Recent content by alk3997

Same dropouts on ABC Family HD. Maybe uplink issues?

If you re-read the article closely, the PR-person was doing their job by making it sound like more was going on than really is. Translating - they said that currently they have no other ideas on how to shut it down. However, if they did come up with something there is an opportunity to use...

Try page 376 & 377 of: 2005ESASP.587..373J Page 377 (it's actually only 5-6 pages long but the page numbers are from the overall journal) I believe it was Insat IIB. Andy

I thought Elvis was on Mars eating rovers? When did he move?

Yes, the idea was that 300km above geostationary orbit would be a perfect place to park satellites. From what I've read recently, the reason for the 300km was that this was high enough that pressure from the solar wind and gravitational forces (lunar probably) were not enough to ever push these...

Good explanation. I was trying to wrap my head around taking an object already in a high orbit around one body and then accellerating it to escape the first body (Earth) but then being caught by the second one (the Sun) but wanting to go into a shorter period orbit around that second body...

That's alright - part of going out to a forum is to learn. It is why I'm here. As far as Virgin Galactic is concerned, remember they only go to Mach 3 (suborbital). To reach low Earth orbit, you have to hit the equivalent of Mach 25. I say equivalent since there is really no Mach number...

Not to shoot down (pun intended) another idea, but here is the way the orbital mechanics work. You can't change the laws of physics... If you add energy to the satellites orbit (in other words, increase its orbital speed relative to the Earth), the satellite will gain altitude but still be in...

No issurance. Intelsat only insures for the first year of ops (as well as launch and on-orbit check-out). Insurance ain't cheap for satellites. Google the "Space News" story on Galaxy 15 for more information.

Almost always solved by a hard reboot (hold down power button *on the unit* for greater than 5 seconds until "reboot" appears on the unit's one line display. Andy

Got the same email - the Premium + arrives today (UPS willing)...

When you go into the System menu and select "Storage", does your drive show up still? If so, does it have more than one partition? I assume at some point it showed up since you said you let the AZBox format it. If it is showing up in the System --> Storage menu, then go to a program and hit...

Have you tried a hard boot of the AZBox? This always worked for me on the Premium when the hard drive wasn't recognized. By hard boot, I mean hold the "Power" button on the unit (not on the remote) down for 5-6 seconds until you see "rebooting" on the unit's one line display. Any time I...

Thanks! I've been trying to convince myself it isn't heat related since most of the box runs very cool. However, I noticed that the S2 card runs warm, so I have to wonder if that is my source. Fortunately, I'm within the return window (less than 30 days) on the Premium. I say fortunately...

I have a Premium with a 1TB Hitachi HDD installed. If I leave the top cover off the AZBox, everything is good. When I put the top metal cover on the AZBox I start seeing a herringbone pattern in the component video output in about 5 minutes. These are parallel lines running through the video...