I think it is pretty obvious that the two satellites that Charlie Ergen talked about are the E-11 and the AMC-14 satellites. I do not believe that an authorized slot has been aplied for/determined for E-11 and the 105.5 W tweener slot is the only one that SES Americom has applied for with AMC-14. I do not believe the FCC has made any rules for the regular DBS tweener slots but they did recently release the licensing and servicing rules for the "Reverse DBS Frequencies". I have to believe that Dish is counting on receiving licenses for some of these Reverse DBS slots for these two satellites. The ruling can be found here in Word and Acrobat respectively:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-76A1.doc
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-76A1.pdf
Of interest in this rulings are the available slots which start at 43 W and increase by 4 degrees up to 179 W. The other point of interest is that it appears that FCC will award the slots on a first come/first serve basis and consider the applications already on file. The ruling lists those applications already on file but most do not correspond to the available slots. Dish has applications for the following slots:
61.9, 67, 77.2, 86.3, 110, 114.5, 119, 124, 128.6 and 147.6 W
Of these, only the 67 W and 119 W correspond to available slots but this does not mean the FCC would not consider modified applications. As a side note DirecTV has applications for the following slots:
96.5, 99, 101, 103 and 105.5 with 99 and 103 W corresponding to available slots.
Now if Dish's plan is to use these "Reverse DBS Frequencies" I would think that both E-11 and AMC-14 would need to be modified for these frequencies. It has been reported previously that AMC-14 was already being modified with some steerable capability. Now this all speculation on my part, perhaps Scott G. can tell us if I am way off or not.
