I believe it has been tried at Lime Rock with limited success.
I'm not sure why it is not currently used.
Matt Murray
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glen E. Thompson <glen.thompson@worldnet.att.net>
To: 'Matt Murray' <mattm@optonline.net>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:17 PM
Subject: RE: Satellite Transmission was: SCCA Valvoline Runoffs
>
>Matt -
>
>Why not use a balloon to fly the antenna for the in car cameras? I
>wouldn't think that you would need much more than a couple hundred
feet
>altitude at mid-Ohio to get full track coverage. Seems like it would
make
>a good backup plan in the case of bad weather like we had.
>
>glen
>================================
>Glen E. Thompson
>glen.thompson@worldnet.att.net
>'89 Mazda RX-7 GTUs
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: owner-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Matt Murray
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 2:29 PM
>To: Rocky Entriken
>Cc: autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Satellite Transmission was: SCCA Valvoline Runoffs
>
>
>Rocket is darn close. Signals come from the RF mobile camera(s). Then
>to the plane/helicopter/blimp/arial device which returns the signal
to
>a ground based receiver for the production truck. The truck then
>switches all cameras/audio feeds, adds graphics, etc. and sends it to
>a satellite truck. The satellite truck sends it to the "bird" and the
>bird sends it back down to an earth station. Our earthstation, which
>is about 4 miles from our main facility, then sends the signal to our
>master control (my home away from home). FWIW our earthstation sends
>out all of CBS' national feeds, A&E, History Channel, Discovery
People
>and in two weeks, the NBA channel. Once the signal feed is in the
>master control/playback, we do the commercial insertion, news
>"squeezeback" at :15 and :45, and the like, it goes back to the
>earthstation, up to the bird (Satcom C4, transponder 11), and back
>down to your 1 meter dish, cable system AND DirecTV. DirecTV then
>sends the signal back up once more, so that those subscribers can see
>it. We have a DirecTV monitor in the playback and it is about two
>seconds from the time it leaves the switcher to the time it airs on
>DirecTV.
>
>There will be a quiz on this tomorrow, so I need you all to study
>hard. :^)
>
>Matt Murray
>
>mailto:mattm@optonline.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rocky Entriken
>>I think the copter/blimp takes the signal from the car and sends it
>back to
>>the ground, to the trailer. Like all the other cameras around the
>track, all
>>the signals go to the trailer and the director decides what goes out
>over
>>the air. That one (perhaps more than one) is what goes to the
>satellite, and
>>then to you (not sure if it is direct to you, or by way of the
>Network's
>>home base first -- maybe either or both depending on the logistics
of
>the
>>particular event).
>>--Rocky
>>
>>
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