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The roof of one of the buildings has dozens (and I do mean dozens) of domestic dishes, if you look on Google Maps you can spot them as 8 rows of grey lumps (the giveaway is their angle of course). They are there to provide 'real world' reception conditions for the r&d set top box 'zoo'.
I drove to the uplink site to have a look around in preparation for my interview (See above). I think the whole of the Chilworth site was some sort of science park in conjunction with Southampton Uni? Different now of course, I still drive by it occasionally and my wife goes to a health club based there.
There's an interesting episode of IBA Engineering Announcements about their uplink site for BSB at Chilworth in Hampshire.
The site is still operational, but is owned by Sky now, it's their main uplink site (possibly some downlinking too) and also houses some playout and DR facilities.
The site is still operational, but is owned by Sky now, it's their main uplink site (possibly some downlinking too) and also houses some playout and DR facilities.
The roof of one of the buildings has dozens (and I do mean dozens) of domestic dishes, if you look on Google Maps you can spot them as 8 rows of grey lumps (the giveaway is their angle of course). They are there to provide 'real world' reception conditions for the r&d set top box 'zoo'.
I drove to the uplink site to have a look around in preparation for my interview (See above). I think the whole of the Chilworth site was some sort of science park in conjunction with Southampton Uni? Different now of course, I still drive by it occasionally and my wife goes to a health club based there.
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