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>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:09:10 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Mark Sanford <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7164 Satellite services
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Hello:
Perhaps you would like to install the system we use here at our
lab. DishNetwork. Maybe their web site can answer some of your questions.
http://commercial.dishnetwork.com/index.shtml
We have fourteen receivers all working off of one dish. Two dishes
actually, because we're looking at two different satellites (I'm not sure
why we need to look at two satellites). In any event, the two dishes get
connected to this device:
"Video Path" Multi-Dish Switch
Model DP34
107107
which is mounted in a utility closet in the basement. Each "Multi-Dish
Switch" has four A-V outputs, each one cabled to a receiver (The Box) in a
classroom or study room or wherever. You then use The Box very much the
same way you use a VCR,i.e., it has video and audio outputs to go to your
TV set or video monitor, and you can rifle through all those foreign
language channels using the included remote control.
For all I know there is no limit to the number of receivers (Boxes) you can
hang off of a single dish because the Multi-Dish Switches can be ganged
together, like ours are. I count fourteen receivers all going at once
around here.
Best regards,
Mark
At 04:40 PM 5/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Date: 29 May 2003 08:05:57 EDT
> >From: LLTI-Editor
> >Subject: #7164 Satellite services
> >To: LLTI@listserv (LLTI)
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>--- Forwarded Message from Michael Jones <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:02:31 -0400
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >From: Michael Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Satellite services
>
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I hope everyone's semester is slowly winding down and you're
>beginning to contemplate summer projects. I have a question I was
>hoping someone could give me some advice on relating to one of my
>summer projects at Swarthmore. We're planning an upgrade of our
>Satellite system to expand the services we're able to offer in the
>LRC. We had been receiving various programs off a steerable dish,
>with the capability of receiving, recording, or distributing into the
>LRC any one program to which the receiver was tuned. What I would
>like to do instead is add some number of receivers, rf modulators and
>whatever other equipment we need, in order to distribute 10, or
>possibly 15 channels of foreign programming into the LRC. We'd
>subscribe to let's say TV 5, TV Polonia, German TV, RAI and whatever
>else we want and distribute all of it into the lab.
>
>Channel 3 - TV 5
>Channel 4 - RAI
>Channel 5 - German TV
>etc.
>
>Essentially we'd have an LRC custom cable system where a student
>could sit down at a station in the lab, go to the proper channel and
>see RAI while someone at a different station is viewing something
>completely different.
>
>Is anyone doing something like this already? What equipment are you
>using, or would you need in order to achieve something like this?
>
>Clearly you'd need a satellite dish for every satellite from which
>programming is coming. Do you then need a dedicated receiver and rf
>modulator for each channel you're passing into the LRC, or is there
>one piece of equipment that will tune and modulate multiple channels?
>This is outside of my area of expertise, so I apologize if I've got
>some concepts wrong, or butchered vocabulary. Thanks for any help!
>
>
> - Mike
>
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>_________________________________________________________________
>
>
>Michael Jones
>Director,
>Language Resource Center
>Swarthmore College
>
>(610) 328-8036
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