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My daughter is taking advantage of the recent Sky half-price offer. We
live in Surrey, UK.

Can anybody please tell me the actual compass bearing for the Sky Astra
satellite, of point me to a helpfull website?

TIA

"Mike O'Sullivan" <mike@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3vftn2F157231U1@individual.net...

My daughter is taking advantage of the recent Sky half-price offer. We
live in Surrey, UK.

Can anybody please tell me the actual compass bearing for the Sky Astra
satellite, of point me to a helpfull website?

TIA

Surrey is nearly at 0 degrees, so the satellite will be ~28E, however you
need to look at a recent OS map of your area to get the compass correction
for magnetic north if you are using a compass (a few degrees, but varies
over time).

R. Mark Clayton wrote:

"Mike O'Sullivan" <mike@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3vftn2F157231U1@individual.net...

My daughter is taking advantage of the recent Sky half-price offer. We
live in Surrey, UK.

Can anybody please tell me the actual compass bearing for the Sky Astra
satellite, of point me to a helpfull website?

TIA


Surrey is nearly at 0 degrees, so the satellite will be ~28E, however you
need to look at a recent OS map of your area to get the compass correction
for magnetic north if you are using a compass (a few degrees, but varies
over time).

Thanks, still trying to understand the jargon. walked round today and

looked at a couple of dishes in the area with a compass. As far as I
could tell they seem to be pointed to around 155° south-east.

In article <3vh03hF15lvbaU1@individual.net>, Mike O'Sullivan
<mike@nowhere.com> writes

R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"Mike O'Sullivan" <mike@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3vftn2F157231U1@individual.net...

My daughter is taking advantage of the recent Sky half-price offer. We
live in Surrey, UK.

Can anybody please tell me the actual compass bearing for the Sky Astra
satellite, of point me to a helpfull website?

TIA


Surrey is nearly at 0 degrees, so the satellite will be ~28E, however you
need to look at a recent OS map of your area to get the compass correction
for magnetic north if you are using a compass (a few degrees, but varies
over time).

Thanks, still trying to understand the jargon. walked round today and
looked at a couple of dishes in the area with a compass. As far as I
could tell they seem to be pointed to around 155° south-east.

Take 180 as true south now go in degrees towards the east and where are
you;?...

28.8 deg East of South perhaps!...
--
Tony Sayer

"Mike O'Sullivan" <mike@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3vftn2F157231U1@individual.net...

My daughter is taking advantage of the recent Sky half-price offer. We
live in Surrey, UK.

Can anybody please tell me the actual compass bearing for the Sky Astra
satellite, of point me to a helpfull website?

See:

http://www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm

(In Kent I use 149 deg)

--

Michael Chare

In message <KKbR8pAE$0kDFw3m@bancom.co.uk>, tony sayer
<tony@bancom.co.uk> writes

Take 180 as true south now go in degrees towards the east and where are
you;?...

28.8 deg East of South perhaps!...

Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
demonstration in the shop.

At the same time, a shop about 10 miles away had ordered the same
system, and a few weeks later he rang us asking if we had ours working
(which we did). It turned out he was measuring from North, and not
South, when we tried to correct him he merely informed us WE were
wrong!, HE was a navigator in the RAF during the war, HE knew how to
read a compass!.

Pointing out that ours was working, and his wasn't, didn't seem to get
through? - he just kept repeating that we were pointing ours in the
wrong direction. We also tried pointing out that geo-stationary
satellites have to be over the equator - which isn't North from the UK -
but he wouldn't listen. Last we heard they sold the system off, at well
below cost price, because it wouldn't work - the purchaser fitted and
aligned it the same day, simply by reading the instructions!.
--
Nigel.

/------------------------------------------------------------\
| Nigel Goodwin | E-Mail : nigelg@lpilsley.co.uk |
| Lower Pilsley | Website : http://www.lpilsley.co.uk |
| Chesterfield | Author of WinPicProg |
| England | http://www.winpicprog.co.uk |
\------------------------------------------------------------/

"Jerzy Pastusiak" <pastupam@sci.pam.szczecin.pl> felt a nerve being touched
and wrote in message : -

Hi,

Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
..................

Thanx Nigel.
A very good story :)
Do you remember what year it was?

Has to be a while back, there was little that needed much over 1.2m after
95'.

Pzdr.J.P.

Nigel Goodwin wrote:

In message <KKbR8pAE$0kDFw3m@bancom.co.uk>, tony sayer
tony@bancom.co.uk> writes

Take 180 as true south now go in degrees towards the east and where are
you;?...

28.8 deg East of South perhaps!...


Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
demonstration in the shop.

At the same time, a shop about 10 miles away had ordered the same
system, and a few weeks later he rang us asking if we had ours working
(which we did). It turned out he was measuring from North, and not
South, when we tried to correct him he merely informed us WE were
wrong!, HE was a navigator in the RAF during the war, HE knew how to
read a compass!.

Pointing out that ours was working, and his wasn't, didn't seem to get
through? - he just kept repeating that we were pointing ours in the
wrong direction. We also tried pointing out that geo-stationary
satellites have to be over the equator - which isn't North from the UK -
but he wouldn't listen. Last we heard they sold the system off, at well
below cost price, because it wouldn't work - the purchaser fitted and
aligned it the same day, simply by reading the instructions!.

Thanks Nigel (and everyone else). I'm beginning to understand.

Hi,

Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
..................

Thanx Nigel.
A very good story :)
Do you remember what year it was?

Pzdr.J.P.

ps
Let me remaind URL of the best place for
multilingual sat calculations and more:

[ Chris Mitiu (TriaxMan) ]
http://www.satlex.net/en/

[ Calculator for azimuth and elevation angle ]
http://www.satlex.net/en/azel_calc.html

jp
________________________________________
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Nigel Goodwin wrote:

| Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
| satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
| demonstration in the shop.
|
| At the same time, a shop about 10 miles away had ordered the same system, and
| a few weeks later he rang us asking if we had ours working (which we did). It
| turned out he was measuring from North, and not South, when we tried to
| correct him he merely informed us WE were wrong!, HE was a navigator in the
| RAF during the war, HE knew how to read a compass!.
|
| Pointing out that ours was working, and his wasn't, didn't seem to get
| through? - he just kept repeating that we were pointing ours in the wrong
| direction. We also tried pointing out that geo-stationary satellites have to
| be over the equator - which isn't North from the UK - but he wouldn't listen.
| Last we heard they sold the system off, at well below cost price, because it
| wouldn't work - the purchaser fitted and aligned it the same day, simply by
| reading the instructions!.

In message <Pine.GSO.4.64.0512052058330.17971@sci.pam.szczecin.pl>,
Jerzy Pastusiak <pastupam@sci.pam.szczecin.pl> writes

Hi,

Our first experience of satellite was using a large 2M dish on a Russian
satellite, with a Luxor receiver, and feeding a SECAM TV - purely as a
..................

Thanx Nigel.
A very good story :)
Do you remember what year it was?

No, I'm afraid not, but it was a fair few years pre-Astra - I remember
the TV we used was also a Luxor, and we ordered an add-on SECAM module
for it. I even remember the guy who bought the TV afterwards!, it was a
Mr. Lee, the owner of the local Chinese restaurant, and one of the
nicest people you could ever wish to meet. Unfortunately he died a
number of years ago, and it's never been the same since :-(
--

Nigel.

/------------------------------------------------------------\
| Nigel Goodwin | E-Mail : nigelg@lpilsley.co.uk |
| Lower Pilsley | Website : http://www.lpilsley.co.uk |
| Chesterfield | Homepage for WinPicProg |
| England | http://www.winpicprog.co.uk |
\------------------------------------------------------------/

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, R. Mark Clayton wrote:

Has to be a while back, there was little that needed much
over 1.2m after 95'.

My guess is it was in '87 or '88 ?

:)

jp