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- From: system@howtek.MV.COM (System Administrator)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
- Subject: Re: Why is EVERYTHING good in the Western sats!
- Message-ID: <D2150040.m8unj1@howtek.MV.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:35:47 GMT
- Reply-To: system@phunt.MV.COM
- Organization: Howtek, Inc.
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- In article <9212231851.AA25889@aurw6b.aur.alcatel.com> (rec.video.satellite), Mike Gingell <aurs01!aurw6b!gingell@CONCERT.NET> writes:
- ] Phil Hunt phil@phunt.MV.COM writes:
- ] >Why are they putting everything good onto westernmost satellites?
- ] >Isn't that discriminatory against the East coast?
- ] >
- ]
- ] >I just found out alot of services are moving to C1(F1) at 137 degrees!!!!!
- ] >Luckily, I can get down to the new C4, but C1 is in the trees. I can barely
- ] >get picture, unless it is real cold outside. BUMMER!
- ]
- ] >Noone (or mostly noone) in the east can get that! It is only 4 degrees above
- ] >the horizon!!!
- ]
- ] You don't just live on the East Coast - you must live in the FAR NORTH
- ] EAST to get an elevation as low as that. I consider myself as
- ] "living on the East Coast" - we are in Raleigh NC and the elevation here
- ] is about 15.5 degrees. I plugged some approximate numbers in for Boston
- ] and I get 7.6 degrees.
- ]
- I live 60 miles NORTH of Boston!!!...To give you an idea, Buffalo,NY is
- SouthWest of here!!!!
-
- ] Anyway, where did you get this info about any services moving to C1/F1 -
- ] thats been fairly full for some time. There has been no discussion of this
- ] on the net or any other media that I have seen. Many services ARE moving
- ] to C3 (was F3 also known as F1R) at 131 degrees.
- ]
- It has been on Superguide for a week or 10 days. Superguide has very up-to-date
- articles as it 'publishes' every day!
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- Phil
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