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To: Valueman who wrote (3955)	7/8/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

Valueman, we appear to be at opposite ends of the generational spectrum: you just had a baby girl and I just attended my son's graduation from college. Let me assure you that the first is an enormously more cash negative experience than the second! OTOH, the little ones don't do nasty things like beat the hell out of their dads on the golf course so there are compensations. Congratulations again. Just when I've convinced myself that I have a 1/2 way decent understanding of the sat biz, along comes this HS601 'anomaly'. I had thought that once a bird was in orbit, been checked out and was in communication with earth stations, etc. that the rest of it's 7-8 year life was pretty much on auto pilot. [notwithstanding really weird stuff like flares, mini-meteors, etc.] Apparently this is not the case, or is the Hughes situation a real odd-ball? Thanks in advance, Mike Doyle