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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