New Era Systems tells the world when the Chilean miners are rescued.
San Jose Mine, Chile - Having been chosen by the Government to broadcast the live rescue of the
trapped coal miners, BG Television of Santiago, Chile faces the worry that their equipment could fail at
the critical moment of the world-wide broadcast.
Satellite equipment is reliable, but back-up is always needed. BG Television needed a fully redundant
satellite broadcast system, but the manufacturers of antennas and amplifiers have a three month
delivery schedule. Way too long, because everybody hopes that the miners will be safely at home before
the manufacturers can ship.
The TV broadcaster had only one option – to quickly purchase used, reliable equipment, and work
around the clock to integrate it into a complete satellite uplink package and then rush the completed
system to the mine site.
New Era Systems of Pompano Beach Florida, a specialist in used satellite equipment was tasked by
BG Television to find an automatic antenna, a high power amplifier and a video encoder that taken all
together will receive input from the news cameras and broadcast the images to the world.
Phil Thomas of New Era explains that the search for suitable equipment became a top priority. The
AVL antenna was the same type that you see on most of the news trucks and as luckily it was available
right here in Florida. The encoder belonged to a friend in Sarasota who runs news gathering truck called
Yellow Bird Live, when he heard of the problems he willingly sacrificed his spare Tiernan HE4000 leaving
himself without a backup for a couple of weeks.
To get the ETM 750 Watt power amplifier we had to go as far as Ontario, Canada and goad the Canadian
national satellite operator to move quickly and release an unused amplifier.
At the end of the first week in October all of the equipment was in route to Chile with all of the
components scheduled to arrive by October 8th, then comes the hard work of assembling the parts into
a complete broadcast package.
Phil Thomas says "I hope that they can make it on time, because we have all busted our butts to make it
happen"
New Era Systems has been selling new and used satellite equipment since 2000 and specializes in cheap,
and quick delivery of spare parts to teleports, broadcasters and end users.
October 7th
New Era Systems, INC
Pompano Beach, Florida.
Telephone 954 580 0900
pthomas@newerasystems.net
www.newerasystems.net
New Era Systems provides satellite communication for remote mining site in Africa.
Wanted: skilled workers for remote mining site, high-pay, isolation and loneliness guaranteed!
Of necessity, mining for copper and other minerals takes place in remote regions of the world. The mines
are controlled by a handful of ex-pats often continents away from their home and family. Feelings of
isolation are very common within these communities of workers, and because of this, it's hard to keep
good employees.
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. of Vancouver British Columbia has taken extraordinary steps to overcome
this problem by installing a satellite Earth Station specifically for the communication needs of the
employee's housing compound.
New Era Systems, of Pompano Beach Florida already handles the full communication needs of the
companies mine sites, and now has been asked to do the same for the employee's compound.
Phil Thomas, President of New Era Systems explains that Satellite communication is not a difficult task;
we send FQM the complete equipment package, and a local installer makes the system operational within
three days of receiving it.
With their new communication system, the employees will be able to exchange email, photographs,
telephone and even video conversation with their family back home.
The satellite system consists of a dish, a satellite radio, modem and a router. Depending on the layout
of the compound, each room can be connected by cable, or by wireless. The important point is that the
housing communication system is totally separate from the corporate system.
First Quantum values their employees and seeks ways to reduce the high cost of employee turnover and
found this benefit to be welcomed by their staff. FQM and New Era have cooperated on other housing
communication systems in the past and will most likely do the same in future as new mine sites are
established.
New Era Systems, Inc. is based in Pompano Beach Florida, and has been selling satellite equipment and
providing bandwidth connections to Mining and Exploration companies since 2000.