If you get Dish Network, NASA TV is now available on their primary 119 degree satellite location (on channel 213), so you don't need the 'dish 500' dual-satellite dish. You can get all the available 'cable' channels as well as NASA TV from a single dish. The additional channels on the 110 degree satellite (the Dish 500 receives from both 119 and 110) are mainly the local channel rebroadcasts and some additional pay-per-view and foreign language channels. - Fred (Dish Network subscriber) By the way, I've seen Echostar I, one of the two Dish Network sats at 119, in my 13" reflecting telescope. It was one of the first geosats I tried for. Russ Johnson wrote: > Here's the info on NASA-TV: > NASA-TV is available at no extra cost on both DirecTV and Dish > Network, but > they're running out of capacity on their primary satellites so they put > it on > their secondary satellites. You can't get it on the regular 18" > dish--you need to > buy the systems capable of receiving from two satellites. On DirecTV you would > need either "DirecTV Plus" or "DirecTV Para Todos" 18x24" dishes (which > are also > upgradeable to HDTV in the future) to access this satellite, on Dish > Network you > would need the "Dish500" system. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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