I asked my military satellite technicians to include the IRD(s) on the registration form, but they didn know what I meant. Whats an IRD?
It stands for Integrated Receiver-Decoder. The fixed military and federal digital satellite dishes, which do not move, can have up to three or more separate “channels” depending upon the service. Each channel is “addressable” and must be “illuminated” or “authenticated” to receive these programs. It is therefore possible to get up to three separate programs simultaneously through the same dish. If you are using a military/federal digital Convergent CDV site and your technician does not identify which IRD(s) he wants illuminated, all of them at that site will be illuminated and we could possibly unintentionally “step on” someone else’s program (it’s happened). The numbers we need are the site identifier (eg… AG-134A) and the IRD(s) (like 2544781-1). I looked at the calendar, but there was only a paragraph of information on each program. When will I get additional detailed information to do local promotion about looks like it might be a great program?
