Sat 77?
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77 will show up on all Dishnetwork receivers that are capable of seeing it (Dish Pro ones). Of course when you go to point a dish at it, if you are not in the south, you probably will not be able to pick up a signal. If you point a dish at 61.5 (or another sat) and try to pick up 77 the signal meter will say wrong sat and tell you the one you are really looking at.
Not exactly - there is a really, really old sat at 77 that is being tested.
It's the satellite equivalent of a 1979 Ford Fairlane that leaks a quart of oil every week.
LOL. Remember the AMC 1975 Pacer?? The worlds ugliest car ever.
Sorry. I could not resist.
Back on topic!!
Sorry. I could not resist.
Back on topic!!
Back on topic, they are using the old Echostar 4 satellite which is actually on a tilt...
TSE - Echostar 4
TSE - Echostar 4
Iceberg,
While its possible the 77 Orbital slot is going to be used for a Satellite service for Mexico, I believe it is going to one of three Orbital slots that are to be used for the new MPEG4 only service. A Single Dish could easily be able to receive Three Slots 61.5, 68, and 77. If Dish does use three Orbital slots with 32 transponders licenses at each slot in MPEG4 using 8PSK, they could provide all current SD content, cover 70-80 percent of the US Population for local HD Markets, as well as 150 plus National HD channels.
John
John,
Looking at the footprint for 77W, it doesn't look like 77W covers the US.
Spot Beam and Coverage Maps
Plus right now E* has permission to operate this satellite for Mexico services only. But that can change fast.
This is the first I have heard of anyone considering use of 68 W for a DBS slot. More likely are the 62.15 W, 75 W and 79 W "reverse DBS" slots that Dish has applied for. Of course Dish would have to have new satellites built to use these "reverse DBS" slots.
With the launch of the AMC-14 satellite to 61.5 W, Dish should be able to provide an all MPEG-4 service that has all the current SD content except that which is also provided in HD, 150 HD channels and still have about 8 TPs for spotbeams using the E-12 satellite that is already there. This assumes that Dish moves all the International programming from 61.5 and that Dish could do about 36 SD channels per TP using MPEG-4 and about 8 HD channels per TP.
It was mentioned another project - could be HD LiL co-located on DTV/E* sats with two different encryption systems but same channels ? Then 61.5W and 72.5W would be the candidates.
Plus right now E* has permission to operate this satellite for Mexico services only. But that can change fast.
Actually E* has permission to broadcast to up to 1 million dishes in the US from 77.
I didnt know about that. Is there a link you can provide? I know E5 has permission for 1 million dishes, although I would take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that Dish has more than 1million subs pointed there right now...
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-868A1.pdf
It is possible they have 1 million subs pointed at 129, but you have to remember a lot point to 61.5 for HD. It is hard to say if they have reached it or not.
Couldn't everyone in the lower 48 point at the 77. Wouldn't that make over 1,000,000 subscribers.
They could point their dishes there, but that would not make them subscribers being serviced by Dish...
