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Embedding the SatPointer widget with custom colours and your logoFor website owners serving Australian audiences, embedding an interactive satellite alignment tool can turn a simple blog post into a working utility. Whether…
Spotting dish warping with SatPointer before signal loss hitsThe Australian outback and coastal fringe punish satellite dishes in ways European installers rarely encounter. Inland Queensland can swing a metal surface…
Aligning a Dish for Thaicom-6 at 78.5°E in AustraliaThaicom-6 sits in geostationary orbit at 78.5° east, carrying services across parts of Asia and nearby regions. For an Australian installation, the satellite…
to use SatPointer for a remote site survey using GPS coordinatesA remote site survey in Australia often starts with nothing more than a set of GPS coordinates sent over email from a station manager, a mining camp…
Using SatPointer To Check LNB Offset In Extended Satellite BandsSatellite reception depends on more than pointing a dish at the right arc position. The low-noise block downconverter (LNB) must translate the received radio…
Pointing a dish at Galaxy-16 at 99.0°W using SatPointerGalaxy-16 sits in geostationary orbit above the equator at 99 degrees west longitude, a slot long associated with North American broadcasting, US cable…
Calculating Dish Tilt for a Polar Mount Using SatPointerA polar mount gives a satellite dish a single rigid axis that follows the geostationary arc across the sky, so once it is set up correctly it can be rotated by…
Measuring true azimuth with a compass adjustment using SatPointerPointing a satellite dish accurately is rarely as simple as swinging it towards the horizon where the signal feels strongest. In suburban backyards, on rural…
Aligning your dish for Inmarsat I-4 F3 at 98° EastInmarsat I-4 F3 sits in geostationary orbit at 98° East longitude, serving the Indian Ocean region with L-band mobile satellite services. For Australian…
Reading SatPointer's sun outage prediction graph for Australian sitesSun outages — sometimes called solar fades or sun transits — are short windows each year when the sun drifts directly behind a geostationary satellite relative…