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Some newbie questions about a USALS system in Greece
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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1158815" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>You might be able to get something on those satellites with a 2 meter sized dish (or larger) as most of the spot beams are not that closed in and that sharply focused, there is some back scatter off the antenna shrouds on the satellite.</p><p></p><p>Try a site called..Satbeams</p><p></p><p>You will be able to see whats going on with the signal beams for those satellites, just click on your location and move the marker to the nearest signal couture, this will give you an estimated antenna size for that location, if you move the marker to the next higher couture you will see the approximate dish size change, this would give you an ideal on what may be needed to get a signal at your location.</p><p></p><p>The old estimates (things may have changed over the years) for the size of the dish needed, was for every 1 dB of signal gain a 3 inch increase in dish size is needed.</p><p></p><p>In te charts listed by Channel Hopper, you will see a table for the EIRP/dBW (signal strength) to antenna size, it ends at the 41 dBW couture but shows the dish size needed for that couture, you can estimate from there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1158815, member: 369937"] You might be able to get something on those satellites with a 2 meter sized dish (or larger) as most of the spot beams are not that closed in and that sharply focused, there is some back scatter off the antenna shrouds on the satellite. Try a site called..Satbeams You will be able to see whats going on with the signal beams for those satellites, just click on your location and move the marker to the nearest signal couture, this will give you an estimated antenna size for that location, if you move the marker to the next higher couture you will see the approximate dish size change, this would give you an ideal on what may be needed to get a signal at your location. The old estimates (things may have changed over the years) for the size of the dish needed, was for every 1 dB of signal gain a 3 inch increase in dish size is needed. In te charts listed by Channel Hopper, you will see a table for the EIRP/dBW (signal strength) to antenna size, it ends at the 41 dBW couture but shows the dish size needed for that couture, you can estimate from there. [/QUOTE]
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