonder if it's related to all this.

 

[newzjunkie]

Thanks for the info

just found you guys after experiencing signal loss most of the afternoon. been trying to contact Dish but no luck. Thanks for the info. Wish Dish was as proactive in alerting customers as you guys are. I'll be checking back here first before going to Dish.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Someone earlier mentioned gyros and just about everyone missed the preface of

WAG, wild a$$ guess.

Oh I thought WAG was the dog.

 

[3HaloODST]

My receiver was set to record something on a local channel, the guide says it's recording, but there's no light on the front of the DVR that says it's actually recording. I wonder if it's related to all this.

If that local was on 129.... Yep.

 

[VegasVoomer]

Stooopidur
I used to do that too. I won't go that far anymore. My wife forbids me to go up there.
And to Pinchhitter, I'm watching Cleveland at Texas right now so that SD channel is ok.

 

[Mokanic]

Station keeping in geostationary orbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping

".....The eccentricity (i.e. the eccentricity vector) is perturbed by the solar radiation pressure......."

So that is the key. If I had solar radiation pressure I would be eccentric AND EXTREEEEMELY perturbed!

NO HD FOR YOU!!!!!

 

[whitewolf8214]

Maybe that explains why I have not MLB Network, it is not in the guide anymore.

you should get it in sd only i have it in sd only on channel 153

 

[whitewolf8214]

Oh I thought WAG was the dog.

lmaooooooo

 

[John Kotches]

k9sat/bob:

Command and control is probably a relatively low bandwidth requirement.Let's not confuse that with the other c, content. That's much higher bandwidth.

While redundant uplink ability would be nice, we don't know what the problem is with the sat. We also don't know how much slower it is/was because of the rain. If it's 10 or 20 percent, it may not be worth the cost for the perceived benefit.

Sadly, fiber runs aren't cheap and very few have a blank check book.



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[ESPNSTI]

I am hearing some good news including that they are now going through some procedural checklists checking out the new satellite before putting the new satellite back in production.

They were able to spawn a completely new satellite?

 

[Frank Jr.]

It does sound like a satellite alignment issue, although there is no information regarding this....

 

[3HaloODST]

They were able to spawn a completely new satellite?

Was wondering as well...