Ed_Gee wrote:
The original poster did not say what programming he was using ... According to what I find, DirecTV also makes good use of spot beams and the original poster could have easily been moving out of his Alabama spotbeam pattern.
DirecTV Satellite footprints and spot beams
Then again, even the CONUS footprint shows a deteriorating signal on the 101 satellite moving from Alabama to Texas.... as a previously poster said.
If by "programming" you mean carrier, it is DirecTV. Sometime SD and sometime HD.
I left the local spot beam, as expected, early in the trip. Actually, managed to get DTV to give me NY network access (another story: after being denied they just suddenly showed up). I guess I never knew there was that much difference, east to west. I have made trips in the past and experienced signal loss which I attributed to latitude difference. This trip I stayed basically at the same latitude.
Looking at the source satellite locations of longitude 99/101/103 west, they appear to be centrally located, more or less, in the US. The 101 longitude runs along a line near Armarillo, TX. This adds to the puzzlement, in my mind, as to why the East is stronger than the West. I gather that most people in this discussion are of the opinion that the signals are, to a degree, directional.
