I really should. Im taking a little more time off this year, so I should get my hands on license. Maybe I can reach @NVK in Toronto from here in Arizona.
Also, that dish will work for eutelsat-113 in a large part of the US but might be a stretch for reaching Galaxy-18 satellite.
I have a link somewhere to estimate requires dish diameter.
If you get licensed, I’m in northern Shenandoah valley.
Iirc, it’s a minimum of 45cm for Galaxy18. Finally got the LNB amp in the mail yesterday so should know for certain soon.
Yeah, but where I live 45 cm is marginal. But being an over achiever, I went with a 1.2 m dish (there is essentially no advantage over a 60 cm dish given how the data is redundantly transmitted…it’s fairly tolerant of outages).
The dish was free. 🙃 might upgrade later.
I started with the same dish. Worked hard to get it pointed at G18, which wasn’t my best choice, but at the time I didn’t know how to look up expected power at my location.
Wait. So this dish will or will not work? Haven’t gotten to testing stage yet.
https://satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5733
https://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5528
Ku, not continental us ku
