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From: jcp@BRL-TGR.ARPA (Joe Pistritto)
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Subject: Re:  UPI news via spread spectrum on TVRO
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 04:54:08 EST
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	Speaking of Equatorial, there is an article in the current
issue of Business Week about the company.  Apparently it has been
selling 2-3 foot dishes (receive only) for a couple years now, using
this encoding scheme mentioned.  UPI was one of the customers mentioned
in the article.  They also have a 4 foot transmit/receive terminal product,
which has somewhat lower bandwith than the conventional satellite uplink
(probably 56Kbps or some such).  No specifics were given, but apparently
the receive-only service is quite popular.  There is a picture of the
President of the company standing atop a disply of 15 or so of the
small dishes, with a large (15 meter) dish in the background (probably
what Equatorial uses to feed the data onto the transponder for the
receive only system).  Really quite neat...

							-JCP-