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KHBS, FT. Smith, AR and KHOG, Rogers, AR will be combining much of their operations into the new and improved location in Rogers, AR this fall.

EASi was contracted by Hearst to work with the stations from the onset to help develop a plan for making best use of new and existing satellite equipment that would be required to bring the new operation online.

The project kicked off awhile ago with the installation of a single EASi 4.5 meter HD antenna system to boost the reception abilities for KHOG in Rogers.

After a second stage where several existing antennas were transported from the KHBS facility in Ft. Smith, the project was set into full motion with the final integration of those transported antennas and a compliment of new ones.

The transported antennas were upgraded to include new drive and wiring packages as well as upgraded feed motors and antenna controller software to allow integration into a new Compusat satellite automation package.

The upgrades will significantly improve the reliability of the aging Patriot antennas that were moved from Ft. Smith allowing them to be phased in to the automation system.

3 new EASi 4.5 meter fixed antenna packages were also provided and installed at this stage.

2 were configured for ABC network acquisition with Seavey 2 port C band feeds configured with Norsat +/- 5 kHz LNBs and MFC TI filters.

A third 4.5 meter package was installed as well for reception of CW programming.

The 3 new 4.5 meter packages were all configured with full back active 208 3 phase de ice systems as well

Also provided in this stage was a fixed 3.7 meter Prodelin antenna package for use in receiving a host of data carriers off of a single satellite.

The 3.7 meter package was configured with a Clearsat snow cover but full active de ice was an option on this antenna as well.

While some of the existing antennas were already configured with RF runs of copper, the new RF runs were all L band fiber.

Evertz equipment was chosen and was provided and installed by EASi for the project.

To complete the installation, the motorized antennas were programmed to include the full domestic satellite arc and all other antennas were aimed and brought online.