--- Forwarded Message from Michael Jones <[log in to unmask]> --- >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 -- _________________________________________________________________ Michael Jones Director, Language Resource Center Swarthmore College (610) 328-8036 [log in to unmask] http://lrc.swarthmore.edu