ocToBER15,1986 I E '*ltr#F]*'^.,*.. *s - TrsH-aoTERREgTRTAL |ilTqRFEREI{CE TSG.s TICROWAVESWEEP GEI{ERATOR SURVEYHORI{ A highlydirectional,high gain DigitalLED Gadoutto accuratelydetermine hom for quickand accuratesite surveys with frequency,sw6€ps 3.7 to 4.2 GHz to band- the PSA-35and any LNA. $1? widthsless than ono MHzat any centerfre- quencybetwe€n 3.7 and 4.2 GHz. $1087 MSG-1750MICROWAVE SW€EP GEN- ERATORSweeps trequencies inthe9S0to 17S0 MHzBlock Downconversion band. LED read- out, can be usedwith PSA-3sAto specifyTl filters. $995 IFSG-7oIIICROWAVE SWEEP GENERATOR Sweepf requenciesf rom 50 - 90MHz lrequency canbeaccurately r€ad on adigitalLED display. PORTABLE SPECTRUT ANALY:ZER $qll AVCOM'3NEWAND IMPROVEDPSA-3sA AVCOM's new PSA-35A portabte Spectruryl Analyzer teatures increasedvertical sensitivity with front panel selection of either 2 dB/Div or 10 dB/Div operation. Wb have also made fre. quency selectionmore efticientwith a new 12S0 to 1750 band select position. The addition of these features produces a major increase in versatility with no increase in cost. The pSA- 35A is lightweight, portable, and can be oper- ated from itsown internal,rechargeable, gel-cel batteries,or 110 Vac. The frequency coverage ofthe PSA-35Ais from lessthan 10to over 1750 CKA-I2 MICROWAVEFLANGE AOAPTER FoT MHz, and from 3.7 to 4.2 GHz in 6 bands C to Ku bandwaveguidethe CKA-12 allowsthe (includingcurrent 12 GHz LNB's). use of larger C band waveguidecomponents SCPC.500SNGLE CHAI{NEL PER CARRIER The new and improvedAVCOM PSA-35APort- such as feedhorns, transitions, etc:..with Ku lF PROCESSORBlock conv€rts all signalson able SpectrumAnalyzer is the most economical band LNA'Sand LNC'S. 387.00 transponders1 through24 to an int€rm€diate and cost effectiveanswer to your satellitecom- frequencyof 50 to 550 MHz.An extremely munication equipment installationproblems. lt stablemicrowav€ oscillator and phaselock€d will soon become indispensablefor measuring loopvirtually eliminate drifi. $1245 and documenting system performance,accur- ate and rapid testing, alignment, and precise TerrestrialInterference identitication. Installersof new or retrofit dual feed C/Ku band and single feed Ku band systemsknow that Ku band instaliations require extremely accurate COT{6T RACKTOUNT INTERI{ATPilAL SCPGMS|I{GTE CHANNELPER CARRIER dishtracking. lf thedishisoff onlya fractionota RECEIVERSp€cial options r€sult in a block RECEIVERA compl€te,profsssional rack degree it can mean the difference between a downconversionroceiver offering th€ ultimate mounting4 GHzinput, baseband audioordata terrible (or no) signaland an excellentone. Your andsp€cializ€d intemational gatellite r€ception output receiver,ths AVCOMSCPG2om is th€ PSA-3sAis both C and Ku band comoatibteand requirements.Triple lF filters are standard. mostreliable and cost €fl€ctive SCPC receiver is perfect the instrument tor the critical dish 31189 on the mark€ttoday. $1E75 alignmentand tracking requirementsnecessary for maximum satellitesignal reception.91065 URLA-1tllt0 - AVCOM's Uniform Resoonse LineAmplitier is a carefullydesigned line amplF fier having excellent trequency response over afl bfock downconverterfrequencies lrom 270 SATELLITEDICEST Too, 1/csD/1o.86 ocToBER15, 1986 PRES9STOP/Late Breaking News. 2 VERTICALinterest networki ng, cooPscoMMENTS........ 4 the craft of creating specialized VERTICALlNTEREST NETWORKS...... 6 program'networksfor groupsof SURVEY/Where DealersStand With Videocipher..... 8 people who share a common interest(such as coincollecting/ investment)receives our atten- tion this month.We can create ourown'marketsbyfocusing our energieson specificgroups of Americans And sell plenty of hardwarein the process SURVEY. We conducted a dealersurvey at the recentNash- villetrade show to find out more aboutdealer attitudes regarding theselling of scrambledservices AUSTRALIN Patt3 of our South Pacific Report. .. 13 Our programguide publications GETRICH/ Be A CableOperator (part 3). ........... 1 s want us to believe'everyoneis GREENSHEETS/ Equipment Bargains .. 2OA behindthe sale of scrambledpro ANTENNAAIMINGREVISITED/,TheRoberts'. ... .21 gramming'.Our Nashvillesurvey, SERVICEBENCH/Alli Lake.. ... ... .. 2s involvingmore than 125 dealerg CORRESPONDENCE .. 27 suggeststhis is not so. TRANSPONDERWATCH....... ......... 30 AUSTRALIA Not the TVRO market it once was; perhaps neverto be a good marketagain. Scramblingis part problem of the OUR R/ Tl-Buster asyou will see. In our'Be COVE Marina A Cable Albee apes a familiar'Ghost- Operato/ serieswe look further buste/ posture in midtown at the mechanicsof the cable Manhattan.Marina is VP headendand spell out how you of designthe provide KennySchaffeds Orbita Tech- headendto nologies cable related Gorporation which security. specializesin providing GREEN SHEETS. Rus- Please sian TV connections for rememberthat as a US CSD sub universitiesand colleges via scriberyou areentitled to a'free' satellite.Ghostbusters is ap Green Sheets advertisement pearing year part your on Cinemaxand Selec- each as a of sub TV scription package. tnis month,while Marinais Turn now to busy preparing our centersection. lobster for Kenny. Photocredits to BethSchiffer. COOPS SATELLITE DIGEST published on the | 5th ol each month, dated for the current monlh byCSD, Limite4 aTurks& Caicoscorporation with corporateoftices local€d atTower Plaza.Provid€nciales, Turks& Caicos lslands,British West Indies Under contract an oftic€ is maintainod in Fort Lauderdale,Fl. (P.O. Box 1OO858, Fort Laudcrdalo, Fl. 3331 O; 305/771 o5o5) for the contracted purpose of pro cooP's cessing all subscriptions, advertising orderq receipt of all mail and corr€spon- denc€. All communications relative to CSD operations should be direct€d to this office. CSD, Limit€d also maintains an equipm€nt t€sting laboratory for satellite receiving systems and components in the Turks & Caicos lslands. CSD routinely reportson th€ technical performanceofequipment both privatelyand in print CSD SATELLITE .; alsoparticipatesintheoperationol'testtube lowpowerradioandt€l€visionbroa4 casting stations and a rural ar€a cable TV system as an ongoing res€arch project '', into the challenge of bringing modern communication s€ruicos to thirdworl4 und€veloped regionsCSD!ubscrlptlon rltcsare$60 lorl 2 issueswh€re U.S.zip DTGEST1#I codesapply,$65 in UStunds inCanadaand Mexicoand$75 in USfundselsewhere. All nofrUS copi€s ares€ntviaAlRmaiL CSD has be€n published €ach month since October ot 1 979 and publish€r Bob Cooper created lhe home TVRO industry in 1978. Sinole copies are $6 in US and $7 elsewhere. Bob Cooper, Jr. is publisher, CSD is copyrighted by CSO, Limited in the Turks and Caicos lslands and USA S.cond Clas! poltlgc plld at Ft Laud€rdale, Fl. Application to mail at second class postag€ ral€s is p€nding at Ft Laud€rdale, Fl. Direct dial tslephone to CSD, Limited is 809/946-4273 bul be warned; this is an exp€nsiv€ t€l€phone call! -----------------_i PAGE2/CSD/10-86 SATELLITEDICEST STOP.PRESS Late News At Deadlins '.rtttF VIDEOCIPHERis broken, but not by anyone you have heard about on nationalIonal teTetTsitelevr.ston ieport appearing rn newly ffiAXNewS1etter(305/11I-0505).Severa19roupshave busted sysLem using unrelated Lechniques involving software only (U7) lechniques. Likely next step: Off (U30) a.t-Asoftwarefhardware 'loaders' shore (only) manufacture and dist.r:jbutjon of cloned chip (workrng-Tfrrough U30) and complete wor.'k-a1i.ke descrambl-ers original from chassis-u[. pricr.ng? rn iegion of $300 to $1'000 depending upon 'f ix'. SENATE DEFEAT (vote z 54-44\ of amendment to force more equi.table markeETng-oE-Gatelt jte programmi.ng to home djshes was drsappol-ntment to i.ndusiry; new effort now planned for 1987. SPACEwas noL pleased wj.Lh loss buL delighted with nearness of vote which they say indrca- tes strength of griss-root efforLs involved in legislatron- Cable TV industry expected home d j.sh would garner no more than 20 voLes i was surprj.sed aL strength of 44 votes. plans sLart daLe from Galaxy 3 of -------_----:---PRIME-TIME 24 sli.fl November brg marKer Chi.cago, Atlanta) net-work channels. .but very tn6-york, ' jn 1rn1iXely to start November lst as hoped. Service plans Lo r:un clear, ior two weeks, transmit 800 number (Videocipher) order rnfor- mati.on on sub-carrjer. A11 3 services wiII be on same polarjzaLron. FIRST-RUN movie serv|ce (Sl-, TR9) has been experi encing problems with-lldi.vjdual addressi.ng portlon of encoder/decoder sysLem. They jn use Sony encryption Lechnology and have been running equivilent of ' f l.xed keyl many ni ghts al lowing f ul1 access Lo al l movi.es by any subscrjber payrng for one movje. spACE MERGERwit-h DBSA movi.ng ahead swif L1y, smoothly. Mechanrcs of merger-fatling jnto place after DBSA board vot-ed 7-0 ln favori SpACE financi.al debt down Lo $162,000 (and falling) on October 6. COMSAT, US representatrve t-o Inlelsat and former producer of home rt.ish svsrems lemplica) tryjng to acquire natjon's 3rd largesL tele- phone company, CONTEL. Deat is worth $2.68 and would change char- acter of COMSATsigni.ficanLly. Legal hurdles ahead. j SPACE SHUTTLEmini.f est just reLeasedi only def ense and scient'i f c _,rrggror]at-erwithonesignificantexcepti.on;RCAhas payloads untr "p1.. r.n first (February l-B) tgBB flight' apparently for Ku-3 bjrd. j.n Shuttte hopes for 5 flights in 1988, 16 1989. In peri.od BB-95, ontv 1?z of flighLs wj l1 carry commercjal (non-milrtary, scjentifjc) birds. This leaves mosL commercial bird launchers scrambling to frnd launch capacity such an Arjane, PRC's