[Gllug] MythTV on an (ex-)Sky+ satellite dish?

John G Walker johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Oct 11 06:51:09 UTC 2006



On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:04:58 +0100 (BST) "John Winters"
<john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

> [snip]
> > Apparently, all the geostationary TV satellites orbit the equator,
> 
> Arranging for a geostationary satellite anywhere else would be an
> interesting trick!
> 
> John
> 

You would have to put them into highly elliptical orbits. The Russians
did try this with one of their early TV satellites, apparently to
improve reception in Siberia, but I don't think it was too successful,

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 All the best,
 John
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