Friday Free to air Fun Poll 6/20

[Iceberg]

There is something that I do over at Satelliteguys and that's the Friday Free to Air Fun Poll....just a little goofy question I ask to see what people say.
So lets try it here

Sometimes ya gotta think about the question...others you don't. so here is this weeks question


with satellites changing their names all the time recently which one is harder for you to remember to say

G18 instead of G10
H2 instead of SBS6
neither...I already use the new names
both...I hate change

[Iceberg]

both...I hate change

Heck I have been known to still type "IA6 & IA5" instead of G26 & G25

[Sadoun]

I have seen several name changes for the same satellite in just a few years. This sucks. It make the receivers look obsolete and creates a nightmare for new customers trying to find the new name in the list of satellites.

Why can't the new owners keep the same name? That would make it easier for all.

BTW, nice poll Iceberg.

[Sadoun]

Case in point, just yesterday a customer called me and said "I can't find Galaxy 18 in the receiver. What's going on?"

I had to explain to him that it is the same as Galaxy 10 and just use that to align the dish and scan the satellite.

[Iceberg]

my old Pansat 1500 shows things like
T5 (G25 now)
T6 (G26 now)
T7 (G27 now)
T4 (G28 now)....heck T4 blowed up a while back

heck I still call it PAS9 instead of whatever it is now (IS9 I think)

[Jim-S]

I live in Michigan and my brother lives in Florida. He has had a big dish for about 25 years, when we talk on the phone, he refers to sats as T5, T6 etc so what we do, because I don't know sats that way we talk in degrees like 123W it works for us.
Jim

[satnutwillb]

I still use the old names mostly,T5 T6 T7 G1 G5,although I am getting use to using T8 instead of T4 now.

[rainman]

I use the old names and on the forums I just use the degrees of the sat a lot easier to remember.LOL

[Sadoun]

Back in 1989 I used the old sat names and used them for many years. In 1998 when I switched to pizza dishes, I lost all memory of the satellite names.

Satellite's longitude is the easiest way now.

[macksat]

As a newbie, was about to run for the Prozac till I read this thread!
Sheeesh!!! Going cross-eyed trying to resolve my Mercury II sats with
what I find on the List or Linksat charts. Getting there though.....slowly,
very slowly.