Bell about to create some space on 82....

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I heard today that the Horse Racing channels are about to move back to 91, around November 13th I believe. This will free up some valuable bandwidth for some new HD on 82.

It will be interesting to see what they add for us.

The change will probably affect less than 0.01% of customers as 99.99% of customers that have 82 also have 91. There are a handfull that only have 82 so it will require a re-point for them.
 
I agree, about 4 channels.

There may be others moving as well, so as Leaf Fan says, might just create enough room for 1 or 2 HD channels.
 
Well they moved nimiq2 from the 82 spot to 91, so yes more bandwith and signal will be availible,

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=27632

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91 is under used.. Ever take a look at Echostar 110\119.. they sure put alot of channels per transponder.
 
They can still only use 32 transponders so I doubt there is actually much more bandwidth available to them.

Just better compression techniques.
 
I dont know if this works.. but if both Nimiq 1 and 2 were to shoot each lets say 10 different channels on TP 1,, wouldnt the ird see 20 channels on TP1??
 
I guess the receiver would see them but with twice the channels, that would equate to half the bandwidth per channel.

There is enough compression now, you don't really, honestly suggest they double the compression just to add more channels do we.?
 
why would it create more compression. each TP has X amount of bandwidth. If 2 sats are side by side,, wouldnt both TP = double the bandwidth??? Because they each have their load?? I dont see how the IRD has anything to do with this.
 
Each transponder broadcasts at a fixed frequency so two satellites won't double the transponder capacity.

-Mike
 
Can someone explain how Dish is doing it?? How are they putting out so many channels per orbital location??
 
well one thing to point out for dish is that there are 2 sats at 119 and 110 and 110 just got a brand new sat called echo 11 which shold be good to get more channels then. with the sats bell is using most of them are crippled old sats with only half of there TP's working. correct me if im wrong but wasn't nimiq 4 the first brand new sat bell has up there?
 
Nimiq 1 was new,, and Nimiq 2 was new. Nimiq 3, 4i, 4iR was all old sats they picked up. That still doesnt answer the question, ok Echostar 119,, it still works on the same system as BEV, 32 TP per orbital location, so what gives?? Nimiq 1 is getting old, but if they put Nimiq1\2 together,, they can probably make something happen.
 
Dish uses spot beams for their locals which allow them to reuse frequencies by only directing them to specific parts of the country. It doesn't help us here in Canada because Bell broadcasts all our "locals" everywhere, and we don't have nearly as many. Dish also uses MPEG4 and 8PSK for much of their HD, a transition Bell has yet to make. They also have more satellites at more orbital locations than Bell does. It's not uncommon for Dish customers to require a wing dish to make use of them. Bell could make use of the eight Ka band transponders on Nimiq 4, but that would require some new hardware at the dish.

Telesat has issued a call for interest in the 17 GHz BSS band, proposing additional satellites at 72.5
 
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