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| News Stories and Events December 2003 Archived News Stories 2003 Archived News Stories 2002 |
Wireless Air Show A Big Success
After cutting the red ribbon to open the eighth Dubai International Aerospace Exhibition, Sheikh Mohammed toured the flight line and exhibition visiting many of the five hundred companies from 36 countries who are exhibiting at the four day show. Thousands of visitors from around the world are expected to visit the four day exhibition, the largest ever. Thw show is dominated by the United States with a military delegation headed by a top US Air Force commander and 80 private sector companies. In addition to the opening ceremony, Dubai TV are covering the daily flying displays, which feature a wide range of aircraft from Mirage fighter jets to commercial helicopters. Dubai TV have been covering the bi-annual air show since since the first exhibition in 1989 but this is the first year that Dubai TV have gone digital using two D-Cam Wireless camera systems for coverage of the opening ceremony, exhibition, static display, and the flying displays. In addition Dubai TV have been using a D-Cam 'Clip-on' system for interviews and colour.
The Dubai International Aerospace Exhibition, the third largest show of its kind in the world after Paris and Farnborough is held at the specially built 'Airport Expo' facility, adjacent to Dubai's spectacular international airport. 'Airport Expo' has two huge exhibition halls separated by a central palza. Between them the East and West Halls provide 23,308 square metres of air-conditioned floor space. To cover the two exhibition halls and the static aircfaft display, Dubai TV's links engineers rented in four MVL-D receivers from Broadcast RF to augment their two D-Cam systems. This provided a receive point in each hall plus one on the roof of the West Hall to cover the static external display. A single receive point on the roof of the West Hall was used for the D-Cam 'Clip-on' system. Despite the size of the halls, each containing an aray of exhibits, a single receive site was sufficient to provide perfect coverage throughout each of the exhibition halls. "This is definately the way to cover this kind of show", commented one of the links engineers on site. "In the past, using analogue links, we have have needed multiple receive points in each hall and have needed to track the cameramen very carefully. Now one fan beam antenna in each hall works perfectly" Dubai, UAE - December 2003 |
| 'Sweet Chariot' victory parade In many respects, the scenes that greeted England's World Cup winners in London's west end were even more extraordinary than their moment of glory in Sydney. The victory parade was a fantastic mix of Last Night at the Proms, a royal wedding and the most amazing New Year's Eve Trafalgar Square party, all rolled into one.
The 'Sweet Chariot' victory parade was covered live by BBC Outside Broadcasts using a D-Cam 'Clip-on' equipped camera, on each of the buses. Signals from both buses were beamed up to two Gigawave 'Rebro' units in a helicopter, hovering overhead. From here the signal were retransmitted, without additional delay, to the BBC Outside Broadcast OB Trucks in Trafalgar Square. The mid-point relay helicopter was also equipped with an aerial camera and signals from this camera were beamed down to Trafalgar Square using a MTV-D digital downlink. All live images from the various Gigawave digital links were pooled and made available to both to ITN and Sky, in addition to the BBC. Gigawave are proud to have contributed to the live coverage of the 'Sweet Chariot' victory parade and the the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
London, England - December 2003 |
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