News up links on C-band

[lanmarc]

Are there any news up links or blind feeds like reporters out in the field on C-band, like there is on Ku bank. Thanks Lanmarc

[wejones]

Originally Posted by lanmarc

Are there any news up links or blind feeds like reporters out in the field on C-band, like there is on Ku bank. Thanks Lanmarc

Yes, but there are much more of this type thing on Ku, mainly because the little news trucks that go out into the field to get stories carry Ku dishes, not C-band dishes. I'd think that most stuff you'd see on C band would be recordings from station to network & visa versa. The live stuff is mainly on Ku, unless relayed to station first.... I think.

[lanmarc]

I do watched the Ku band news feeds and in the background sometimes I see big news trucks with large C-band dishes. I have not been able to track down there transponders. I remember in the mid 80s darning the first golf war, there were many live news feeds from around the world on C-band satellites. Where have they all gone?

[wejones]

Originally Posted by lanmarc

I do watched the Ku band news feeds and in the background sometimes I see big news trucks with large C-band dishes. I have not been able to track down there transponders. I remember in the mid 80s darning the first golf war, there were many live news feeds from around the world on C-band satellites. Where have they all gone?

Of course when you watched something over the US on C-band during the gulf war, that wasn't coming directly from Saudi Arabia. I have no idea of what they were actually using to uplink from the gulf area, other than the little umbrella sized dishes that they were using at the front lines, but they had to relay those feeds via sats over the atlantic, then they were re-broadcast over conus sats.

I don't know to what extent they may have trucks with C-band capability, but my guess would be that most would be Ku. I can't see small local channels investing in a truck with a 15' dish on top. Now a network truck covering a big event, perhaps. A while back, someone posted either here or on satforums, a list of the CBS and NBC news-feed transponders, and they were all Ku.

I still see live newsfeeds on C-band, but I think the odds are that they are re-broadcansts, rather than coming directly from a remote location. Also, there are still a few analog feeds, and you'll often find them on C-band, but for the most part most of what I've seen on C-band has been studio to studio stuff, like inside interviews, and/or re-broadcasts, rather than remote feeds.

But this is all just assumptions on my part.

But your mentioning the first gulf war reminded me that I still have hours of stuff recorded on VCR tape from that. My favorite, was from the CNN feeds, when there would be hours of pictures of a chair with no-one there, because they would come on the air quickly if there was a skud attack or some other news, but the reporters were apparently back in the room sleeping. Well one night, they were apparently supposed to interview some Saudi official, but no-body showed up... no official, no reporters... so the camera crew made a couple little Mr Bill type dolls, and sat them on these big chairs as if they were interviewing each other, then they made fake sounds as if there was a skud attack, and used cigarette smoke to make it look like they were coming under attack. That was one of the funniest things I've seen on newsfeeds. I think I still have that tape somewhere, but my VCR broke a couple years ago, so I'm not sure I can play it anymore.