This might be related with your other post of freeing all the TP @ 77°W, the moves have a reason.......At the rate that Dish is removing standard-def locals from the 110 satellite and turning off those spot beams, I am assuming that Dish is anticipating the existing satellite there may fail sooner than originally expected. They already had a partial failure at 110 years ago, that forced Dish to shuffle many local markets around and even put some markets on CONUS until very recently. I also assume that Echostar 23 does not have spotbeams (or at least not properly configured for US local markets) since it was originally intended for Brazilian service at the 45 slot.
My guess is that the moves at 77 are to give Dish more bandwidth to use for their Dish Mexico service. So, while there is a reason, it is not necessarily something that will help Dish subscribers in the US.This might be related with your other post of freeing all the TP @ 77°W, the moves have a reason.......
Last I knew, there are TWO co-located sats at 110: one sate is an all Spotbeam sat that provides tremendous capacity for LIL. The other is primarily for ConUS, although I imagine (don't really know until I look it up) the ConUS also has some spotbeams to provide limited backup to the all spotbeam LIL. It seems that Echo 23 could be used as a satellite backhaul for Dish's 5G network, so this may be more than just about Dish satellite TV service. Echo 23 might play a part in Dish's wireless plans.
This makes sense. I know for sure that Echostar X has spotbeams. When that satellite launched is when Dish started making a push to get as many markets as possible that had previously required a Super Dish (121) over to the 110 slot instead. It also helped with markets that had previously required a two-dish solution (with some minor local channels at the 61.5 slot) by getting all of those markets' channels consolidated at 110. With an expected end of life for Echostar X approaching shortly, it makes sense that Dish would want to eliminate the use of the spotbeams on that satellite for standard-def locals as quickly as possible.Echostar X (SSL / A2100AXS/ 42 Ku Band) was launched on Feb, 15, 2006 life span of 16 Years (2022)
Echostar XI (SSL / 1300 / 32 Ku Band) was launched on July 16, 2008 life span of 16 Years (2024)
It could be on of these birds is beginning to loose power, like a Bulb starting to fade or not propagating with the same intensity when it was new...they're preventing that with time ahead
Thank you, will check tomorrow, I see the satellite is @ 67.9°W FCC has not granted permission to relocate to orbital slot 110°W?As I recall, there are two broad area beams on Echostar 23.
One is the South America beam designed to cover Brazil from 44W
The other is the North American Conus beam designed to cover the US from the various Echostar permitted longitudes.
Both are standard KU transmission .
The technical details for the US beam at 110W are in the FCC application
The tech data is in the GIMS (ITU - International Telecommunications Union) database attached to the application
File access is available only by using the GIMS program (a custom Microsoft Access program)
Download the GIMS program and load the database into GIMS and view the various dbw contours, or view, sort, etc the multitude of technical specifications.
Ignore any requests for passwords, user, etc. They are used in the data entry and ITU filing process
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