"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in news:gp-
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So the antennas on the bird are directional targeted at the US? Otherwise
I would think that an equal area below the equator would be covered.

Doug


No, most US-targeted satellite services have directional antennas pointed
this way. It's bad enough trying to get enough field strength to lock up
the cheap XM/Sirius receivers with miniscule antennas so tiny. They're
pointed to the States, all right.

Wonder how they'd work duct taped to the side of the feedhorn of the Dish
Network antenna pointed at the XM bird?....hmm....

Having a more serious receiver antenna capture area would seem to extend
their range much farther than that little plastic blob magmounted to the
fire extinguisher.