GOLFnSUN
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Comcast
1 edit |  If launch successful, new service starts in April 2007
»www.pressmethod.com/releasestorage/12081.htm
If the launch goes as planned, WildBlue will conduct in-orbit testing and plan to offer service with the new satellite in April 12, 2007, pushed back from the original January date. Sharing the launch will be a satellite built by Lockheed Martin for Americom to provide service for cable companies in the US. The WildBlue and the Americom sats will launch from Kourou, French Guiana.
»www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=21287
AMC-18 is an all C-band satellite, designed to offer full North American coverage including all 50 U.S. states, the Caribbean and Mexico from 105 degrees West longitude. It will become the third satellite in this section of the "arc" delivering cable programming --
--
My BLOG
My Web Page |
|
battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out.  |
|
PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Oh please tell me you are being sarcastic, battleop |
|
RIRWIN1983
join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH
·RoadRunner Cable
| He actually has a good point. They (cable) are biggots they advertise so heavely about satellite dishes causing house fires, or that if you think it looks ugly now (the dish) wait till it rains or snows. When in all actualy cable gets about 75% (a guess) of its programing from a c-band satellite. |
|
PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
Premium
join:2005-01-03
·CableOne
| That IS funny that cable disses sat so bad, yet I know that they get all their programming (sans locals) from a collection of large sat dishes, as I've seen them at the Comcast office in my city, and common sense begs the question, how do you think a cable provider in Washington State gets all the feeds from the big networks that are all located on the East Coast, anyway?
Also, I've never seen DBS do this. Even with poor grounding! Oh, and I've never fallen asleep on a customer's couch, either! 
I'm a DirecTV installer. Personally, if you are losing your picture due to precipitation, your dish isn't pointed accurately enough to begin with. A properly aimed dish will almost never lose signal enough for you to visually notice.
Worried about snow sticking to your dish? A good coat of WD-40 in November should get you through the winter without a hitch-er, pixellation!
I lose my signal on my DirecTV about once a year, usually when we have our infamous annual July hailstorm. Guess what? Comcast's signal degrades severely during this time as well.
--
"I invented it, Bill made it famous." --David Bradley, the inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del. |
|
GOLFnSUN
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| reply to RIRWIN1983
said by RIRWIN1983  :When in all actualy cable gets about 75% (a guess) of its programing from a c-band satellite. There is a big difference in the size of the dishes used by the cable companies and by home users to capture signals. The C-Band dishes have a much better ability to capture a signal during inclement weather.
C-Band dish
DTV-Dish dishes
--
--
My BLOG
My Web Page |
|
digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| reply to battleop
said by battleop :Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out. LOL.. apparently you are only familiar with pizza dishes. C-Band is not affected by rain. A lot of the programming you watch on cable and pizza dishes comes from C-Band.
--
FWD#64466(6PM-11PM GMT-5)
»[Sipura] Make your Sipura Speak! - GetSipura Guide
And now for the PAP2-NA and unlocked PAP2's. |
|
digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| reply to GOLFnSUN
There's nothing stopping you from using a 10 footer for DishNet or DirecTV, but the huge difference is C Band is around the 3.7ghz-4.2ghz band and the main band DishNet and Direct use is 12.2ghz-12.7ghz. One of the other reasons for the bigger dishes is due to the 2 degree satellite spacing.
--
FWD#64466(6PM-11PM GMT-5)
»[Sipura] Make your Sipura Speak! - GetSipura Guide
And now for the PAP2-NA and unlocked PAP2's. |
|
Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to digiblur
Thanks for clearing that up guys... it always amazes me how some people can speak so definitively about something they prove that they know nothing about with those same definitive words. |
|
battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to PolarBear
Well duh. |
|
battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000
| reply to digiblur
LOL Apparently I have to amend my post for you.
/sarcasm ON
Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out.
/sarcasm OFF
I have and still use daily a 8 Foot dish with a 4DTV Receiver and some MPEG-2 Boxes. |
|
hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs:
 ·QuantumVoice
 ·AT&T Southeast
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by battleop :I have and still use daily a 8 Foot dish with a 4DTV Receiver and some MPEG-2 Boxes. 10 ft dish here and 4dtv with motorola hd box. Best picture out there hands down. |
|
