Eastern LIL on 129 - chances it will change?

[GTAE86]

I get my locals in SD from 129 - Charlottesville, VA. I asked the installers who did my move what the chances of them moving to EA are - they did not know. I have LOS issues with 129, never get better than 30 or 35 at my new house. Since it was technically a new installation, I had hoped to get EA, but that would not help locals anyway....

Does anyone know of plans to move WA east coast locals to EA? I do not care if it is SD or HD - I would gladly upgrade to HD (I have ViP 722) if our locals went to HD on 61.5....

 

[nelson61]

I get my locals in SD from 129 - Charlottesville, VA. I asked the installers who did my move what the chances of them moving to EA are - they did not know. I have LOS issues with 129, never get better than 30 or 35 at my new house. Since it was technically a new installation, I had hoped to get EA, but that would not help locals anyway....

Does anyone know of plans to move WA east coast locals to EA? I do not care if it is SD or HD - I would gladly upgrade to HD (I have ViP 722) if our locals went to HD on 61.5....

There will be a couple of new 129W spot beams that overlap in your area. The strongest one at Charlottesville ( if that is the one they use for you) looks like it will have about twice the signal strength of the present 129W signal level at your location.

 

[GTAE86]

That would be really good.

I am assuming that would be on the new Ceil-II?

It would still be nice if they changed us over to EA - 129 is murder for LOS on the east coast.