Operating Procedures 1
 
 
The Home Theatre and Satellite Reception Systems
  
 
 

The Home Theatre and satellite reception systems installed in the "Oliver" allow you to enjoy music, films, radio and television with extraordinary quality for a system installed in a moving vehicle. You can:

  • Watch television stations from all over the world
  • Listen to radio stations from all over the world
  • Listen to music CDs
  • Watch films on DVD
  • Listen with cinema class 5-speaker surround sound
  • Listen with special sound fields such as music hall or jazz club
 
There are 4 components to the systems:
 
1

A Kathrein satellite dish mounted on the roof. This dish is connected to a control unit that is programmed to search for selected satellites in the sky, no matter where you are and no matter which way you are pointing. New satellites can be added to the system if you know their location and transmitting parameters. The control unit remembers the last position in the sky of each satellite you have found, and the last list of channels that it downloaded from that satellite. You can tell the control unit to update its list of channels for a satellite you have found at any time. You will have to let the system search again for each satellite that you want to use whenever to boat has been moved.

You cannot use the satellite dish while you are moving! As soon as you start the engine, the dish will retract. This is to prevent you forgetting to retract the dish when you set off, and shearing it off when you pass under a low bridge!

You can only pick up television and radio stations from a satellite if the dish can see it in the sky. The programmed search will do its best to find the satellite, but if it can't see it you can't use it.
2
 A Sony Home Theatre Centre. This unit manages the input from the satellite dish and feeds signals to the television and the speakers. The first image on the right shows the Kathrein controller described above, and the second the Home Theatre Centre. The Kathrein Controller is installed on top of the Home Theatre Centre in the audio cabinet.
3
 A Sharp 17" Aquos flat panel television unit, mounted on the wall near the main entrance door. This unit can be folded back against the wall when not in use, or pulled out and oriented in all planes of rotation for the best viewing position from where you are sitting.
4

Five speakers and a bass unit. 4 audio speakers are mounted on the walls of the boat and the fifth is inside the theatre cabinet, directly in front of you when you are listening.The bass unit is also installed inside the audio cabinet.

The two small black speakers set into the roof of the boat are not connected to anything. They are filling in holes that the builder made.

The FM radio antenna mounted on the roof at the front of the boat is not used.
5
 Naturally, all the electronic units have remote controls, and naturally they don't work together particularly well. In most cases you can get by with two of the three - the Sony Home Theatre remote and the Kathrein remote. In some cases, you may need to use the TV remote too.
Click on the following list of activities for detailed settings.