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October 2006
Schumi's Last Race
Engineers from Malta Visit Gigawave
Dia de la Hispanidad
Rossi in Pole Position for Portuguese GP
SNRT Engineers Visit Gigawave

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Schumi's Last Race
 Michael Schumacher has finally retired from Formula One at the age of 37. Despite not winning his eighth world championship title, he will go down in history as one of motor racing's greatest drivers.
 
The above images were taken at Monza during the recent Ferrari World Finals, at which Michael Schumacher and the entire Ferrari F1 Team made a guest appearance, much to the delight of the 45,000 Ferrari fans that attended the event.

One of the highlights of the weekend was a parade of historic Ferrari racing cars prepared by the Maranello F1 Clienti Department. Mediaset, who were covering the event used D-Cam woreless camera systems to cover the parade, along with speeches by various dignatories, including the Vice-president of Ferrari, Piero Ferrari.

In many ways, Ferrari's dominance of Formula One since 2000 is arguably Schumacher's greatest achievement. Somehow, Schumi was able to persuade some of the greatest brains in Formula One to join the Ferrari Team, and then to inspire them to reach heights no-one had previously achieved.

After years of uninspiring performance, it is unlikely that Ferrari would ever have reached achieved the success they have in the past few years had they not been driven by Schumacher's incredible work ethic, combined with a ruthless determination and almost robotic perfection.

Not satisfied with simply being the fastest and most talented driver in the world, he also worked hardest, Michael Schumacher expected his colleagues to do the same, and gathered around him at Ferrari a group of immensely capable people who thought the same way.

Schumi created an environment that was totally focused on him and which allows him to perform at his absolute best, knowing that the team will match him every step of the way.

Autodromo Nazionale de Monza, Italy - October 2006

PBS Engineers from Malta Visit Gigawave
 A team of engineers from Public Broadcasting Services in Malta recently attended a factory training course at the Gigawave Technical Centre covering Gigawave digital microwave links.
  
Gigawave recently won a tender from PBS Malta to supply digital MVL-D2 portable transmitters, as part of a project to upgrade their existing analogue
systems. A central receive point at the PBS tower in Gharghur, with rack mounted PTV-D receivers. will be used to receive signals from the MVL-D2 portable transmitters.
  
In addition to the digital MVL-D2 portable links, Gigawave has also supplied a Low Delay D-Cam Clip-On System, which was also demonstrated during the visit of Edmund Friggieri, Andrew Buckwell, and Percy Potter to the UK.

All three engineers commented on the superb performance of the Gigawave digital products and were looking forward to expanding the scope of their outside broadcast operations in Malta, especially with the D-Cam 'Clip-on' System

Gigawave Technical Centre - October 2006
Dia de la Hispanidad
 Día de la Hispanidad.is held on October 12th each year - the day Columbus discovered America. This year, TVE used a D-Cam wireless camera system for their live coverage of the important military parade.
  
This important national public holiday commemorates the historic re-unification of Spain, and also Christopher Columbus's first successful voyage from Spain to the Americas in 1492. Most of all it is a celebration of Spanish culture.

The main event of the day is a massive and vibrant procession through the centre of the capital city, which is attended by members of the Spanish royal family and prominent government officials. Every year the streets of Madrid are abundantly decorated with national flags and lined with thousands people eagerly anticipating the fantastic annual spectacle.

The parade consists of representatives from Spain's military institutions, public services and prominent businesses accompanied by bands and dancers representing every region of Spain.

Madrid, Spain - October 2006
Rossi Leads MotoGP World Championship
 Valentino Rossi goes into the final round of this year's Championship, at Valencia, eight points ahead of Nicky Hayden who was involved in a disastrous crash on lap five.
Viewers around the world are used to joining Rossi and other riders as part of Dorna's live coverage of MotoGP. However, few people realise that Gigawave engineers have, in conjunction with Dorna, been testing digital links alongside conventional analogue links, this season.

For the Estoril race, Rossi's fellow Camel Yamaha Team rider, Colin Edwards, carried one digital on-board system, whilst Ducati rider, Loris Capirossi, carried a second system.

One of the big advantages of digital links is that one does not need to use a helicopter as a mid-point relay. The advantage of this was clearly demonstrated at Estoril, where adverse weather conditions restricted the mid-point relay helicopter to around 900 feet agl. In turn, this adversely affected the live coverage of those bikes still equipped with analogue links.

In readiness for the 2007 season, a new digital on-board 'fly-away' system was being tested at Estoril. This portable system can receive up to seven channels as well as providing telemetry data. The whole system fits in two standard 12U flight cases that can be installed in a specially designed truck or air freighted to events outside Europe.

Estoril, Portugal - October 2006
SNRT Engineers Visit Gigawave
A team of engineers from Moroccan State broadcaster, Societe Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Television (SNRT) visited the Gigawave Technical Centre recently to conduct factory acceptance tests on ten 7GHz MVL-D2 microwave links.
Formerly known as Radio Television Maroc (RTM), the Company purchased their first MVL-D2 portable point to point links back in March 2005. As with the original MVL-D2 links the new links will be used to cover a large number of outside broadcast events in and around Rabat, including Sporting events, Royal occassions, and Friday prayers.

The MVL-D2 microwave links were supplied to SNTV by Gigawave's Moroccan Agent, Studiotech.

Gigawave Technical Centre - October 2006

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