FTA angle calculator

[nigel_miguel]

I Live in London ONtario Canada. I'm looking to get an FTA system to catch the portuguese channel "RTP international" (if anyone is familiar with this channel).

I have not bought my receiver and dish yet because i need to know how to point it before i buy it and then I cannot do it.

Can anyone help me with this?

thak you

 

[PSB]

Hello and Welcome to the satelliteguys.US FTA forum, the channel is on the AMC-4 satellite.

http://www.lyngsat.com/amc4.html

And you can get the angles on Sadouns website for your area.


http://www.sadoun.com/Sat/Installation/Satellite-Heading-Calculator.htm

For Toronto....

Elevation= 35 deg.
Azimuth= 210 deg.
Skew = 21 deg.

 

[PSB]

Dundas St. London CA.

Latitude 42° 36.000'N Longitude 81° 0.000'W

Sat Name Sat Lng Az(t) Az(m) El Skew
---------------------------------------------------------------
Intelsat 901 18.0W 109.0 118.5 11.0 -44.1

Intelsat 603 20.0W 110.6 120.0 12.4 -43.6

NSS 7 22.0W 112.1 121.6 13.8 -43.0

Intelsat 905 24.5W 114.1 123.6 15.6 -42.2

Intelsat 907 27.5W 116.6 126.1 17.7 -41.2

Hispasat 1C/1D 30.0W 118.7 128.2 19.4 -40.2

Intelsat 801 31.5W 120.0 129.5 20.4 -39.6

Intelsat 903 34.5W 122.7 132.2 22.4 -38.3

AMC 12 & Telstar 11 37.5W 125.5 135.0 24.4 -36.8

NSS 806 40.5W 128.4 137.9 26.2 -35.2

PAS 6B/3R 43.0W 130.9 140.4 27.8 -33.8

PAS 1R 45.0W 133.0 142.4 28.9 -32.6

Intelsat 705 50.0W 138.4 147.9 31.7 -29.3

Intelsat 707 53.0W 141.8 151.3 33.3 -27.0

Intelsat 805 55.5W 144.8 154.3 34.5 -25.1

PAS 9 58.0W 147.9 157.4 35.6 -23.0

Amazonas 61.0W 151.7 161.2 36.8 -20.4

EchoStar 3 & Rainbow 1 61.5W 152.4 161.8 37.0 -20.0

Estrela do Sul 1 63.0W 154.4 163.8 37.5 -18.6

Brasilsat B2 65.0W 157.0 166.5 38.2 -16.7

Brasilsat B1 70.0W 164.0 173.4 39.6 -11.7

Nahuel 1 & AMC 6 72.0W 166.8 176.3 40.0 -9.7

AMC 6 72.0W 166.8 176.3 40.0 -9.7

DirecTV 5 72.5W 167.5 177.0 40.1 -9.1

SBS 6 74.0W 169.7 179.2 40.3 -7.5

AMC 5 79.0W 177.0 186.5 40.8 -2.2

Nimiq 2 82.0W 181.5 190.9 40.8 1.1

AMC 9 83.0W 183.0 192.4 40.8 2.2

Brasilsat B3 84.0W 184.4 193.9 40.7 3.3

AMC 3 87.0W 188.8 198.3 40.4 6.5

Intelsat Americas 8 89.0W 191.7 201.2 40.2 8.6

Galaxy 11/Nimiq1 91.0W 194.6 204.1 39.8 10.7

Brasilsat B4 92.0W 196.0 205.5 39.6 11.7

Telstar 6 93.0W 197.4 206.9 39.3 12.7

Galaxy 3C 95.0W 200.2 209.7 38.8 14.7

Intelsat Americas 5 97.0W 203.0 212.4 38.2 16.7

Galaxy 4R 99.0W 205.6 215.1 37.5 18.6

AMC 4 101.0W 208.3 217.7 36.8 20.4

AMC 1 103.0W 210.8 220.3 36.0 22.2

AMC 15 105.0W 213.3 222.8 35.2 23.9

Anik F1 107.3W 216.1 225.6 34.1 25.7

DirecTV 6 & EchoStar 6/8 110.0W 219.3 228.8 32.8 27.8

Anik F2 111.1W 220.6 230.0 32.2 28.6

Solidaridad 2 113.0W 222.7 232.2 31.2 30.0

SatMex 5 116.8W 226.8 236.3 29.1 32.5

EchoStar 7 & DirecTV 7S 119.0W 229.1 238.6 27.8 33.8

EchoStar 9/Intelsat Americas 13 121.0W 231.1 240.6 26.5 35.0

Galaxy 10R 123.0W 233.1 242.5 25.3 36.0

Galaxy 12 125.0W 235.0 244.4 24.0 37.1

Galaxy 13/Horizons 1 127.0W 236.8 246.3 22.7 38.0

Intelsat Americas 7 129.0W 238.6 248.1 21.4 38.9

AMC 11 131.0W 240.4 249.9 20.1 39.8

Galaxy 1R 133.0W 242.1 251.6 18.7 40.6

AMC 10 135.0W 243.8 253.3 17.3 41.3

AMC 7 137.0W 245.5 254.9 15.9 42.0

AMC 8 139.0W 247.1 256.5 14.5 42.7

EchoStar 1/2 148.0W 254.0 263.4 8.1 45.0

Satellite Finder is (c) Copyright 2004, P. Lutus

 

[charper1]

Are these correct?

Galaxy12 at 74.0w
AMC9 at 85.0w
Galaxy 9 91.0w
Brasilsat B4 92.0w

 

[PSB]

G-12 listed at 125w now on Lyngsat, time Satfinder did an update...... Works for 99% of KU band satellites so I am happy enough with it for now (FREE)

AMC-9 is at 83w

 

[charper1]

OK, I updated mine too (I manually edit the source file)and wasn't sure which was correct. Thanks Pete.

 

[Mr Tony]

Are these correct?

Galaxy12 at 74.0w
AMC9 at 85.0w
Galaxy 9 91.0w

SBS6 is at 74
AMC9 moved to 83
G11 is at 91

Petes thing is a little outdated

 

[PSB]

I think I may work on updating it.....

C:WINDOWS/.SatFinder/satlist.txt.

 

[charper1]

Petes thing is a little outdated

LOL, don't tell the wifey/GF.. At least you didn't say its was little AND outdated.




Sorry, I had too.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I would love to install a sat finder here. Any ideas?

 

[PSB]

If we could get someone to stay on top of this list that would work....... I vote Cascade!

 

[charper1]

Here is a great (to me) example of a web based one. It needs a bit of updating also, but you should be able to track down the source code.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennasatelazposcalc.html

 

[Mr Tony]

LOL, don't tell the wifey/GF.. At least you didn't say its was little AND outdated.

I've met Petes wife....I'll let her decide

 

[charper1]

Just FYI if you want; here is the edited SatFinder file I use. I edited the new satellite names and locations where needed and I did remove the DBS and non-US spot beam stuff for my needs, but you can put it back if you need to. There is also some added text in mine that you can remove as well, such as target goals vs needs.

Close SatFinder, and change your current file extention FROM satlist.TXT TO satlist.OLD and then put this one into the same location.

Such as:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\.SatFinder (or where ever you loaded it) this is the source's target location, not the program file's target location. If you don;t know where to look just search for 'satlist.txt' on your main HDD.

 

[PSB]

Thanks!

 

[charper1]

I meant to add, that if you try mine and see any errors PLEASE post them so I can fix them; THANKS!

 

[Cascade]

This any good?

 

[charper1]

Is this an update with ALL included satellites regardless of beam and such? I'll save it.

 

[Cascade]

Everything from lyngsat inc c-band

 

[Shawn95GT]

It's cool you can edit that file - I did like you just posted Cascade, only I went all the way to 1W which is likely furter East than even the Floridians are seeing.

You should add IA-8 at 89w

Shawn