The following was just posted by the FCC about the future of C Band.
Bad News for C Band from the FCC
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This will never fly. The bidders for the spectrum will never agree to pay for the retrofit of the earth stations with the needed filters and associated equipment.
If they have to transition, I think it most likely that they'll transition to IP rather than Ku. Ku's susceptibility to weather is just too much for 24/7/365 and that can't be readily overcome with bigger equipment.
Not to mention the cost of building NEW satellites, and the costs of getting them into orbit. Which that doc says they will cover...
Yeah, I think there will be some re-writing before this is over.
Doubt any transitional auction settlement monies will find their way into the hobbyists systems, but will be a significant factor for users such as the headend in the sky and groups like the LDS. Plenty of unused spectrum is available on existing birds and renewed opportunities for growth by launching hardware into unused slots.
The worst case scenerio was avoided, a shared spectrum! We know that adjacent frequency interference can be effectively and inexpensively filtered out with the proposed 20MHz band guard. Have several filtered products ready to manufacturer once and if, the deals materialize and / or are finalized...
Existing satellites will not need to be retired or replaced to deal with a reduced spectrum.
The worst case scenerio was avoided, a shared spectrum! We know that adjacent frequency interference can be effectively and inexpensively filtered out with the proposed 20MHz band guard. Have several filtered products ready to manufacturer once and if, the deals materialize and / or are finalized...
Not happy about the effects this will have on 43W/55W/58W/113W/117W at all. There's lots of great feeds and channels on those satellites.
Fortunately, for now at least, NHK World and CGTN muxes are located above 4 GHz.
An even more disturbing effect this is going to have is encouraging more networks to go with fiber distribution only for the MVPDs, and networks that would normally use the C-Band for a backup feed of their live productions are likely going to just go with fiber only instead of the traditional Fiber + C-Band Backup combo that they commonly used before. Hope you guys enjoyed your uncensored, pristine quality awards shows / concerts / sports while they lasted because there's going to be less of them now as they fill up all the empty C-Band transponders used for wildfeeds. If there's even any open slots remaining for wildfeeds on C-Band I'm sure that the cost of transponder time is going to shoot up tremendously which will just further encourage networks to not bother with having a backup feed on satellite.
It looks like Yootoo America is also going to be the first casualty when it comes to the 24/7 linear channels. They're going IP distribution only in May because of this move.
I hope getting to stream your dumb cat videos at placebo speeds on a tiny screen was worth all the high quality, uncensored big screen content that's going to be sacrificed.
Fortunately, for now at least, NHK World and CGTN muxes are located above 4 GHz.
An even more disturbing effect this is going to have is encouraging more networks to go with fiber distribution only for the MVPDs, and networks that would normally use the C-Band for a backup feed of their live productions are likely going to just go with fiber only instead of the traditional Fiber + C-Band Backup combo that they commonly used before. Hope you guys enjoyed your uncensored, pristine quality awards shows / concerts / sports while they lasted because there's going to be less of them now as they fill up all the empty C-Band transponders used for wildfeeds. If there's even any open slots remaining for wildfeeds on C-Band I'm sure that the cost of transponder time is going to shoot up tremendously which will just further encourage networks to not bother with having a backup feed on satellite.
It looks like Yootoo America is also going to be the first casualty when it comes to the 24/7 linear channels. They're going IP distribution only in May because of this move.
I hope getting to stream your dumb cat videos at placebo speeds on a tiny screen was worth all the high quality, uncensored big screen content that's going to be sacrificed.
How could a YooToo distribution transition to IP be the first casualty? This is only the FCC chairman's recommendation with no auctions or negotiations in play.
No Chicken Little... the sky is not falling. LOL
No Chicken Little... the sky is not falling. LOL
You need to be a lot less terse in your statements. This one, at face value, is wrong.
Satellites aren't simple mirrors that bounce the signals back.
Yes they are...same with sd and HD signals...no special transponder required...all happens at the uplink site
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