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August 20th 04, 05:09 PM

(Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ...
Subject: BPL Powers Off
From: (Brian Kelly)
Date: 8/19/2004 8:38 AM Central Standard Time
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(Brian Kelly) writes:

Say you orbit a new, state of the art satellite. How much bandwidth
can it provide to how many customers?

A whole bunch. Even the old birds which have been up for years can
repeat something like 900 TV channels and those are not considered
high-capacity satellites.

That means 900 customers can have 6 MHz of bandwidth each. Or maybe 5400
can
have 1 MHz each.

That's with antique satellites, not with the monster birds being
tossed up these days each of which which has orders of magnitude more
capacity than the TV repeaters.

For the quality of TV programming provided today (with the possible
exclusion of Discovery, History Channel and TLC)

I moved over a year ago and have yet to power up my TV rcvr . . but
now that DVD players are getting dirt cheap and a Blockbusters is only
a few blocks down the street maybe I'll be able to watch TV sans the
electronic air pollution.

they could just use one of the
old ECHO balloon satellites for all they are worth.

Agreed.

73

Steve, K4YZ

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