[PatrickHenry]

Googling around, I blundered into this website: Geosynchronous Orbit.

[RadioAstronomer]

But over the equator is where the satelites would be at the 22,000 mile mark, or thereabouts, but above the equator the satelites would have to be a little closer to the earth?

Not above the equator. What happens is an orbiting object orbits the common center of mass, which happens to be close to the center of the earth for a satellite. So for an orbit to cross above the equatorial plane, it also must descend below that plane as well. All geosynchronous orbit periods match the period of the Earth's rotation. A geosynchronous orbit that is orbiting on the equatorial plane (and in the same direction the Earth is turning) is also called a geostationary orbit.

All Geostationary orbits are geosynchronous. Not all geosynchronous orbits are geostationary.