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0711 Tony

Tony Di Rienzo has been involved in satellite reception for over 30 years. He erected a 3-meter satellite dish in his backyard in 1988 that he still uses today. Tony tests new satellite receivers for FortecStar by connecting up to six receivers to his antenna system. He is able to receive channels from over 52 satellites using his large dish and motorized antennas located on his roof and in his backyard.

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0711 Tony

Tony Di Rienzo has been involved in satellite reception for over 30 years. He erected a 3-meter satellite dish in his backyard in 1988 that he still uses today. Tony tests new satellite receivers for FortecStar by connecting up to six receivers to his antenna system. He is able to receive channels from over 52 satellites using his large dish and motorized antennas located on his roof and in his backyard.

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SATELLITE DX Portrait

Tony
Di Rienzo

Tony moved his equipment cabinet away from the


wall to show us his cabling. He can connect up to Tony Di Rienzo in his backyard standing next to his 3-meter dish. In front of him
six receivers on his antennas. A 4DTV receiver is one of his 120cm antennas with Stab motor.
functions as a central power supply for the LNBs
and also acts as the positioner for the actuator Tony Di Rienzo should be a familiar name with TELE-satellite readers. In the 03/2006
motor. All additional receivers are connected as issue, TELE-satellite reported on his C-band reception experiments using a small dish. That
slaves via a splitter or DiSEqC switch. report created quite a stir on the satellite scene. We wanted to know what Tony was up to so
we paid him a visit at his house in a suburb erected in his yard back in 1988. What’s so which run on Stab HH120 motors. With these
of Toronto. surprising: “That is still the same dish over he receives his favorite satellites Telstar 12 at
there in the yard!” It still stands and receives 15° west and Atlantic Bird at 12.5° west.
Tony came to Canada from Abruzzo, Italy feeds just like it did back then.
back in 1968. He is a construction installer by Tony, who is married with three kids, is a
trade and this gave him the urge to start build- Even the actuator is almost the original; he real-life tester with Fortec Star. New receiv-
ing. His satellite hobby really began when he upgraded from a VonWeise 18” actuator to a ers are tested by him in real-life situations
was at a friend’s house that had a big dish. “I 24” actuator of the same brand name. The so that flaws can be identified early. “Every
really liked all the sports feeds that I couldn’t larger actuator gave him a turning radius from function in the software must be checked from
get on regular tv”, Tony recalls. He found out 20° west to 137° west: “This lets me receive 52 scratch anytime there is an update”, explains
that there were satellite feeds that allowed satellites”, explains Tony proudly. He also has Tony who enjoys this work. He is looking for-
him to watch all kinds of sporting events. He two additional 120cm antennas installed, one ward to testing the upcoming HD prototype
shelled out CAD $3700 and had a 3-meter dish in his yard and another on his roof, and both of from FortecStar.

Tony can test two receivers by splitting the video inputs of his
Sony TV. In this example he shows us a PAL signal from the Quali
HD receiver in the image to the left. The image to the right shows
the same channel from a Fortec Star receiver using an LNB split-
ter. This allows him to confirm whether or not PAL signals are
Tony performs blind scans using a prototype of the Fortec Star Lifetime Classic with correctly converted into NTSC.
CI; he uses the receiver to the right for his regular channels.

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