They'd have to re-aim ALL the station/network dishes pointed at it now. So, perhaps they'll leave the odd skew, so nobody (except us) has to change their dishes.
Aren't all the TPs skewed 20-25 degrees on that satellite? I heard that sometimes people are getting the Huntington Beach channels on both H and V. The NBC channels are just much weaker, so on my 76 cm dish, the skew means I can't lock a signal. So if all the TPs are oddly skewed, wouldn't it depend on more than what NBC wants?
Aren't all the TPs skewed 20-25 degrees on that satellite? I heard that sometimes people are getting the Huntington Beach channels on both H and V. The NBC channels are just much weaker, so on my 76 cm dish, the skew means I can't lock a signal. So if all the TPs are oddly skewed, wouldn't it depend on more than what NBC wants?
That's wrong, unless they somehow changed it. I used to get some of the other transponders on both polarities fairly often. I haven't lately, but I think it's just the tracking being off a little.
did take about 3 days to nicely go from drift to geostationary (as I look at the STRATCOM archives) - started around the 22nd and close to geostationary on the 25th so it looks like gradual maneuvers were performed to slow the drift and put it at 103W.
That's wrong, unless they somehow changed it. I used to get some of the other transponders on both polarities fairly often. I haven't lately, but I think it's just the tracking being off a little.