new bird echostar 6 at 72.7w now active - ABA DSS

**arboristman** · August 6th, 2008

72.7w
a small dish and standard circular lnb (same dish and lnb as 119/110/91/82 use for example) will pick up this new bird.

EchoStar 6 at 72.7°W - LyngSat

some dn channels are active already and dn will be leasing 16 tps to bev.
so this bird for awhile at least,will be a combo dn/bev bird.
another bird for fun.

**Bud_Alcor** · August 6th, 2008

Now i need another dish and space.

**tb1971** · August 6th, 2008

Thanks for the info Arb thats too cool, another bird=another dish! Love it!

**tejano** · August 6th, 2008

hi you all! I have a question as you mention there is a new bird? I have a cw receiver and does not have that new bird? the onlyone it has is 51 diretv1-5(72.5 and 53ku amc 6(72w is it any of these? thanks

**tb1971** · August 6th, 2008

Arb are you currently using this bird?

**gibahca** · August 6th, 2008

maybe i can use my single dish pointed to 61.5 with another lnb to get echo6.
?????
or is it to far one from another?

DishCharlie · August 6th, 2008

This bird was moved from 110.33W as part of Charlie/Bev's strategic plan to strengthen the eastern arc. Its odd position should be accessible with an 18" wing dish or a DN500 on 72.7-82W.

cholito · August 6th, 2008

So #6 is now in another area?

What happens to 6/8 at 110?

**peggy13** · August 6th, 2008

Thanks for sharing that information with us. I would like to try to get pick it up....something to work on in my spare time...LOL

dirtywill2001 · August 6th, 2008

so unless you have an hd receiver as of right now that bird is useless...am i correct?

**lonster** · August 6th, 2008

I was looking at this yesterday......

C/P
This is a list of the active channels
EchoStar 6 © Lyngemark Satellite, last updated 2008-08-04

12516 R---tp 21

CMT East-MPEG-4

WGN America-MPEG-4

Showtime Extreme East-MPEG-4

Encore West-MPEG-4

Encore Drama East-MPEG-4

Encore Love East-MPEG-4

PPV Sports-MPEG-4

PPV Sports-MPEG-4

Penthouse TV-MPEG-4

TENXtsy-MPEG-4

Hope this helps

fvv1967 · August 6th, 2008

Can i use a motor121 on the dish to pick up new Brid....//// ??? Because im thinking about buying one this week.....

**haddad287** · August 6th, 2008

cool, so this wl reciever both DN channels and B3V channels?

dirtywill2001 · August 6th, 2008

think...you could have 1 dish with 1 lnb and if one provider goes down you would still have something to watch!

DishCharlie · August 6th, 2008

I just aimed an 18" single at 72.7W 22-degrees elevation from the Pacific Coast and have logged 47TV and 7Radio channels. Signal=85, Q=60. I did try a DN500 Twin skewed with 82W strong on the 119LNB and looked for 72.7W on the 110LNB with no usable signal.

FYI: A month after ES applied for permission to move ES6 to 72.7W, it filed to move ES8 to 77W as part of the strengthening of the eastern arc. That satellite slot is allocated to Mexico, so some joint operations may result, just as ES6 is now to be shared with Canada. We're gonna need some new LNB brackets.

**Landscapeman** · August 6th, 2008

What sat will this eventually replace?

dirtywill2001 · August 7th, 2008

with e8 moving east as well it looks like i have some tree cutting in my future...

DishCharlie · August 7th, 2008

The 72.7W slot is allocated to Canada which has allowed DT to operate several successive interim sats there. DN is hoping to muscle in when the present agreements expire.

DishCharlie · August 7th, 2008

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Originally Posted by dirtywill2001

with e8 moving east as well it looks like i have some tree cutting in my future...

Just to clarify, DN will still broadcast from 110W using ES10, with more backups moving in from other discontinued slots and new launches.

**arboristman** · August 7th, 2008

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Originally Posted by rodolfo

hi you all! I have a question as you mention there is a new bird? I have a cw receiver and does not have that new bird? the onlyone it has is 51 diretv1-5(72.5 and 53ku amc 6(72w is it any of these? thanks

no.you will want to make a new bird for now.call it echo6 @ 72.7w
then add the tps you find there at lyngsat.com or for now,you could blind scan this bird to pick up tps as they are added.in the future coders will add this bird in the sats lists.

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Originally Posted by tb1971

Arb are you currently using this bird?

not yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gibahca

maybe i can use my single dish pointed to 61.5 with another lnb to get echo6.
?????
or is it to far one from another?

i would try this for sure.its only 11.2 ( my quick in head math right?lol) degrees.setup a poormans dish 61.5/72.7 buddy.

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Originally Posted by cholito

So #6 is now in another area?

What happens to 6/8 at 110?

echo 6 was replaced with echo 10 quite awhile ago now.echo 8.10 = 110w currently.(though some stbs still read as echo 6/8-this is incorrect-but works fine of course.just confusing now lol)

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Originally Posted by dirtywill2001

so unless you have an hd receiver as of right now that bird is useless...am i correct?

mpeg4 channels only for now yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fvv1967

Can i use a motor121 on the dish to pick up new Brid....//// ??? Because im thinking about buying one this week.....

a motor will get many birds.this seems to be the way to go nowadays.the only disadvantage with motors rather than lots of dishes is you have to wait for the motor to move from bird to bird.so you will have channel delays of a few seconds.but of course its much cleaner.and with a nice big 36" or so with invacom lnb,you can get linear birds for true fta as well.
a motor and a HD receiver will soon become the most popular setup in the future.
and not very good for dual tuners or multiple receiver stbs.(not by themselfs anyway) but great for 1 stb.and ideal for 1 hd stb.

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Originally Posted by haddad287

cool, so this wl reciever both DN channels and B3V channels?

yeah thats right.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Landscapeman

What sat will this eventually replace?

well for sure there are going to be channel shifting and such.but they wont want to replace everyone's dishes etc.this seems to be a way to expand HD into the future with more channels.