Digital TV Remodulator

OK, I freely admit that I'm out of my depth with the new digital TV.
However, like Joerg, I live so far out in the boondocks that they have to
pipe in sunshine. (about 50 miles north of Joerg and about the same
elevation, longitude, and problems).

Anyway, we are switching over to digital TV and have the "TV room" pretty
well arranged with a LCD HD digital TV, satellite (directv) receiver, and
all work well. However, we have a small digital TV in the upstairs room
(directly above the downstairs TV) that is only connected right now to an
antenna on the roof. As described elsewhere, living 80+ miles from the
nearest transmitter doesn't provide a signal worth a damn to a digital TV.
SOmetimes fair, sometimes very pixillated, sometimes blue screen of death.

What I'd like to do is take that satellite signal coming into the satellite
receiver and transmit it by RF to the TV set above. In the "good old days"
you could buy (or easily build) a remodulator that would take the composite
audio/video and put out a signal on old VHF channels 3 or 4 (switch
selectable) and with a trivial dipole transmit that signal a few dozen feet
to another TV.

I've scanned the usual sources (Ramsey, AC6V, etc.) for either a kit, or
plans, or some other source to find out how to "remodulate" the digital
signal coming from the satellite onto the new format TV and have come up
blank.

Anybody got a pointer to at least some basic information on how I might do
this in the new digital world? Right now I've got enough design projects
for the business to keep me going for twenty years, so if anybody knows of
an off-the-shelf box that will do the job, that's great. Yes, I googled
what I thought were the appropriate words and came up dry.

Jim


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