St. Louis locals/spotbeam questions

[Ken Seeber]

I know St. Louis locals are carried on the 119 satellite, I assume on a spotbeam.  How big an area does this spotbeam cover --- as in, how far outside of St. Louis could you live and still receive the signal?

[TNGTony]

St. Louis is on spot beam 11 on echostar 7 at 119°. Looks like most of Illinois and north east into lower Michigan is covered by this beam.

http://wvjw.info/dbs-beam/
http://ekb.dbstalk.com/pictures/echo7.gif

[JohnH]

Check transponder/spotbeam 5 from 119 and see how much signal you have.

[Ken Seeber]

Thanks, guys, that's exactly the information I was looking for!