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Topic: DCDC satellite distribution for a single screen
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Jack Ondracek
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From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 08-14-2019 08:12 PM
I'm not sure this isn't just me, being seriously old-school, but...
I've been dragging my feet on this because they want to put their dish on top of my snack bar, right in the middle of the roof, visible to everyone. My roof is flat, so there's no way to conceal it without building a "beauty fence" (!) around the thing.
I don't want anyone to get the idea that I'm just playing HBO for $10 a person, even if it's clearly not true.... to me, at least. So, I pay the extra $20 per DCP. In the end, I'm paying not to have to deal with an image I don't want to project, but there you are.
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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-16-2019 10:13 AM
quote: Jack Ondracek
I've been dragging my feet on this because they want to put their dish on top of my snack bar, right in the middle of the roof, visible to everyone. My roof is flat, so there's no way to conceal it without building a "beauty fence" (!) around the thing.
You don't HAVE to put it on the roof. We brought in DCDC early in the spring of 2018. They came out and did a site survey and said they would mount it to my metal roof with screws. I said, "you're not going to penetrate a perfectly good metal roof for a satellite dish". Our other option they gave me was to "mast mount" the dish on a pole 10 feet away from the building.
What we ended up doing was trenching a conduit run 140 feet away from the building up on top of a hill behind the concessions stand. We ran 2" conduit from the building in the trench up to the top of the hill and terminated it with a PVC weather head. I had a 4'-0 x 4'-0" x 4'-0" hole dug on top of the hill for the satellite dish mounting pole and filled it full of concrete. The pole to mount the dish on is a 2 1/2" dia. RIGID metal conduit pipe.
On the building end, we used a 2" long sweep radius bend to come out of the ground and then used an 2" LB fitting to go thru the concrete block wall.
We had all of that done before the DCDC installation guy showed up. He told me that ours was one of the easiest he'd done because we had already done the hard part ourselves.
If you use Google Earth, you can see where we trenched from the building to the top of the hill. The satellite imagery from Google Earth doesn't show the dish yet. Looking on the Bing Maps aerial imagery you can see the satellite dish up on the hill.
We only have two screens, so we don't really need a TMS system. Both of my GDC servers are linked to a Gigabit switch that the DCDC catch server is also linked to. We can ingest from CRU, USB, DVD, DCDC, or the opposite screen server. It's all done via a touch panel on the back of the projector rack.
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