Re: Aiming A Satellite Dish w/o a Satellite In Place


"Barry S." <nntp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Although not related to GPS, I was wondering if anyone knew the answer
to this..

If you are putting up a satellite dish for a satellite that is not yet
in orbit. How does one aim it? Telescope? Reference to celestial
bodies? Total Station and coordinates?

Anyone know?

If you know the eventual longitude of the satellite you can use your GPS.
Just make a waypoint with the satellite's longitude and zero latitude. Set
that waypoint as the destination and the GPS wil give you the bearing to
the satellite. You can compute the elevation from the range the GPS
computes with a bit of trig.


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