NASA-TV is very nice to have for tracking the Shuttle during a pass. The Dish Network has had NASA-TV for several years. At one time you needed to have two 18 inch dishes, one for the Dish Network core programing and the other to pick up it's specialty programing, including NASA-TV. Since the beginning of this year NASA-TV is now available without a second dish using the Dish 500 system. This is the system I have had at home since February. Previously I paid over $50 a month on cable with one channel of HBO and no NASA-TV. I'm now paying a little less per month, kept basic cable at $9 per month for my local stations and added Dish Network for $40 per month for better picture quality, NASA-TV, 7 channels of HBO and tons of other programing I wasn't getting with cable. There is usually a special going on at Dish Network installers where if you are switching from cable to Dish Network, then you get the dish, receiver and installation for free. Check out WWW.DISHNETWORK.COM for more information. I know this sounds like an ad for Dish Network, but I have been very happy with their service. My original reason for going to Dish Network was to receive NASA-TV for the planetarium where I work. For many years we had an old C-band dish to receive NASA-TV but it finally died on us. I looked into a replacement C-band, but they were far too expensive for us. I found out that Dish Network was the only 18 inch dish provider at the time that had NASA-TV, so there really wasn't a choice for me. After having it at work for over a year I decided to get it for my home as well. I spent way too many hours in the planetarium watching NASA-TV and I though it would be better to go home once in a while! If you don't have NASA-TV on your cable system, switching to Dish Network would be a good choice. I certainly don't regret my decision to switch! Mark Trotter Planetarium Curator Louisiana Nature Center New Orleans, Louisiana, USA http://myweb.communique.net/strotter/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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