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Originally Posted by coloradoboundsoon
1st question- My yard is smaller then most here but i have a fairly good south view. I am at 39.65^ north, which if i figured it correctly puts the elevation at 44.12^? when looking at other sat's in the arc does that elevation stay the same? (this question is for siting purpose)
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THe 44.1 degrees is the "elevation" of a sat to your south. Any other geostationary sat will have a smaller elevation as the elevation gets smaller as you go to the east or west. However the question is, are you really asking about the elevation. The term elevation really only applies to an az/el mount, and most bud systems use polar mounts, and the elevation of a sat isn't really involved directly. With a polar mount, you set the rotation axis at an inclination (I know people refer to it as an elevation here, but I don't think that term is really appropriate, but I can't think of a better term other than inclination, which isn't that good either.), and that inclination is approximately 90 minus your latitude, or better yet, about 0.6 degrees less than this number. This inclination of the motor rotation axis doesn't change from sat to sat.
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Originally Posted by coloradoboundsoon
2nd question- what is up with motorola's 4dtv.com site. I can't seem to find it. Has motorola stopped making this unit? Do they have a replacement.
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Try
http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?...ctId=5050-8100
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Originally Posted by coloradoboundsoon
3rd question- The Rocky mountain 8 package, at one point they were going to limit that to people in colorado but i have seen websites saying "its back, and its better" are there any current limits in getting this package outside of Colorado
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I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, but there used to be a package of Denver local stations that were available for subscription, but these stations and the other similar service, (Prime Time 24 or something like that), were then taken away from TVRO'ers because local network stations at the viewer's location had rights for the network programming at that location. A compromise was worked out whereby people who were in a fringe area where they could not receive OTA stations or had never received these channels via cable could subscribe to these stations. However it was virtually impossible for anyone other than in an extremely remote area to qualify, as the "B" contour (or some term like that) extended out to something like 100 miles from the OTA stations, even in mountainous areas where reception was impossible even with huge rooftop antennas. Apparently the only exception was that if you previously subscribed before they took the service away, you could continue to subscribe. I subscribed, but dropped my subscription, and they wouldn't let me "re-subscribe". So basically 99% of the people in the country don't live in an area where you can subscribe to these stations. At least that was the case the last time I looked into it, but it has been many years since I checked up on this, so maybe things have changed.
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