Thread: Need a BISS IRD!

Hi... I'm an SNG uplink engineer based in DC. Our teleport is trying to deploy a private channel for a client with 50 some downlink sites in Europe. Normally, when we do BISS, we use our professional IRDs, which cost several thousand dollars each. This is not practical for this particular job. We are going to be using Tandberg E5500 encoders with BISS for the uplink, but need to find a cheap IRD for the downlink sites that can support BISS-E. While I have ten years experience running portable uplinks all over the world (most recently 4 paths out of Haiti) I have no idea about the "comsumer" Linux IRD's. Will any of these cheap Linux-based IRD's here on this site accept my BISS key right out of the box, or is there any additional software I need to install? If so, I have not been able to find a tutorial on that here, if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great.

Thanks!
Bob

http://www.tvuplink.net

Welcome to our site - - - I don't know the answer to your question - - - but many very smart folks here that I'm sure will help.

Best of Success with you endeavor!

SatelliteAV should be chiming in here shortly. Brian Gohl and crew I believe have a BISS compatible system that they sell.


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Edit - Adding a direct link to one of their BISS compatible receivers ->
http://satelliteav.com/p/shop/?ws_pid=670&ws_cat=446

That would be great. If anyone has a system they sell, I would like to hear about it. Chapelrun- I see you have a C130 on your Avitar. Do you fly them? They are LOUD! I had to listen to several of them 24/7 (and withstand the hurricane wind they generate) while uplinking at the airport in Port Au Prince for 5 days!

Welcome to the forum!

We carry STBs (GEOSATpro DVR1100c, DSR200c) and rack mount (DSRR100 , DSRR100b) receivers which support BISS 1 type.

If you require BISS E, we can implement if the project is adequate quantity to cover the RD.

Please give us a call or drop an email to our sales department for additional information.

Briah Gohl is an Authority in Satellite signal uplink. Welcome to satelliteguys 14GHz,

BISS-1 is fine, the Tandberg encoders support that mode. I'm going to give you a phone call...

Originally Posted by 14GHz

That would be great. If anyone has a system they sell, I would like to hear about it. Chapelrun- I see you have a C130 on your Avitar. Do you fly them? They are LOUD! I had to listen to several of them 24/7 (and withstand the hurricane wind they generate) while uplinking at the airport in Port Au Prince for 5 days!

I was a C-130 Navigator both in the U.S. Air Force and the Air National Guard for about 12 years. I really miss the flying and I love that airplane - - one of the best of all time!

Originally Posted by chapelrun

I was a C-130 Navigator both in the U.S. Air Force and the Air National Guard for about 12 years. I really miss the flying and I love that airplane - - one of the best of all time!

I have flown in many C130's! Fun stuff! I myself am getting in to SNG (allthough at a bad time) Anything you can recommend on what to do other than reading sams manual? Right now im in the proceess of getting my CDL and am trying to get experiance as well as education on the production side. Hopefully that with my miltary experiance can launch things for someone. I was looking into michell tech, but I cant afford to move my family for their degree. I want to do the slingpath trainning, and most likely would have to pay out of pocket for that.