National HD on spotbeams at 110

[tsduke]

There are some national HD channels on spotbeam for AK. When Echo XI is in place will AK be able to get these off of conus instead so these spots can be used for new HD locals?

 

[JohnH]

That would only be possible if those same channels were on ConUS at 110 and reception was comparable to the spotbeam reception.

 

[tsduke]

I asked because it's been said it should get better signal than echo 8.

TNT, HDTHR, HDNET, HDNMV, ESPN, HBO, SHO-E are all on conus as well as spotbeam 46 for AK.

 

[kstuart]

Issues of signal strength in fringe areas are only known for certain by measuring the strength when the satellite is actually in place.