Thread: 3/3/2011 1:16am - Uplink Activity Report - 69 changes

If they are trying to allow more space for HD on western arc by going to all 8PSK then does that mean that there are not as many channels on western arc as there are on eastern arc?

If you mean "capacity", then yes it does, plus or minus a few transponders. Eastern arc has more room because (1) even the SD is MPEG-4 and (2) most channels are already 8PSK.

Dish has 82 transponders available on Western Arc (minus 1 being leased out for distants at the moment). Eastern arc Dish technically has access to 96 transponders but:

1. 2 TPs on 61.5 do not belong to Dish, they are temporarily authorised to use them since there are no owners, the FCC is blocked from selling them because of current lawsuits
2. 32 of the TPs are on 77 which is very restricted in usage since it is mexican slot and if it points too far north it causes problems with Candian DBS. Most likely the slot will have to be US spot beams and Dish mexico service, no national US programming.

But, of course it depends on how many TPs are being used for spot beams verses CONUS. WA has more TPs available for CONUS, but EA is using 8PSK (allowing about 30% more capacity per TP) so it currently has more channel capacity.

28 MPEG4 SD channels + 12 audio channels seems like a pretty good sized load on a single transponder.

Hi I have a question.
They move for example channel 170 tp18 to 61.5

How come I only see the 170 of 119 tp16.

how can i change to get the one of 61.5 i get better reception of that one instead of the 119.

thanks