Thread: How far East can we reach from the US?

Originally Posted by mikelib

K'bick,
Here in New Jersey I can get up to 15W on a motorized 90 cm dish. (15W to125W) I go down by the Bay to try and get any sat east of 15W. I have locked in two stations on Atlantic Bird 2 at 8W both Arabic, with a 18X20 dish this spring. Recently I got a strong Skylogic transponder off of Atlantic Bird 1 at 12.5W, and locked in a couple of radio stations with no audio. BTW the stations on 15W are also on 97W mostly Iranian and Spanish.

I don't know if you ever used the goggle earth app in dishpointer.com, it is real interesting to see were those far east satellites are located. A matter of fact it is really interesting to see were all the American sats are located over the equator.

Yes, Dishpointer is very cool to mess around with.

Did you see the PDF file that Iceberg posted? Its a satellite map from Boeing of all the sats in orbit - very very interesting. Let me see if I can find that thread again.

Here it is:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...tml#post614094 (What satellite is where?)

This is Iceberg's sticky about what sat is where.. follow the link at the bottom of Sat list in big bold letters.

Originally Posted by K'bick

Here it is:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...tml#post614094 (What satellite is where?)

This is Iceberg's sticky about what sat is where.. follow the link at the bottom of Sat list in big bold letters.

I have the PDF tacked to the garage wall, I used that and lyngsat to try and identify and get all of the Satellites with a Americian beam.

Sorry for bombing the thread with so many replies

BTW, I am trying to get Brazilian channels in Portuguese... A great lot of them are C band, many are only beamed to South America, and other Ku channels are 'crypted so that leaves a few left on Lyngsat that look like they are in the clear if I can only get to the sats:

Record Internacional Europa (Atlantic Bird 1)
Record News (Atlantic Bird 1)
Rede Internacional de TV (Atlantic Bird 1)
TV Cancao Nova Internacional (Galaxy 19) - The only channel I get now.
TV Pampa Santa Maria (Telstar 12)
TV Sul Bahia (Atlantic Bird 1)

I'm still looking but so far have not been able to find these on other, closer sats.

Back when I had 12 ft dish (analog) C/KU I was able to pick up sats as low as 4 degrees above horizon. Had to have major accurate tracking of Clark belt. I was able to pick up BBC, Spanish, & Italian TV. I would say that most of what it will have to do w/ signal strength from the beams being sent to North America.

I always wondered what far eastern satellites someone from Nova Scotia or Newfoundland would be able to pick up . I would imagine that someone from Iceland would be able to get satellites from Europe. And would Europe be possible from Bermuda?

Until reading these threads, I never really thought about satellite DXing in this sense. So another question to throw in the mix, is there any advantage to taking a dish up a 5,000 foot mountain and see what far east or west satellites might be receivable?

I am about 30 degrees west of you and have pulled in 55.5 w C band with my Birdview.

I think you should be able to get pretty far down if you have a good line of sight to the eastern horizon. Granted, my dish is s a Birdview, but if you are aimed well with the right settings on your dish and motor, 30 west could be doable.

Taking it up a mountain might be an interesting experiment. Just on theory, other than maybe getting a good look at both horizons, I don't think it will make that much difference. Going far east or west, you still have to angle through a thick section of the atmosphere. Maybe the satellites near your longitude you'd get a benefit.

Originally Posted by K'bick

Sorry for bombing the thread with so many replies

BTW, I am trying to get Brazilian channels in Portuguese... A great lot of them are C band, many are only beamed to South America, and other Ku channels are 'crypted so that leaves a few left on Lyngsat that look like they are in the clear if I can only get to the sats:

Record Internacional Europa (Atlantic Bird 1)
Record News (Atlantic Bird 1)
Rede Internacional de TV (Atlantic Bird 1)
TV Cancao Nova Internacional (Galaxy 19) - The only channel I get now.
TV Pampa Santa Maria (Telstar 12)
TV Sul Bahia (Atlantic Bird 1)

I'm still looking but so far have not been able to find these on other, closer sats.

Here are pics from my receiver of Telstar 12, at the time I scanned in the channels TV Pampa was on two transponders.

Originally Posted by Bill_KY

I always wondered what far eastern satellites someone from Nova Scotia or Newfoundland would be able to pick up . I would imagine that someone from Iceland would be able to get satellites from Europe. And would Europe be possible from Bermuda?

Until reading these threads, I never really thought about satellite DXing in this sense. So another question to throw in the mix, is there any advantage to taking a dish up a 5,000 foot mountain and see what far east or west satellites might be receivable?

Hey why not go for it. I find DXing satellites with small dishes intriguing. Atlantic Bird 2 at 8 W is on the equator off of the coast of West Africa so pulling in two TV stations on the American transponders with a 18x20" dish is quite an accomplishment

I also listen to short-wave in the winter time and I have a scanner that I take in the car to listen to Public Safety broadcast.


So many signals so little time.
Mike Lib