[samhevener]

I would like to ask a basic question on the local station upinks. I see locations sucha as Mount Jackson and others as being the locations of the Disk local station uplink locations. How many total uplink station locations are there and what states are they located in? How are the local TV station signals transmitted to the luplink locations, microwave, fiber optic cable, etc. Thanks, Sam

 

[rp3259]

Interesting question. One would there would be 1 uplink center per DMA market carried by E. In my DMA one station serves as that uplink. All stations in the DMA carried by E are sent to that local station for uplink.

 

[SamC]

Its defined in the law (SHVIA). Each provider designates a local "POP". It is the local stations responsibility to get the signal to the "POP" and the DBS company has to take it from there. In most places one of the local stations will be the "POP" so the engineers can push the reset button if it breaks down. Sometimes they use a radio station or other business.

In a traditional market, where all of the stations are in one city, its no big deal, but in markets like Roanoke-Lynchburg, Huntington-Charleston, or Orlando-Daytona Beach it can cause the local station(s) to expend money to get a signal there.

 

[kenglish]

"POP" is Local "Point of Presence".

Local feeds come in via OTA, Fiber Optic, microwave, and even satellite, and are encoded to Digital, then combined and fed via fiber optic to the satellite uplink centers, like Cheyenne and Gilbert, Arizona.

 

[BobaBird]

The other uplink centers (Monee, IL; New Braunfels, TX; Mt. Jackson, VA; Spokane, WA; Blackhawk, SD & Orange, NJ) are for the spot beams on the E-10 satellite at 110°. Dish's Tech Depot page describes operations of the Cheyenne uplink center.

 

[James Long]

A brief look at all of the uplink centers can be found on this page:
http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/techmiscupli.shtml

 

[kenglish]

Thanks, I had forgotten where those new mini-uplinks were going.