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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 21 Dec 92 02:57:22 GMT
- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Help: Satellite Earth Station Costs
- Message-ID: <telecom12.913.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 913, Message 7 of 10
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- A company here is setting up their own satellite ground station for
- IBS service from COMSAT (either 4.5 meter in C-band or 3.5 meter at
- Ku-band). This would be an: A, B, C, or E-3 standard earth station.
- The other possibility was that they utilize COMSAT's Datanet service
- and thus use a smaller antenna.
-
- Are these antennas "maintenance proof"? Would they need full-time
- personnel to man the ground station? How much would it cost to
- actually operate one of these ground stations?
-
- Since the price for setting up a 4.5 meter ground station is around
- $70,000, they need to carefully control for *hidden* costs. Feedback
- from operators of large satellite ground stations would be gratefully
- appreciated.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
-
- Josh backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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