I installed all of the satellite dishes shown here, some with the help of my friends at Austin Crane Service. I designed and built all ofthe high-pole mounts, as well as the microwave link tripods.

This 3.8 meter Patriot dish was used for digital Warner Brothers feeds for ch. 54  It has a stationary
AZ-EL mount and is supported by a Baird Non-Penetrating roof mount.

There was some intermitant interference on the frequencies used by WB so we built a shield to resolve the problem

In 2006 WB merged with UPN to create the new CW network.  Unfortunately, now programming was being fed on 3 satellites and there was just no more room on the roof.  The solution was a triple dual-feed.  A little gain is sacrifised with this arrangement but the dish had that to spare and it worked like a charm.

This 3.8 Meter Patriot dish has the ability to track inclined-orbit satellites and is used primarily for
the NBC High Definition digital feed.  KXAN was the first station in Austin to transmit in High Definition.
If you have a high definition TV with a hi-definition digital (8VSB) tuner  you can get them on broadcast channel 21.  The slack seen in the cables is needed to accomodate the way the feedhorn rotates.




This 3.7 meter Prodelin is used for NBC feeds



This is a 2.4 meter DH spun aluminum dish for CONUS feeds.


This 7.5 ft. mesh dish is used for weather data


This little guy talks to his brother across the street.  It is a good way to tie together 2 computer networks without wires.



That is Austin's first local Doppler radar on top and various microwave links under it.  I get to play on this tower a lot.

And last but not least, here is the tallest camera in town.  It is mounted 700 feet up on the KXAN transmission tower.  At about 1200 feet, this is the tallest "skyscraper" in Austin.  I had the pleasure of taking this down for repair and then reinstalling it.  The white thing at the bottom of this picture is a microwave transmitter which beams the images from the camera to the studio on MLK Blvd.  I also installed a similar camera for KXAN on the roof of the 301 Congress building downtown, and another microwave transmitter like this one.  At that location I also put up 3 wide beam microwave receive systems that they point their van mounted mobile transmitters at.  One more, smaller microwave transmitter there relays those van originated signals to the studio.  Using this technique they can broadcast a live interview with someone standing in front of the capitol, or most anywhere else in town.