Dish to use all of NIMIQ 5!

[kstuart]

I know this has been asked before, but things may of changed with this new SAT and now with the chance of the Eastern Arch going all Trubo Coded 8PSK MPEG4 . . .

QUESTION:
Is there a Benefit to picking Eastern Arch over Western Arch for new customer installs.

I am on the Des Monies and Omaha Area. Looking at the up link charts our HD Locals are on both Western and Eastern right now.

Eastern is a little hard to get with some installs (like mine).
If I had a choice, does it matter now or will it matter next year or never?

I would ask local dealers/installers, and ask more than one.

At the point where Dish needs more space for local HD channels (which they will need to add all local HD channels by 2013), they might remove the duplicates, and your local guys might have some insight over which would be moved.

Or, you could just install whatever is more convenient today, and count on Dish paying for a free install of the other arc if they removed the duplicates, and you lost your locals.

[digiblur]

I know this has been asked before, but things may of changed with this new SAT and now with the chance of the Eastern Arch going all Trubo Coded 8PSK MPEG4 . . .

Not a chance of .... but the service from Nimiq5 will be 8PSK since they will have the service to sustain that type of signal.

[Voyager6]

At the point where Dish needs more space for local HD channels (which they will need to add all local HD channels by 2013), they might remove the duplicates, and your local guys might have some insight over which would be moved.

The requirement is to have all local channels in all DMA's by 2013. They do not have to be in HD.

[TheKrell]

The requirement is to have all local channels in all DMA's by 2013. They do not have to be in HD.

Does that include subchannels?

[Miner]

Actually, they all do cooperate when they have common interests. A good example is how they have quietly cut some deals to consolidate the new 17 Ghz slots with various filings being dropped to allow some (but not all) consolidations.


17 Ghz Letter

Roger that.

I'm sure it is mutually beneficial to both companies. I could see DirectV paying for slots they weren't using just to keep Dish from using them, and vice versa. Kinda like keeping a really good 2nd string quarterback well paid so he doesn't go to another team.

Miner

[harshness]

In case anyone is so inclined,

NIMIQ 5
1 35873U 09050A 09261.60000000 -.00000087 00000-0 00000+0 0 35
2 35873 012.9660 295.1090 4548841 359.6390 088.0300 01.75731127 22

[nelson61]

Posted Epoch and apogee data in launch thread

[nelson61]

Bell out, Telesat in.

Upon the occurrence of certain events, the Bell Transponder Agreement shall terminate and the Telesat Transponder Agreement shall become effective


Dish/Echostar SEC Nimiq 5 Filing

[Jason Whiddon]

NICE!

[HDRoberts]

Dish/Echostar SEC Nimiq 5 Filing

"Upon the occurrence of certain events"

Hmm, I wonder if those events are DirecTV vacating 72.5. Otherwise, it sounds like Dish would get the other 16 immediately.