African Satellite World and Sat Gear

African Satellite World and Sat Gear

Could a member may have pressed 8284 on srt 4922 and seen what it displays?
 
freddygaz said:
What I can say the two satellites are fridge reception.....ie 7E&7W to nab both of them you need a bigger surface area.....lets say starting at 300cm dish going up to compensate on those cloudy days
The easiest way is to get two 180cm dishes with marched feed and you are gud for the hunt!
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Thanks. Not sure of where I can get a 300Cm (i.e., 10 Ft) dish. Also, no space to keep it at the moment.
 
Is anyone hitting green on Press TV HD on Arabsat 5c 20E tp 3913R12911 mine is red.
 
freddygaz said:
What I can say the two satellites are fridge reception.....ie 7E&7W to nab both of them ...The easiest way is to get two 180cm dishes with marched feed and you are gud for the hunt!
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This is a new idea. can you expound on it please?
 
msondaa said:
A European space satellite that has
been mapping the Earth's
gravitational field is set to crash
down to Earth in the coming days,
and it could provide a "real treat"
for space watchers.
But could GOCE (pronounced "GO-
chay"), which is set to make an
"uncontrolled entry" into the
atmosphere, present a risk to
anyone on the ground?
"For the most part, these
uncontrolled re-entries are the
norm," Space.com's Tariq Malik told
Yahoo News in a phone interview.
"It's not so much that we've been
lucky to not get hit by one as it is
the planet is so big."
The European Space Agency does
not know exactly when GOCE, short
for Gravity field and steady-state
Ocean Circulation Explorer, will
crash to Earth, and experts there
don't know exactly where it will
land. But the general consensus is
that it will re-enter Earth's
atmosphere sometime between
Friday and Monday.
"It's rather hard to predict where
the spacecraft will re-enter and
impact," the ESA's Rune
Floberghagen told the New York
Times. "Concretely our best
engineering prediction is now for a
re-entry on Sunday, with a
possibility for it slipping into early
Monday."
And if all goes well, people may be
able to watch the satellite safely
enter the atmosphere and explode
into a fireball of smaller fragments.
"The one thing I'm really wondering
about is where the re-entry might
be visible from," Malik said. "It's
very instructive to watch this stuff
burn up. From the ground, it's like
watching a giant fireball. If that
happens, viewers on the ground
could really get a treat."
So far, the odds have worked out
incredibly well for people on Earth.
No known satellite has ever
impacted a person or destroyed a
significant piece of property.
However, that doesn't mean space
junk hasn't come close to civilization
before. In 1979, fragments from the
first U.S. space station SKYLAB
landed in Western Australia , though
no one was hurt in the impact. And
in 2004, NASA's Genesis satellite
crashed into the desert in Utah
when its parachute failed to deploy
on re-entry. And again, even though
the impact created a crater, no
person or private property was
harmed by the impact.
And it was estimated last year that
ENVISAT, the largest satellite in
history, could pose a 150-year threat
to Earth. Having run out of fuel, no
one knows when the 17,636-pound
satellite will return to Earth and
what kind of impact it might have.
Malik says that within about 24
hours of GOCE's re-entry observers
should have an accurate estimate of
when it will enter the atmosphere.
Then, within about 12 hours of its
re-entry, scientists will begin to
more closely predict where
fragments from the satellite will
land.
"It will start off as wide as a
continent or an ocean," Malik said.
"By the end, nearly all of the
possible trajectory lines will have
been eliminated and they'll have a
good idea of where it's headed."
But even though it's extremely
unlikely that GOCE will pose a risk
upon re-entry, Malik still says any
would-be collectors would be wise to
leave any found debris alone.
"It's not really wise to touch it, even
though it's fallen down from space,"
he said. "It was powered by an
engine and you don't know what
kind of chemicals or residue are in
there."
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ei let it not land on my dish I worked on it the other day and I dont want to mount the roof again somewhere north coast is ok.
 
ugda said:
its fortunate some people do not know what has kept this forum going! Not because one has a brand new reciever he wants to sell, but the what one has discovered about fta that would add value to this forum. We know what to buy!
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Hi, thanks for your input but the fact stillremains that to explore the fta world we have totest different types of receivers and even buy from those whom we have known right from the old days of RDI forums. FTA and receivers are inseparable and we encourage those who have new receivers to share with us their experience and those who are interested can PMS and share the other deals albeit from trusted guys like Mirjangi down at the Coast.
 
freddygaz said:
wat I ment is getting each dish on the particular satellite for maximum reception
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I was fascinated by the idea as well, and had often wondered about it. Was it Freddygaz or Ftnash that mentioned two dishes with "matched feed", I wonder what Matched Feed means. The implication seems to be that if you set up two 130 cm offset dishes, each with their own LNB, to track the same satellite, and combine the two signals, you will get a stronger signal, stronger than the signal from each dish on its own. Am I understanding correctly? I wonder how you would combine the two signals, just splice the two co-ax cables together?
 
Northumberland said:
I was fascinated by the idea as well, and had often wondered about it. Was it Freddygaz or Ftnash that mentioned two dishes with "matched feed", I wonder what Matched Feed means. The implication seems to be that if you set up two 130 cm offset dishes, each with their own LNB, to track the same satellite, and combine the two signals, you will get a stronger signal, stronger than the signal from each dish on its own. Am I understanding correctly? I wonder how you would combine the two signals, just splice the two co-ax cables together?
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Northumberland, you have spelled out the questions very clearly! freddygaz, please answer.
 
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for those who didn't have the chance see SRT 4950M, this is how it looks. it so small that it can fit into palm and small that it cannot allow every basic hardware to be fitted in it. just some few, it has external IR sensor, jack to RCA etc but the funny thing if has embedded CAS reader.
 
lagat said:
Hi, thanks for your input but the fact stillremains that to explore the fta world we have totest different types of receivers and even buy from those whom we have known right from the old days of RDI forums. FTA and receivers are inseparable and we encourage those who have new receivers to share with us their experience and those who are interested can PMS and share the other deals albeit from trusted guys like Mirjangi down at the Coast.
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thanks.
 
how do i get 7degrees east in nakuru and can i get the pictures i also need to watch the football channels please help anybody
 
anybody getting citizen tv fta?mine dissapeared 4days ago at 62E
 
mtuko2 said:
anybody getting citizen tv fta?mine dissapeared 4days ago at 62E
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Am experiencing the same thing..even on a 3metre dish Citizen tv is full of scratches...
Any insight will be appreciated... Can we nab the channel on Intelsat 20?
 
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