wildfeed spotbeams?
- Thread starter dr.zin
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Did they say what size dish they were using? What were the frequencies of the transponders?
There are holes in the 83W Ku coverage for the West Coast.
https://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5194
Commercial Ku dish size for feeds such as this will probably be 1.8 meters and larger. The dishes we use are usually smaller than 1.8 meters for Ku, and are not setup to the commercial standards.
As for spot-beams, the only ones advertising doing that are the commercial satellites such as DishNetwork. There were politics involved that required this. I do not know of any type of Ku satellite feed that is on a spot-beam such as the ones DishNetwork uses.
Some of the feed transponders cannot be seen on smaller dishes here, while my larger dishes will get them. I suspect this is a low power signal rather than a spot beam. If they are using spot-beams, they are not advertising them or showing them in the satellite coverage charts that I have seen.
https://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5194
Commercial Ku dish size for feeds such as this will probably be 1.8 meters and larger. The dishes we use are usually smaller than 1.8 meters for Ku, and are not setup to the commercial standards.
As for spot-beams, the only ones advertising doing that are the commercial satellites such as DishNetwork. There were politics involved that required this. I do not know of any type of Ku satellite feed that is on a spot-beam such as the ones DishNetwork uses.
Some of the feed transponders cannot be seen on smaller dishes here, while my larger dishes will get them. I suspect this is a low power signal rather than a spot beam. If they are using spot-beams, they are not advertising them or showing them in the satellite coverage charts that I have seen.
All things being equal, both dishes made out of the exact same material and processes, how much gain does a 1.2 meter dish have over a 1.0 meter dish? How much stronger will the signal be on the 1.2 meter dish?
There is not much signal difference in a 1 meter dish compared to a 1.2 meter dish. It would be hard to say which one would perform better in a fta environment because of many different variables. In the commercial world using two equally constructed dishes and feeds, a 1.2 meter dish would have a slight advantage over a 1 meter dish, but it would only be around 1.5db at best.
A spotbeam is an area that is covered in a very small circle that is about 200-300 miles in diameter. The only satellites that I see advertising spotbeam capability are the ku satellite providers.
More info here:
http://dishuser.org/satellites.php
The KU4 - Saskatoon beam covers a wide area and cannot be considered a spotbeam.
Beam Map: http://satstar.net/beams/skyterra1_ku4.html
A spotbeam is an area that is covered in a very small circle that is about 200-300 miles in diameter. The only satellites that I see advertising spotbeam capability are the ku satellite providers.
More info here:
http://dishuser.org/satellites.php
The KU4 - Saskatoon beam covers a wide area and cannot be considered a spotbeam.
Beam Map: http://satstar.net/beams/skyterra1_ku4.html
