Uplink Activity for Wed. March 01 2006

[Juan]

yes

 

[Horsnuts]

Is Nashville local Hd on 129 also? I have 61.5, and haven't seen them.

 

[styxfix]

Is Nashville local Hd on 129 also? I have 61.5, and haven't seen them.

Yes. Nashville HD locals are on the 129 sat.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/bfg/dish-hd.htm

 

[BFG]

According to John, the excluded HD locals are now available!

 

[goaliebob99]

BFG I havent checked yet.. but I will look and see

 

[JohnH]

Only Gannett.

KUSA, KARE, WUSA and WXIA are available.

KRQE is LIN TV Corp. apparently.

KTVX is Clear Channel.

 

[BFG]

oh ok

so there are 2 still unavailable, shoot I cleared em out and now forget.

ok i got em alb cbs - krgqe and salt lake abc ktvx

 

[goaliebob99]

yep all except for two

 

[BFG]

Hey folks I did a little check on 129 and I wanted to make sure I have it right

The current Tps used are
tp 1 - mp4
tp 2 - mp4
tp 3 - hd
tp 4 - sd
tp 5 - mp4
tp 6 - empty
tp 7 - sd
tp 8 - hd
tp 9 - mp4
tp 10 - mp4
tp 11 - hd
tp 12 - mp4
tp 13 - (2 test channels)
tp 14 - sd
tp 15 - sd
tp 16 - sd
tp 17 - sd
tp 18 - sd
tp 19 - hd
tp 20 - sd
tp 21 - sd
tp 22 - empty
tp 23 - hd
tp 24 - mp4
tp 25 - empty
tp 26 - empty
tp 27 - mp4
tp 28 - empty
tp 29 - empty
tp 30 - hd
tp 31 - hd
tp 32 - empty


and assuming echo 5 can use all 32 tps that means dish still has 8 Tps to allocate correct?

 

[JohnH]

You should also list the ones which are SD locals.

 

[BFG]

ok I filled it in more complete.

 

[goaliebob99]

I think once when e10 arrives at its final location... we will see 129 gain a little bit more breathing room

 

[BFG]

61.5 use and allocation

Rainbow 1 uses 1-21 odd and 23,24, 13 Tps
Echo 3 has all the rest

1 - hd
2 - hd (echo 3)
3 - hd
4 - empty, assumed dead on (echo 3)
5 - mp4
6 - sd
7 - hd
8 - sd
9 - hd
10 - sd
11 - mp4
12 - sd
13 - sd (r1)
14 - sd
15 - hd
16 - sd
17 - hd
18 - sd
19 - hd
20 - sd
21 - mp4
22 - sd
23 - empty (r1)
24 - empty (r1)
25 - sky angel
26 - empty, assumed dead on (echo 3)
27 - sd
28 - empty, assumed dead on (echo 3)
29 - sd
30 - sd
31 - sd
32 - sky angel

So it looks like all that's left on R1 is the old STAs 23,24 and on dishes list of 50 citites, those still not launched that can't go on 129 are: Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Burlington, Buffalo, Providence (7 total)

and assuming dish uses the remaining 8Tps left on 129 for hd lil, that means another 20 from the list would go on E10 as well

 

[JohnH]

4,26 and 28 are thought to be dead on EchoStar 3.

 

[goaliebob99]

IF 4,26,28 are dead on echo 3 cant they use rainbow 1 for those? to fill the gaps? just a q

 

[BFG]

I think rainbow 1 was only built with 13 transponders because that's the most they'd be licensed to.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Rainbow 1 specs

From http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/rainbow-1.htm

Rainbow 1 is a high power Ku-band direct broadcasting satellite, which was ordered by Cablevision from Lockheed Martin, using the A2100AX bus. Cablevision remains very secretive about the details of this satellite. It will provide direct broadcast services across the continental United States (CONUS) from its final orbital location at 61.5° west longitude. The spacecraft features 24 MHz Ku-band high power transponders with a combination of 135 watt and 65 watt power amplifiers. The flexible design of the payload provides full interconnectivity to provide either all CONUS or all spot beam coverage through 22 individually programmable spot beams or a selectable mixture of both spot and CONUS coverage. The design life of the spacecraft is 18 years.

And from https://www.patrick.af.mil/heritage/ATLAS66.htm

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company built the RAINBOW-1 (Model A2100) spacecraft for Cablevision, a direct-to-home broadcast service company. The satellite carried 36 Ku-Band transponders and 26 individually programmable “spot beams.”

 

[RBBrittain]

Since both are owned by the same people, they can get by with KYW-TV

In recent years, they don't even have to be owned by the same people anymore. WMC-TV Memphis (now Raycom Media) was separated from WMC-AM/FM (now CBS Radio, fka Infinity) in 1998, but they still share the same grandfathered call letters from when Scripps-Howard (before 1993) and Ellis Communications (1993-98, kept WMC-AM/FM until 2002) owned all three stations. The W isn't grandfathered since Memphis is east of the Mississippi, though just barely.