Thread: Nimiq 4 strength

Originally Posted by carl066

I've been one of their subscribers for over two years. Their HD package is a bit thin but adequate for my needs. I had a minor problem with my DVR, but it was taken care of in rapid fashon. I highly recommend Star Choice, no matter which side of the border you live on.
Next year, Nimiq 5 is due to launch. I'm sure its pattern will be as tight as Nimiq 4's, so Bell reception in most of the US will be no more.

I thought Nimiq 5 was going to 72.7 and not to 91. Has this now been changed?

Nimiq 5 is going to 72. It's also half leased to Dish, so it won't have the same footprint as Nimiq 4.

-Mike

Originally Posted by scrooloose

Nimiq 5 is going to 72. It's also half leased to Dish, so it won't have the same footprint as Nimiq 4.

-Mike

Or you should word it as the transponders that dish leases will have a US footprint.

Can they do that?

-Mike

Here in Philadelphia I am missing tr 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16,17,20,21,24,25,28 and 32 -and yesterday 1,4,5,6,8,10,12, were missing. I have the 9200 PVR and the dish that was supplied in the package! I am missing TSN-HD 850 and CTV sports 851 among others. I am going to look at Star Choice and see if that's workable. It would be interesting to know how many Bell (paying) subscribers
that are in the U.S. will stop subscribing? And,yes I think the bird is tilted so Ca. gets a better signal-conserving power onboard the craft. I hope this info is useful to someone else. (p.s.) the signal dropped to average 43% from the previous 75% except tr 3 is 96%

Here in Sacramento 82 is gone(except for tp 2). Plus 91 was never completely avail., nothing on tp 4,8,10,12,18,22,24,26. Fun while it lasted. Will be canceling very soon.

Originally Posted by bluereef

It will be interesting to see how many US customers Bell actually had when people start to cancel there account. I estimated a guess about 8000 in the US which is equal to 5.3 milion per year of revenue.

I could be way off on the 8000....even if it was 4000 that still equal 2.6 mil per year of revenue lost to Star Choice

I'm sure there are way more than 8,000 Expressvu subs in the states. A friend of mine that works at Echostar said that 100,000+ has been said in front of him when it came to Expressvu subs they thought were in the US.

Who really knows though...

I'm sure he was referring to the hackers (those stealing the service) which likely explains the restricted foot print.

-Mike

As of 7:30 Central Time here in Nashville, I suddenly find I have some of the transponders back and can pull in some stations.

I have the regular dish and apart from TP 2 and 3, most of the strengths are around 47.

The transponders I can now see are
2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32

The channels that now come in are
800
802
806
812
813
821
829
839
850
853

Not certain what all this means, but worth while waiting around a little and seeing if they change it back to nothing or bring the other transponders into a US footprint.