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Step-by-Step
Guide
Receiving the Channel satellite broadcast on
your own requires certain equipment,
including a receiver
and a satellite dish. You will be tuning
and authorizing your equipment with our help, then licensing the
Channel to tell us who you are. Once that’s done,
you’ll have an impressive array of rights to
all our programming. If you use our workshops
or courses,
we’ll
also ask you to register for
them—but again, they’re
free, like the Channel itself.
Equipment
1. Equipment: receiver: A DigiCipher II
DSR ("digital satellite receiver") from General Instrument/NextLevel
Systems, Inc. is required to receive the digital Ku-band feed.
The Annenberg Channel’s signal cannot be received
by a 4DTV receiver, or other equipment that receives only
signals in the MCPC mode. If your agency does not already
have the necessary model of DigiCipher, we encourage you to
contact us for vendor information. We do not sell the equipment,
but we may be able to steer you in the right direction.
Equipment: satellite dish. You will need a Ku-band
satellite dish. The Annenberg Channel’s signal cannot
be received by a C-band dish or small home-satellite dishes,
like those used by EchoStar or DIRECTV. If you are installing
a dish for the first time in order to receive our channel,
please feel free to call us. We may be able to give you some
preliminary guidance.
- To contact the Channel about equipment, call 1-800-228-8030,
ext. 2.
Tuning and authorization. Here
is our satellite and signal information:
- AMC-3 (GE-3) satellite, located at 87° WL
- Ku-band transponder 23 (horizontal downlink)
- Satellite frequency: 12150.75 MHz
- L-band frequency: 1400.75 MHz
- DigiCipher II IRD, Channel 514
Before you tune in the Channel for the first time, we need
to hear from you with the "serial number" and the "unit address"
of your DigiCipher DSR. The one-time process of giving us
this information, thereby allowing us to feed it into the
satellite transmission, is called the "authorization" of
your DigiCipher DSR. It is a necessary step required by the
nature of the signal to allow the satellite to communicate
with your receiver. You may read the tuning instructions for
your specific model of DigiCipher DSR by selecting your model
below. If you can not read or print the instructions, please
call us for a faxed copy.
General Instruments
DSR-4200 and DSR 4200 C IRD Models
General
Instruments DSR-4200V and 5200
General
Instruments DSR-4200B
Motorola
DSR-406M
Motorola DSR-406MN
Motorola DSR-4400X and 4402X
Motorola DSR-4500X
Motorola DSR-4410
If you do not have one of these models or if you are using
the DSR 4000 or 4001, please call 1-800-228-8030,
ext. 2.
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