[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Robert Meuser]

Terrestrial repeaters do not work that way. A receiver can be receiving 
some of the bits from the repeater and some from the bird.  Either you 
are on everything or on nothing.

R


Xen Scott wrote:

> At 11:42 AM 09/28/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>> Do XM and Sirius even have the bandwidth to offer local radio into 
>>> local markets?
>>
>
>> This is why I stressed using the Local Repeater system.  In most 
>> major markets, both SatCasters use terrestrial repeaters to "fill in" 
>> for the times the Satellite isn't 'visible' by the receivers.  
>> Limiting to the local market could be as simple as gettign the feed 
>> to the terrestrial repeater, and assigning it a channel there, and 
>> the national feed just goes on as normal.
>
>
> The technology of getting the local source to the terrestrial repeater 
> could be the challenge.
> The question is whether it's possible to go directly to the repeater 
> or whether it is necessary
> to back-haul the source to some central control point so it could be 
> uplinked to the satellite
> and then down to the local market.
>
> I would think the distribution would have to be done the same way as 
> Directv and Dish Network.
> They use a severely compressed back-haul and uplink to satellite.  If 
> local radio is only
> carried on the terrestrial repeater, then it would seem to be 
> necessary to implement a
> means of switching back and forth between over-the-air traditional 
> broadcast reception and
> the terrestrial repeater.  That adds a level of complexity that may 
> make it impractical.
> The other question is whether path reliability is sufficient when the 
> choice is between
> traditional terrestrial broadcast frequencies, particularly AM, and a 
> terrestrial repeater
> on a satellite frequency.  It would be interesting to know what 
> percentage of the time a
> typical XM or Sirius receiver is using the direct satellite signal 
> versus the signal from
> a terrestrial repeater, especially outside of big city "canyon" areas.
>
> Xen Scott    
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