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

In article <45945069$0$8736$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Coon" <mjcoon@@connectfee.co.uk> wrote:

Bob L wrote:
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.

That's interesting; are you assuming that the satellite altitude is to be
entered as well (which you didn't mention).

Any satellite that you can point a dish at (as in "no tracking") is in
geosynchronous orbit, and the altitude is fixed and well-known.

Isaac
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