From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Title: Re: Geosynchronus orbits Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1344 Posted: Tue May 10 11:20:30 1983 Received: Fri May 13 03:41:31 1983 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) The closer the angular spacing of the satellites, the larger a dish antenna has to be to resolve them. The problem arises with direct- broadcast TV satellites and the use of AM; this limits the number of possible spectrum slots. To track a satellite with a fixed disk, the satellite does have to be geosynchronous over the equator.