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To: Dr. Harvey who wrote (555)	1/5/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Jeffrey B	Respond to of 1394

It will be nice to read what they have to say. The Micro Planar antenna is still directional, hence a moving dish. There was once a company that was producing a flat antenna that laid flat, horizontally. The satellite signal was received by moving the feedhorn(LNB), which was directly above it. This antenna worked great for C-band applications that wanted to be inconspicuous, and for buildings with a flat roof. I'll have to do some digging. I can't quite remember the company. With the slumping sales in c-band equipment, alot of these companies that did not diversify into digital went of business. This "flat" concept I think could be a viable solution for the multiple receiver situation, maybe having a feedhorn that can focus and recieve signals from two different satellites simultaneously..I'm sure that someone will step up and have a better solution to this "problem" soon enough.. Yeah, interfacing with the receiver will have to be addressed as well. I think that if they would use the "auxilary" jack with all of their products, this would be a connection to the data bus in the receiver and allows for an easy interface for any external, programmable devices.. - Jeff