What satelite was this

Marty

Set up an old dish and receiver for my father in law at the weekend. According to my compass l should have been picking up astra 28, but the channels were Vox, RTL, Eurosport, etc and all foreigh.
I think the set up is an old analogue system (amstrad), so l took it down again. Could l have been picking up a different sat? Anyone any thoughts

Ronan|Raven

You could be picking up Astra on 23.5

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Marty
I think the set up is an old analogue system (amstrad), so l took it down again. Could l have been picking up a different sat? Anyone any thoughts

if its an analogue system then you were seeing Astra 1 at 19.2° East

there is no analogue transmissions on Astra 2 btw

krissrodriguez

19.2E astra definetly...go further east.. for 28.2

watty

remember 28.2E is angle around equator from Greenwich 0 line. It is NOT the compass bearing in Ireland.

E.g. in Limerick, the Satellite at due south is actually at 8W.

go http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/astra2d.shtml

Click on Ireland till you get the "your latitude" and "your Longtitude" correct

For 8W and 52N (Limerick approx) the compass bearing and elevation is:
Azimuth= 137 degree (approx)
Elevation = 21 degree (approx)

Also you need to correct up to 6 degrees for magnetic north / true north variation.

My steel gas bulk tank, 8ft away from dishes makes the compass near useless. It points at the tank!