SatKrak Trade Fair 2011

The DIPOL's success at SatKrak 2011. We are pleased to announce that we won the statuette for Best Component of SMATV System. The winner is TERRA MMH-3000+ headend. Photo: www.okoliceobrazu.pl

Photo of the stand

SatKrak 2011, the biggest digital television exhibition and trade fair in Poland, was held in Krakow on October 13-15.

Our stand was visited by over 1000 people. They were mostly installers, representatives of project offices, cable networks, electronics stores. DIPOL presented a wide range of products, including:

• the latest DVB-T receiver
• DVB-T antennas
• RF amplifiers designed for DVB-T systems
• concept of modernization of old MATV systems for DVB-T
• latest version of SatNet software for designing multiswitch systems
• concept and devices for creating home and building fiber optic systems
• 2nd generation headend - MMH-3000+
• Terra devices for CATV
• TRISET Profi coaxial cable
• DVB-T meters
• HDMI equipment
• LCD/plasma mounts
• GSM, 3G, CDMA repeaters

Photo Contest 2009

Subject of the photo contest is a challenge that, at first, seems to be difficult to be up to. What can be interesting in antennas? Can they really inspire and become the focus of artistic interest?

DIPOL organizes this photographic competition for the eight time. The seven previous editions showed that antennas can be interesting subjects of the environment we live in, and - besides useful functions - they can bring artistic inspiration. We hope the competitors will again take up the task that, apart from having aesthetic qualities, requires dash of imagination, grain of wit, and sometimes a certain measure of risk.

Antennas constitute a part of our everyday landscape. Many of us can remember all of these past "forests" of traditional TV antennas that disappear from our lives being replaced by "dishes" of satellite antennas, and "tubes" or "columns" of communications devices.

Some of them irritate our sense of beauty and ruin the looks of even the most architecturally-advanced buildings, but others may have just an opposite effect, creating a sort of unity and harmony with their surroundings.

Works can be submitted from June 1st, 2009 to September 30, 2009. The works will be adjudicated by photographer and designer from Krakow, Mr. Pawel Zechenter (I and II prize).
III prize will be awarded by our technical department - the main criterion is ability of communicating technical ideas in an interesting way.

The results of the previous editions are available at DIPOL website.

In 2008 the first prize went to Mr. Dariusz Mączynski for the aesthetic values of the series"In a distorting mirror".

The 7th edition of "Engagingly about antennas" has been adjudicated

Everyone could exercise imagination, and the results show that this activity, as usual, brought a lot of interesting compositions with antennas, the objects that does not seem to be so inspiring.
The entries often present antennas as bridges linking various worlds:

• technology - nature; industrial products often replace the natural rest places for birds: "We like it, will we fly away?" - Marek Niedoba,
• the present day - history; the antennas bridging the gap between old cultures and the most advanced technologies of the modern world: "Antenna in Mongolian grassland" - Piotr Szydlowski,
• deserted regions - research stations: "Global range" Grzegorz Kupis,
• poverty - consumption; antennas on falling apart homesteads - a symbol of the luxury for the poor: "Cairo" - Katarzyna Zwolska,
• peace of the nature - media noise; antennas found in backwoods: Evening cartoon, supper and bed - Paweł Skonieczny,
• sky - ground; "Morning news" - Weronika Zielinska, "Out of a window... - Mariusz Krason,
• isolation - a sense of community: "Loneliness in a big city"- Wojciech Pigla.

As every year, they were carefully watched by fine art photographer from Krakow, Mr. Pawel Zechenter, who awarded the first and second prizes. Another award has been granted by the DIPOL Technical Department.