johanson wrote:
> Something seems weird here. Wasn't Anik F-1 just launched about 4 years ago?
> It was a Boeing bird and was advertised as one of the most powerful
> commercial satellites available. Then came Anik F-2 last fall.
>
> Ku signals from Anik F-1 are so powerful (star choice) that one can pick up
> signals as far south as Honduras, Central America with a 75 cm dish,
> something you can not to with DISH or DirecTV.
>
>
Anik F1 was launched November 21st, 2000 and is suffering from
accelerated degradation of its solar array panels, otherwords the panels
are foging up.
The same problem exists with Galaxy 11 and the XM birds which are Boeing
702 first generation models.
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