I do IT support for a number of businesses in my area including an auto dealership.
The dealership had a satellite system set up to communicate with corporate primarily for training. The system is no longer being used and they have been told by corporate to dumpster the equipment. I told them that I'd be happy to take it down for them and they told me if I could use any of it, it was mine.
I'm planning on picking up the equipment and taking down the dish this coming week.
The equipment includes:
1) A dish (either 1.8M or 2.4M) with one of the mounts that uses cinder blocks to hold it in place. From the ground, I'd guess it is 2.4M.
2) An RFU/ODU; A transceiver, since this was a two way application.
3) A Pulsat Server (PES9000); a massive box larger than many computer servers.
4) A Digital Interface Unit (PES5000a/b); the "b" part looks like a regular home satellite receiver; the "a" part looks more like a piece of computer network gear.
5) Cisco 1900; Standard managed network switch
6) Miscellaneous Keypads; Miscellaneous Controller
From what I can Google, the PES is a "Personal Earth Station", a Hughes VSAT system that depending on configuration, can handle two-way data, voice, and/or video applications. The PES5000 has a number of references and some PDFs. The PES9000 doesn't provide many hits, and of those not much was useful.
Of the whole package, the dish is the primary point of interest for me, but I'm curious if anyone has seen one of these systems before. If so, is there anything interesting in the remaining hardware that would have FTA potential?
The dealership had a satellite system set up to communicate with corporate primarily for training. The system is no longer being used and they have been told by corporate to dumpster the equipment. I told them that I'd be happy to take it down for them and they told me if I could use any of it, it was mine.
I'm planning on picking up the equipment and taking down the dish this coming week.
The equipment includes:
1) A dish (either 1.8M or 2.4M) with one of the mounts that uses cinder blocks to hold it in place. From the ground, I'd guess it is 2.4M.
2) An RFU/ODU; A transceiver, since this was a two way application.
3) A Pulsat Server (PES9000); a massive box larger than many computer servers.
4) A Digital Interface Unit (PES5000a/b); the "b" part looks like a regular home satellite receiver; the "a" part looks more like a piece of computer network gear.
5) Cisco 1900; Standard managed network switch
6) Miscellaneous Keypads; Miscellaneous Controller
From what I can Google, the PES is a "Personal Earth Station", a Hughes VSAT system that depending on configuration, can handle two-way data, voice, and/or video applications. The PES5000 has a number of references and some PDFs. The PES9000 doesn't provide many hits, and of those not much was useful.
Of the whole package, the dish is the primary point of interest for me, but I'm curious if anyone has seen one of these systems before. If so, is there anything interesting in the remaining hardware that would have FTA potential?
