satellite systems
We use two satellite systems.
The first and oldest is C-band system comprising of a Paraclipse twelve foot dish on a horizon to horizon mount. This dish is equipped with both C-band and Ku-band preamplifiers. Cable is kept in 2 inch plastic pipe entering the house in the living room where it supplies a General Instruments receiver. The audio and video outputs are fed both directly into the television there and a stereo modulator which produces a signal on channel 14.
The second system is a
Dish Network super dish which feeds model 500 and 300 receivers, one in the living room and one in the equipment room. The living room receiver contains a digital recorder and feeds a stereo modulator on channel 18, while the equipment room receiver feeds a stereo modulator which outputs on channel 24. We use the second system both for television when there are guests and to provide background music for the CCTV camera images.
In the past, we used Dish Network dish for broadband satellite via the Starband service. We found that satellite broadband suffers from latency (the time it takes for a signal to do the approximately 44,000 mile round trip) to the Starband imposed limitations on uplinking. They claimed an upload speed of 53k, but we were never able to exceed 19k and a technician confirmed this as being a more practical limit.
distribution
The signals are combined with the VHF modulated outputs of the various CCTV cameras and distributed throughout the home. There are Xantech infrared receivers in most rooms which feed commands via Xantech processors to the satellite receivers.
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