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Hi Alan and readers,
To bring you all up to speed and clear up the gross misinformation
provided by Sam Silverstein, the author of that reprinted Internet
bulletin...
To begin with, satellite radio has existed hand in hand with satellite TV
and comm links ever since NASA launched the first COMSAT. At first none
of it was available to the home consumer, only to the networks. In many
cases it still is only a network link to the local broadcast stations.
As time and technology progressed it became available in the home via the
familiar BUD, that big ugly dish and receiver and still is. It is encoded
and rides piggyback on the TV channels via a number of subcarriers on
each transponder. The availability of a wide range of programming is
nothing new, you just have to know where to find it. You'll find
everything from the shortwave stations like the BBC to news services, a
plethora of music genres and so forth.
The dream all along has been a mobile service now a reality thanks to
fractal antennas no bigger than a postage stamp easily concealed in the
vehicle which makes for a nice, neat installation acceptable to the owner
of that fancy sports car or top of the line Mercedes Benz.
As for how it works, just the same as any Internet "radio station", all
neatly automated with programming on hard drive. The familiar DJ is long
gone, now you'll find voice artists recording sound bites in a booth and
an engineer using digital recording and automation systems in a
production studio. All of it done on Audiovault or some other production
software, not one bit of it resembles the continuous flow you hear but
rather it's compiled by the on line computer, the mechanical robot DJ.
For what it's worth, any of you can operate such a "radio station" on the
Internet, there are plenty of slots open on the "networks" such as Real
One and Live365. All you need is a sound or music library, software and a
computer, and of course an Internet connection, preferably broadband so
you have some bandwidth left over for yourself. (;->)
No, these new satellite radio subscription (and some open) services are
nothing new, just gone mobile.
Just to toss in one of my all too familiar gripes, (;->) this is the sort
of crap you get for putting Internet rubbish on packet. It's loaded with
misinformation due to the poor composition and editing coupled with
agenda. In this last case the agenda is a poorly disguised advertizement
for sat radio aimed at the ignorant who fall for such commercialism. Now
please don't be offended by my calling you ignorant, so many of us are
simply because we don't know the history and development of satellite
communications in this case. In others it's the same situation, everybody
is ignorant of something, I don't expect you all to have a PHd in rocket
science. Bear in mind that the cure for ignorance is education, so with a
bit of background information you can see through the deception and come
out the wiser.
No, I'm not an expert, I'm an ex spurt, now I spray. (;->)
Oh BTW, do any of you remember the name of that first satellite? Sure you
do, the Chantays had a song about it, TELSTAR! (;->)
73 de Warren, KB2VXA@WT3V.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
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