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Hey guys, I'm copying this word-for-word from another forum, hoping for a little bit of insight from someone else who's tried something crazy.
Greetings. I am relatively new to DirecTV and have had a situation (and opportunity!) placed in my lap and I'm hoping that someone here may shed some light before I put in a lot of time, money, and effort.
Background information, you can skip this if you want.
I am a student at a university. While here, I am the head projectionist and equipment supervisor for the theater on campus (we run a Barco DP2000 digital projector fed by a DSS100/DSP100, with a Gefen scaler which allows us alternate content including DirecTV, as we have a commercial contract and a dish mounted on the roof). In addition to that, I am a student technician with our telecommunications department. One of the things I get to help work on and maintain is our cable tv headend (we have 64 DirecTV receivers feeding into Blonder Tongue encoders (HDE-2H-QAM), along with several SCOLA feeds, NASA, MTVU, etc). The four LNB feeds hit an amplifier before hitting 8-way splitters to hit 8 Zinwell MS6x8WB-Z multiplexers
The problem.
The location of the theater on campus is that of a lecture hall. This particular building is in a bit of a valley, so our dish is pointing at a hilltop through trees. When a good wind comes, we start getting all kinds of problems. The dish feeding the head end, however, is at the top of that hill and experiences none of those problems.
The proposal.
I want to either relocate our dish to the top of that building, or abandon our dish all together and split the signal pre-amplification to feed a separate multiplexer, to then feed an HFC to utilize the existing fiber optic cable throughout our campus to get then utilize the receiver end of an HFC to get back onto coaxial line to feed receivers. Additionally, I wouldn't mind also using a combiner to inject the campus cable into this same line.
The questions.
...has anyone tried having a dish mounted remotely and utilizing an HFC to get signal to their building? Does anyone see any reason why this shouldn't work, since they make l-band HFCs and ones that will do 2MHz to 3000Mhz (though, typically more around 2200MHz)? For anyone that has sent the l-band along with cable TV...does it pass through a tap alright or would we have to reduce the 1/2 hardline to RG6 and hit a splitter to get the satellite signal off of the cable TV?
The alternatives.
One might ask why we want this when there's such an extensive cable setup already. Well, we show events for student orgs and those events may be on channels not normally offered (not mentioned, but I intend to also get a 95W international dish). It's very expensive to add additional channels (around the tune of $8,000) to what is existing.
So...did I miss any important information? Any questions?
Is this the most complicated setup you've heard of? What other complex setups have you seen or heard of?
EDIT: A, perhaps, simpler question which is fundamentally what I am asking. Is there any reason why I could not have a satellite remotely mounted and send the l-band via fiber to another location using an HFC?
Greetings. I am relatively new to DirecTV and have had a situation (and opportunity!) placed in my lap and I'm hoping that someone here may shed some light before I put in a lot of time, money, and effort.
Background information, you can skip this if you want.
I am a student at a university. While here, I am the head projectionist and equipment supervisor for the theater on campus (we run a Barco DP2000 digital projector fed by a DSS100/DSP100, with a Gefen scaler which allows us alternate content including DirecTV, as we have a commercial contract and a dish mounted on the roof). In addition to that, I am a student technician with our telecommunications department. One of the things I get to help work on and maintain is our cable tv headend (we have 64 DirecTV receivers feeding into Blonder Tongue encoders (HDE-2H-QAM), along with several SCOLA feeds, NASA, MTVU, etc). The four LNB feeds hit an amplifier before hitting 8-way splitters to hit 8 Zinwell MS6x8WB-Z multiplexers
The problem.
The location of the theater on campus is that of a lecture hall. This particular building is in a bit of a valley, so our dish is pointing at a hilltop through trees. When a good wind comes, we start getting all kinds of problems. The dish feeding the head end, however, is at the top of that hill and experiences none of those problems.
The proposal.
I want to either relocate our dish to the top of that building, or abandon our dish all together and split the signal pre-amplification to feed a separate multiplexer, to then feed an HFC to utilize the existing fiber optic cable throughout our campus to get then utilize the receiver end of an HFC to get back onto coaxial line to feed receivers. Additionally, I wouldn't mind also using a combiner to inject the campus cable into this same line.
The questions.
...has anyone tried having a dish mounted remotely and utilizing an HFC to get signal to their building? Does anyone see any reason why this shouldn't work, since they make l-band HFCs and ones that will do 2MHz to 3000Mhz (though, typically more around 2200MHz)? For anyone that has sent the l-band along with cable TV...does it pass through a tap alright or would we have to reduce the 1/2 hardline to RG6 and hit a splitter to get the satellite signal off of the cable TV?
The alternatives.
One might ask why we want this when there's such an extensive cable setup already. Well, we show events for student orgs and those events may be on channels not normally offered (not mentioned, but I intend to also get a 95W international dish). It's very expensive to add additional channels (around the tune of $8,000) to what is existing.
So...did I miss any important information? Any questions?
Is this the most complicated setup you've heard of? What other complex setups have you seen or heard of?
EDIT: A, perhaps, simpler question which is fundamentally what I am asking. Is there any reason why I could not have a satellite remotely mounted and send the l-band via fiber to another location using an HFC?
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Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
www.usgs.gov
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
Monitoring Data for Kīlauea
For more information on how electronic tiltmeters and GPS receivers help monitor the deformation of Kīlauea volcano, see the HVO Deformation page.
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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Oooo, quite the show now. All three vents have doming and overflows. The cone that built up around the North vent lost its upper quarter at 02:50 Oct 17 and is now spewing lava at a healthy rate. Don't know if I would say it's a fountain, but it's close.
edit: The USGS has called the official start of Episode 55 as starting at 03:19 HST Oct 17, 2026:
Alert Level: WATCH, Color Code: ORANGE 2026-10-17 13:43:56 UTC
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice
Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE
Issued: Saturday, October 17, 2026, 3:43 AM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H488
Location: N 19 deg 25 min W 155 deg 17 min
Elevation: 4091 ft (1247 m)
Area: Hawaii
Summary: Episode 55 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 3:19 AM HST on October 17, 2026.
Volcanic Activity:
Episode 55 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 3:19 AM HST on October 17, 2026.
Fountain heights are relatively low at about 100-150 feet (30-45 m), and it is not clear whether this episode will evolve to the same heights as previous episodes. Continuous overflows from the vents began yesterday, October 16, just before 6 a.m. HST and transitioned into episode 55 fountains at 3:19 a.m. HST this morning. The current forecast is for winds are blowing from the north-northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the south-southwest direction from Halemaʻumaʻu.
edit: The USGS has called the official start of Episode 55 as starting at 03:19 HST Oct 17, 2026:
Alert Level: WATCH, Color Code: ORANGE 2026-10-17 13:43:56 UTC
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice
Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE
Issued: Saturday, October 17, 2026, 3:43 AM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H488
Location: N 19 deg 25 min W 155 deg 17 min
Elevation: 4091 ft (1247 m)
Area: Hawaii
Summary: Episode 55 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 3:19 AM HST on October 17, 2026.
Volcanic Activity:
Episode 55 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 3:19 AM HST on October 17, 2026.
Fountain heights are relatively low at about 100-150 feet (30-45 m), and it is not clear whether this episode will evolve to the same heights as previous episodes. Continuous overflows from the vents began yesterday, October 16, just before 6 a.m. HST and transitioned into episode 55 fountains at 3:19 a.m. HST this morning. The current forecast is for winds are blowing from the north-northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the south-southwest direction from Halemaʻumaʻu.
- All eruptive vents and lava flows are confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Tephra fall from volcanic ash clouds is greatest within 3 miles (5 km) of the vents, lighter ash and Pele's Hair may stay suspended for large distances from the vents.
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Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
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Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
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Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
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An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
No. Bring in someone new.
Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...No. Bring in someone new.
Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)
Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.
Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.
It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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