29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
5:30 a.m.
At 01:11 AM 9/30/2005 +1200, Steve Phillips wrote:
The west/east profile gives a rather "interesting" coverage map and the performance will be different from the intelsat (north/south profile) they are currently using.
indeed - but it will give us relief from those mysterious drop outs of several hours around 12 noon in April and September. (ie equinox) At Karapiro the dish was 5deg off north and at 45deg elevation - at equinox....... of course using both birds would be nice....but so would lower latency, higher bandwidth, cheaper access, no rain, more money, air conditioning in the van, cheaper diesel, better hotels, better food, <sigh>