so what are they doing with Rainbow-1? there hasn't been really any news on that one? just putting locals on it?
What is the final destination for this bird?goaliebob99 said:We have Aquisition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Echo 10 is now ready to go to 138 and for testing![]()
datwell said:Well, I know just what the SHOULD be doing with R-1 - Putting my Washington, DC HD locals on it, that's what!
$200,000,000 is one-fifth of a Billion dollars and Charlie isn't doing much with it. This is hard to understand. Who knows, maybe E-10 will just sit there forever too!
--Doug
There are some DMA's who's LIL comes off 121..Albany ,NY is an example..rolodoc said:Are there plans to move international channels out of 121? That would eliminate the need for superdish 121.
What makes you think any federal agency is in the least bit interested in efficiency?dlsnyder said:Couldn't E* and D* share those TPs using spotbeams as long as they were serving different markets? You would think the FCC would go for that since it would make for more efficient use of the spectrum.
Tom Bombadil said:I imagine they will be able to eat up a lot of RB-1 with east coast HD locals and mirroring the HD channels from 129.
I still think this is a hokey solution for the east coast, forcing all east coast HD customers into a two-dish solution. Too bad they can't put this stuff at 101 and then market an east coast version of the D1000 for 101/110/119.
dishcomm said:What is the final destination for this bird?
Derwin0 said:So who's going to swing a dish over to 138 now![]()
VAguyinAR said:the photo of the E10 launce can be found here:
http://www.sea-launch.com/mission_echostar-x/gallery/es-x-launch-tall.html
What does that have to do with the subject of this thread?digiblur said:Look at the title of this webpage![]()
halsan40 said:What does that have to do with the subject of this thread?
dishcomm said:What makes you think any federal agency is in the least bit interested in efficiency?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think digiblur was referring to Sea Launch's title of the Echostar X Launch page. Here's the snippet of HTML code: "<TITLE>Sea Launch - DIRECTV 7S Launch</TITLE>"halsan40 said:What does that have to do with the subject of this thread?
<META NAME="DC.title" CONTENT="Sea Launch Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1 Launch">
<META NAME="DC.subject" CONTENT="Sea Launch Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1 Launch">
<META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="Sea Launch Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1 Launch page">
<META NAME="DC.creator" CONTENT="Sea Launch">
<META NAME="DC.publisher" CONTENT="2214-Don Holt">
<META NAME="DC.date" CONTENT="2004-01-10">
dlsnyder said:That was one of the things the FCC strongly hinted at when the Dish/DirecTV merger was denied awhile back. They said that they would like to see the two cooperate on bringing local channels to every DMA in the country. The MOST efficient way to do it would have been a shared platform, each system using the same satellites for delivery to all DBS customers. Since that isn't going to happen, a system of sharing spotbeam utilization from one or two DBS slots might be the next best alternative. Maybe designate 110 as a national LIL delivery slot.
Just a thought.