What satellites can you get in eastern Canada

manicscrewdriver

manicscrewdriver

Just thought i'd ask in order to get a bit more of an understanding of what i'm letting myself in for next year. If all goes to plan i should be living in Nova Scotia in early 2015.

My biggest dish currently in use at my home in the UK is a 1m Gilbertini which i see 70e to 45w on the arc. We have stupid planning regulations in the UK meaning that you cannot have anything bigger than a 1m dish without planning permission, which is very rarely given. I also have a 1.2m Fibo in storage which is coming with me to Canada.

All of the Ku band sats on that arc are all linear polarity (H & V) and are usually fairly easy to get apart form 7w, 4w and 11w which need dishes 1.5m+ to get a steady signal. C band in the UK is pretty much a no brainer due to the restrictions mentioned previously. The only circular polarity birds we have had in European skys were the old Canadian Nimiq1@ 44.5e and the old US DirecTV 1R @ 56e that were moved there just to keep the orbital slots open for one of the Russian operators

What are the maximum limits on the arc in Nova Scotia? I am assuming that i will also require some circular KU lnbs.

Any pointers would be grateful.

Nano
 
We have a member that lives in Nova Scotia and he can see from 8-125w. Aside from the few sats that require a universal lnb all sats on the American arc can be scanned in the 11.700-12.200 frequecy range except for Simon Bolivar at 78w. Circular ku lnb is only required for sub to either Bell or Dish Network. You would need to contact city hall to find out if there are any restrictions to the height of a satellite dish for c band, which is by far superior to ku band on this side of the pond. For c band, depending on how you set up your actuator, arc would be about 5-127w or 27.5-139w.
I keep seperate dishes for both, my 8' solid has the dielectric plate inserted for the Atlantic circular c band sats and arcs from 11-127w and my 10' mesh arcs from 31.5-139w.
 
I'm intending to live in the middle of no where, where my nearest neighbour will be at least 10 minutes away (by telephone :D) so i don't think dish size will be a problem. Its amazing what you can hide with a hedge. Space is a premium in the UK so its harder to hide things from the nosey neighbour who lives about 10ft away.

Simon Boliver @78w shouldn't be an issue either. All the Ku lnbs i have in the UK are 10.70 ~ 12.75 GHz. I'm intending on bringing all my sat stuff with me including the lnbs. I have already started getting rid of all my receivers that only run 240v in favour of ones that run on both 240v and 120v.

Nano
 
You will probably be able to find an old c band dish that isn't being used. I only use universal ku band lnb's as well. Just a bit of a warning, the Maritimes usually get dumped on in Winter.
 
Yes I remember the Nor'easter that went through when i was there in January. I haven't seen snow like that since the late 70s. It just gets a bit colder and a bit damper in the UK, we don't have proper winters any more. At least the snow in Canada doesn't clog the dishes up as much as it does in the UK.

Snow in Canada is a lot finer and not as wet as it is in the UK. You can brush 2ft of snow off your car in Canada with that small brush they give you in a rental car. To remove the same amount of snow off your car in the UK you need a jack hammer as it just freezes into a block of ice due to how wet it is when it comes down.

The Brits also don't know how to drive in snow either. More than two inches brings the UK to a standstill. At least I had 8 years in North east Scotland so driving in the snow isn't a major issue to drive in for me, its just driving on the right hand side of the road from the left side of the car that screws me up :wtf2:

After driving on the left from the right hand side of the car for over 20 years it messes with my head driving on the right :lolsign:
 

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