Does altitude help?

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Hi,

I wondered about receiving KU FTA off Hispasat 1C from SE Arizona, US.
The "look angle" calculator says I'm -.4 below. Could my 5000 ft
elevation-location help? Is it usually possible to get signal from
these fringe locations--like 1 or 2 degrees elevation above horizon?
What's someone's technical evaluation in terms of dish size, lnb, etc.

Thanks,
Largo

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Largo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wondered about receiving KU FTA off Hispasat 1C from SE Arizona, US.
> The "look angle" calculator says I'm -.4 below. Could my 5000 ft
> elevation-location help? Is it usually possible to get signal from
> these fringe locations--like 1 or 2 degrees elevation above horizon?
> What's someone's technical evaluation in terms of dish size, lnb, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Largo

You also need to be within the beam's footprint. Are you?

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"Largo" <tryagain@fullBS.bad.lnk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I wondered about receiving KU FTA off Hispasat 1C from SE Arizona, US.
> The "look angle" calculator says I'm -.4 below. Could my 5000 ft
> elevation-location help? Is it usually possible to get signal from
> these fringe locations--like 1 or 2 degrees elevation above horizon?
> What's someone's technical evaluation in terms of dish size, lnb, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Largo

It would seem to me if you are below the horizon then you are below the
horizon and are beyond a "fringe" situation even at 5000 ft elevation.
However experiement! Get the largest dish you can and a standard or
universal lnb and go for it.

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On 01 Oct 2004 23:50:03 GMT, piecheech@aol.com (PieCheech) wrote:

>>> I wondered about receiving KU FTA off Hispasat 1C from SE Arizona, US.
>>> The "look angle" calculator says I'm -.4 below. Could my 5000 ft
>>> elevation-location help? Is it usually possible to get signal from
>>> these fringe locations--like 1 or 2 degrees elevation above horizon?
>
>no matter if you are at sea level or on top of a mountain your latitude and
>longitude still remains constant. Even if you were able to "look" at those
>satellites over the horizon, the footprint beam would probably be diminished
>and none existant by the distance alone and the signal would probably be very
>weak.

I wanted to know the possibility of getting FTA off Hispasat. Lyngsat
for 30W "Hispasat" appears that I'd be able to "see it" although
Hispasat 1C footprint say's I won't.

My next question is about lyngsat. What's the difference between the
European and the American beam? I assume that if programming says
this or whatnot is on the European beam, I won't be able to receive
it--even if the satellite is easily visible from my ground station
because that signal (and programming) is spotted onto another
continent. Is this assumption correct?

Thanks for your assistance.
Largo