"Moving" to New Orleans

tcass

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I'm in Jackson, Miss.-area and want to "move" to New Orleans. can anyone tell me if the spot beam for New Orleans' stations will reach that far north?
 
What does that mean? I thought you could move anywhere, like if I decided to move to Washington DC, as long as I could see the satellite that provides their HD locals it would work.
 
No. 1: New Orleans' HD stationsd aren't yet up.
No. 2: New Orleans' locals are on spot beam.
No. 3: Not sure if the HD locals, once up on satellite, are on spot beam.
No. 4. So if they are -- and until the HDs go up -- I'm wondering if the local spot beam reaches Jackson, Miss., area.
 
Ooh, so a spot beam isn't coming from a E* satellite?

google answered my question:
What is a spot beam?
A spot beam is a satellite beam which is focused on a relatively small portion of the earths surface.
It may require 20-30 typical spot beams to provide coverage of the entire United States.
The coverage area of a beam on the Earth is referred to as the footprint.
Spot beams are also referred to as narrow beams.
The opposite of a spot beam is a broad beam.

So are all locals provided by spotbeams?
 
I don't know how accurate this stuff is, just turned it up on a google search:



There are spot beam maps here:

http://wvjw.info/dbs-beam/


All "locals" are not on spot beams. NY and LA (at least) go out over the whole footprint, for folks who have RV's, ect.
 
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tcass, if it is as easy as cancelling paper billing and switching over, do it and then if you can't pick them up just call back in a few days and tell them you decided to leave the dish at your old house so you need to get your old locals back. If it can all be done on the Internet I doubt it will even want an explanation. Oh and report back and tell us how your move goes :)
 
Research works wonders on stuff like this.

Step one. http://www.dishchannelchart.com/ shows that New Orleans locals are coming from spotbeam 23 on Echostar 10.

Step two. http://ekb.dbstalk.com/297 is a page with information about the various spotbeams. On that page you will find a link to http://ekb.dbstalk.com/E10spots/e10t23.pdf which is the "National Map with transponder 23 highlighted" showing that the spot covers part of south Mississippi. I'm not that familiar with where the major cities are, so you'll have to look and see if you're covered.

Step three. Check your signal strength for 110 transponder 23. If it's acceptable, you are receiving the New Orleans spot regardless of what the map in step 2 said.
 
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tcass said:
I'm in Jackson, Miss.-area and want to "move" to New Orleans. can anyone tell me if the spot beam for New Orleans' stations will reach that far north?
As Pepper said, a little research does wonders; and using his links....

It looks like the footprint for "E-10 SpotBeam 12" just barely covers Jackson, MS. You should be able to go to Point Dish, select Sat 110 & Transponder 23, to see if you will have a strong enough signal to pick up NOLA channels from Jackson.

Looking at http://ekb.dbstalk.com/E10spots/e10spots.pdf, Jackson is in SB-11, but on the edge of SB-12 & SB-15; and a good ways from SB-14, SB-07, & SB-10. I would say if you pick anything up on TP-23, that it is coming from SB-12 which serves NOLA.

It looks like all of MS, all but the SE of AL, and most of southern TN is on SB-11.
You may find NOLA at Sat-110/TP-23/SB-12.
You may find Monroe at Sat-110/TP-27/SB-15
You may find Shreveport at Sat-110/TP-18/SB-15

Not likely, but if the footprints are off, you would have interference from the below:
You may find Nashville at Sat-110/TP-23/SB-10
You may find Cincinnati at Sat-110/TP-23/SB-10

Edit:
If you move to NOLA, you won't be able to watch the Saints games unless you use an outside antenna to pick up Jackson OTA. :D
Hope you find a place to move to.
 
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Transponder 29.

The "Spot" number is 11 out of the 49 different spots E*10 has.

Transponder 29 spot 11
or 29s11. Make sense?

I know is confusing, but there is no other way to get that much info in such a small space.

See ya
Tony
 
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