SatcoDX - TELE-satellite International Magazine
SatcoDX - TELE-satellite International Magazine
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COMPANY REPORT<br />
Uplink Station Teleippica, Italy<br />
From DXer to Technical Manager<br />
A Visit with Mario Sussi from Teleippica<br />
in Lucca (Toscana), Italy<br />
Betting on horse racing is a popular pastime<br />
in Italy. This is due in large part to<br />
Teleippica unifying the horse betting system<br />
and reorganizing the network across all of<br />
Italy. Teleippica in charge for transmission<br />
on behalf of UNIRE’s four channels<br />
of which two, UNIRE TV “gray” and UNIRE<br />
TV “green”, are the actual betting chan-<br />
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nels and, with the publication of this issue<br />
of <strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>satellite</strong>, a third channel, UNIRE<br />
TV “blue”, will have started. There’s also<br />
the SNAI-TV channel that broadcasts other<br />
sports betting events as well as a summary<br />
of all broadcasts that is produced with a 15minute<br />
delay for Sky Italia and offered in<br />
their Pay TV package.<br />
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Mario Sussi in his favorite place: among his <strong>satellite</strong><br />
dishes. The large dish in the background is the<br />
6.0-meter uplink antenna pointed to EUTELSAT W2 at<br />
16 east. The small 100cm SNAI dish receives the SNAI<br />
signal that is then combined with the HOTBIRD signal in<br />
their local network. In the background to the left are the<br />
microwave antennas for the terrestrial signal network:<br />
“Sometimes it’s cheaper to transmit the horse racing<br />
signals terrestrially, not to mention they are also less<br />
susceptible to rain fade since here they are transmitted<br />
in the 6 GHz range.”<br />
Naturally, sports betting involves live<br />
transmissions. Mario Sussi is responsible<br />
for these complex transmissions.<br />
He spoke to us about his DXer days in<br />
the past, “I tuned into the first <strong>satellite</strong><br />
transmissions in Europe; that was Project<br />
Eurikon back in 1982.” Over the years, his<br />
antenna farm grew larger and larger to