Seeing beyond the horizon?

**Orthoclipse** · 23-06-2006

Am I correct in thinking that if a dish is high enough above sea level, then you can see more satellites east or west than at sea level?

If yes, then is there some sort of formula or rule or thumb to figure out how high you must go e.g. how high must a dish be to see a satellite that would normally be 1 degree below the horizon at sea level?

**gameboy** · 24-06-2006

Whow I'm sure you could do it but the dish would have to be very large to view anything.

**Orthoclipse** · 25-06-2006

I wasn't thinking so much of increasing the dish size, more moving it to a high altitude location e.g. mountain!

PAS4 * 72E is beyond the horizon for me but the footprint still shows a strong signal suitable for a small dish. Just wondering if it's theoretically possible? Or is the footprint wrong - if I can't see the satellite, can the satellite 'see' me?

Rupert · 25-06-2006

You should have a mountain which is hundreds kilometers high. So you just can not see satellite which is below horizon.

Ok, theoretically high mountain can give advantage if satellite is exactly on horizon, or for example just 0.5 degrees over horizon. Maybe ground noise can be lower then if mountain would be for example 5km high.

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