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To: Kenya AA who wrote (4304)	9/22/1999 11:15:00 AM
From: fooledalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12662

K & NW, All of the service providers probably get their feeds off of the same satellites. (I guess Mr. K would know for sure, though.) f

To: Kenya AA who wrote (4304)	9/22/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: fooledalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12662

K, Are you still looking at LSI at 55? I thought I would split the difference and placed an order for 55 1/2. Doesn't look like that will happen today, either. f

To: Kenya AA who wrote (4304)	9/22/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 12662

K, They seem to park over the equator, but have various elevations and asmuths. So they are in the same general direction. I need one the has a little higher elevation is all. 60 degrees would have been great. the two at dish both have less then 45 degrees. On my real time service COMP is NASDAQ, and COMPX is NASDAQ Composite Index. I get nothing for IDIX. NW

To: Kenya AA who wrote (4304)	9/22/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12662

K - Not too sure about that - when I first asked Mr. K how he knew where the satellite was, he said that it was the only place that you can cover the whole USA from Now a flash from the world of science. There is a single orbit where the rotation time of the satellite happens to exactly match the earth's spin - this is known as the geosynchronous orbit since satellites appear to "hang in the sky" without moving. Current technology lets us place about 200 satellites in this orbit. The spots that are visible from the US and Europe are of course the hottest. About 50 are viewable from both the US and Europe - many of these are used by telecommunications birds. Not all the slots are used by any means but it is getting crowded in the geosynchronous orbit. None the less, I can site 6 different TV birds from my house, and there are probably more that I just don't know about. Not every provider has feeds from every bird obviously but most have at least 2.