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• Sherburne Wright Cable Commission 3rd Quarter 2011 Report Wi-Fi Bridge During the Big Lake Parade we started using a new technology that allows us to stream our live shoots from locations that would have never previously been possible. Our trailer was parked in the carnival grounds over 500 yards away from any network connection. Using the Wi-Fi Bridge we setup one dish transmitter with router on top of our trailer. The second dish sat on top of the Big Lake High School.A cable from that dish's router ran from the roof and plugged into a network feed in the campus office of Big Lake Mayor Lori Kampa. The schools IT staff gave us the bandwidth that allowed us to stream the parade video and audio signal to a link on the City of Big Lake's web site. This allowed anyone world wide to see the parade on the intemet. As we develop the use of this technology more,we plan on publishing future shoots so that people can notify family and friends world wide and let them know they can watch our community programming. This is one of the many reasons that we have been working with each city's IT staff to setup remote • access to the network. None of this would have been possible if we hadn't received extensive help from Rick Todd of Leightronix. He flew out in June to help us stream a live concert from Elk River's downtown park. He showed us how to use the trailers equipment along with the Leightronix streaming box and PEG Vault to send programming out via wireless streaming devices. We hope to use this technology for many shoots in the future where we can't plug directly into a network connection. Delano Streaming By the time you read this,Delano should be our next city that is streaming Channel 12 for the entire world to see. We recently installed the equipment in their control room and have been working with their city staff to activate it. Rain and Video Equipment Don't Mix! We have had an extraordinary storm season this year as far as our city equipment goes! We have fought the elements on numerous occasions starting with the Buffalo parade where a very intensive rainstorm almost derailed our live shoot. The rain followed us to Delano as we prepared for a Concert in the Park shoot. We have rain gear for the cameras but we are working on creating special gear for our cable reels and • other equipment that is exposed to the elements. We have also had issues with some of the extreme heat this season and we have modified the trailers electrical system so we can run extra air conditioning units.