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- OBJECT TYPE
- parabolic
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2000.0014.005
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Bell ExpressVu
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 5
- Total Parts
- 13
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ALL METAL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- 4.7 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 50.0 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Communications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- UNUSED - BUT GENERALLY LATE 1990'S TO EARLY 2000'S
- Canada
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CANADA WAS PIONEER IN DIRECT-TO-HOME SATELLITE TV TECHNOLOGY, BEGINNING WITH EXPERIMENTS WITH HERMES & ANIK SATELLITES IN LATE 1970'S. FIRST DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE LICENSE ISSUED BY CDN GOV'T WAS TO BELL EXPRESSVU IN LATE 1995. EXPRESSVU 4700 IS KU BAND RECEIVER TYPICAL OF TYPE AVAILABLE IN CANADA. - Function
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SYSTEM WHICH ENABLED DIRECT-TO-HOME TRANSMISSION OF SATELLITE TELEVISION SIGNALS. IT WAS USED TO RECEIVE & AMPLIFY DIGITAL SIGNALS RECEIVED FROM SATELLITE IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT, & DECODE & CONVERT DIGITAL INPUT INTO ANALOG OUTPUT FOR VIDEO DISPLAY & AUDIO SYSTEM. - Technical
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EXPERIMENTS WITH HERMES & ANIK SATELLITES PROVED IT WAS FEASIBLE TO TRANSMIT TELEVISION TO ANTENNAS AS SMALL AS 0.6 M, USING POWERFUL AMPLIFIERS & KU BAND. FIRST WIDESPREAD USE OF SATELLITES FOR TELEVISON TRANSMISSION INVOLVED LESS EFFECTIVE C BAND WITH DISHES OF 10-12 FT IN DIAM. IN 1980'S. DBS SYSTEM OF 1990S OPERATED IN KU BAND & COMPRESSED DIGITAL SIGNALS RATHER THAN ANALOGUE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON FRONT READING "Bell/ ExpressVu"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- PAINTED GREY
- Decoration
- BLACK BELL EXPRESSVU LOGO ON FRONT
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Unknown Manufacturer, Antenna, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2000.0014, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2000.0014.005/
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