[Gllug] MythTV on an (ex-)Sky+ satellite dish?
Julian Somers
lists at bigpip.com
Thu Oct 12 09:56:42 UTC 2006
On 07:51 Wed 11 Oct , John G Walker wrote:
>
>
> 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,
You can see the inclined orbit sats that have strayed out of the Clarke
belt here: http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/jtrack/3d/
They are really useful, for people at the poles, and for ISPs in poor
countries. I used to run an ISP in Zimbabwe -- we could't afford to
buy space on any of the satellites that kept still.
Julian
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