Ciel 2 Tracking
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It'll get there when it gets there. Now, don't make your mom and me pull this satellite over and come back there young man!
Epoch: 12:00 AM Central Time 1/27
Perigee: 35,633.9 km
Apogee: 35,637.2 km
steady speed/altitude
Perigee: 35,633.9 km
Apogee: 35,637.2 km
steady speed/altitude
HD Locals
Anyone know if there going to move all the HD locals from 61.5 to Ciel 2. I'm in the Lansing Mi market and in the uplink activity reports i don't see the lansing HD locals being uploaded. 61.5 which has Lansing HD is not an opiton for me no LOS .Thanks
Anyone know if there going to move all the HD locals from 61.5 to Ciel 2. I'm in the Lansing Mi market and in the uplink activity reports i don't see the lansing HD locals being uploaded. 61.5 which has Lansing HD is not an opiton for me no LOS .Thanks
Good question. Are they going to mirrior local hd like they do nationals on these 2 sats.??
I doubt they will "move" the locals, but in many cases, mirroring is a good possibility.
Should prevent a lot of repoints and enable many markets to have the EA/WA option.
Should prevent a lot of repoints and enable many markets to have the EA/WA option.
Is spotbeam space (???) not an issue then? It seems like they'd be better off getting as many DMAs their locals as possible.
I figure they will mirror some large markets for the EA/WA option and then where ever they have idle spotbeam bandwidth they will mirror some others. It also depends on if it is cost effective if they have to send the HD locals to another uplink center.
On 61.5, TPs 17, 19, 21, and 23 con be turned on in spot mode. They have not been done so far due to broken TPs and power issues on Rainbow 1
After Nimiq 5 is operational this fall, E6 may go to 61.5 to help out. That may open up more space.
Echostar 14 at 119 and Quetzsat-1 at 77 are also in the works, which will have spots.
They also may wish to halt wing dish installs in EA markets until they are ready to transfer people to a 1000.4 instead.
This is the first time I have heard of any issues with the 61.5 although I have suspected it for awhile because some low signals I get from there on my HD channels. Is there another thread discussing this?
I don't know of a thread, but I have read there wirer some power failures. Shouldn't effect things that much, Dish just can't use it to it's full capacity.
I really, really hope this is a joke. Since when do peoples lives REALLY depend on television?
Jens Satre sent me a note that he put in a patch in that corrected the date error for 2009 TLE's (still some problems with Epochs from 2008 that he has yet to fix). It works fine on Ciel with all the drift rates, locations, oscillations, etc reporting correctly.
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I am happy that it is here now. Now let's get the programming switched to it asap to clear up all those issues with poor signals. Then maybe they will beginning adding additional HD channels. I do not understand why they don't give us a list of what to expect. At this point I don't see where it would give D* an advantage to know what E* is adding shortly. E* is missing the boat with its poor communication with its customer base.
All I know is that it will be a happy day when Speed Channel HD finally comes to Dish. Many here would agree that should be one of the first channels sent up to Ciel.
