Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Loral Space & Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: brian h who wrote (2083)	3/2/1998 11:36:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

Brian: If you imagine all the GEO sats lined up along the equator in a ring around the world, then you can picture how your dish must be aligned with a particular sat to see content that is transmitted from it. You will be lined up with Telstar5, which is the satellite Loral has been using to broadcast G* launches. Telstar 5 has both C-band and Ku-band transponders. High power Ku-band systems like DirecTV or Echostar use small 18" dishes, while lower power services use a bigger dish. Primestar is medium power, while the older very large dishes are lower power yet(C-band). It depends on your decoder what kind of programming you receive. The older systems with the 12 foot dishes will automatically move to receive content from different satellites, and some can receive C and Ku band transmissions. The DirecTV, Echostar, etc. systems stay fixed on one satellite, using Ku-band, with a very specific decoder.