Atlanta Moving to Spot Beam TONIGHT

[JohnH]

They are not moving HD.

 

[russ222]

??

you mean thier only gonna move the sd channels who wants them anyway ..i thought all the channels only want the 4 big ones in hd:

 

[lakebum431]

I see Denver being the last one to go (if ever). Let us all remember where E* is based.

 

[Mr Tony]

I see Denver being the last one to go (if ever). Let us all remember where E* is based.

also Denver has a HUGE DMA. parts of 3 states and parts of it cant get the rest of the locals

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/E10spots/e10t12.pdf

 

[lakebum431]

excellent point Ice. I didn't even think about that.

 

[JohnH]

Atlanta has moved to spotbeam, already.

 

[Mr Tony]

John
TP20?

 

[JohnH]

John
TP20?

Yep.

 

[ThomasRz]

Yep.

If Atlanta is going spot beam then how does NPS offer it nationwide?

 

[ThomasRz]

also Denver has a HUGE DMA. parts of 3 states and parts of it cant get the rest of the locals

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/E10spots/e10t12.pdf

Aren't spot beams scalable?

 

[Mr Tony]

If Atlanta is going spot beam then how does NPS offer it nationwide?

because NPS is using TP15 on 119 which is leased to them by Dish. TP15 is CONUS (on 119 only TP 1,3,5,7,9 are spotbeams)

Even when NPS uplinked SF & Atlanta those had nothing to do with the Dish channels (as people who had thm noted they originally looked like crap yet the Atlanta ones dish had were clean)

 

[Mr Tony]

Aren't spot beams scalable?

to a point but not that much. Part of the Wyoming area that is in the Denver DMA has 2 DMA"s in between

If you clicked on the PDF that showed the current Denver spotbeam.

 

[JohnH]

If Atlanta is going spot beam then how does NPS offer it nationwide?

Atlanta has already gone to spotbeam. Remember NPS is a separate company and has leased their own ConUS transponder (Tp 15 at 119w) for their service.

 

[J. Allen Head]

And the picture quality got a lot better on the Atlanta locals right after we lost distants - untill the switch to spotbeam now it's back to poor quality again