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    Default Useful aids for satellite enthusiasts and others

    For many years now, I have found the following websites to be a good source of useful satellite-related information.

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    Lyngsat Satellite Chart - locations, frequencies, transmission formats, names of channels etc.

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    Enter your address and the name of the satellite of interest. Then click on the Google map provided, in order to obtain your latitude, longitude, magnetic deviation, satellite location (elevation angle, longitudinal position).

    Example:

    Address: Sydney, Australia
    Latitude: -33.8671°
    Longitude: 151.2071°

    Satellite: 160.0E Optus D1
    Elevation: 49.5°
    Azimuth (true): 15.5°
    Azimuth (magn.): 2.8°

    You can click and drag the marker and zoom in - zoom out.

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    This website features sections for looking up Satellites, Footprints, Charts, Packages, Links, News, etc.

    4/. where you will find - calculators, links and news groups, such as ...

    Antenna look angles calculator
    Downlinkbuget for DVB-S and DVB-S2 calculator
    Satellite tracker based on two line elements (TLE)
    LNB saturation calculator
    Power reaching the satellite receiver
    Antenna pointing data from 11-parameter ephemeris data
    Carrier to noise vs Eb\No for DVB-S and DVB-S2
    DVB-S/DVB-S2 bitrates,bandwidth and symbol rate calculator
    Satellite eclipse calculator
    Sun and Moon position calculator
    Sunrise, sunset and sun transit calculator
    Conversion between dBmW and dBuV
    G Tsys calculator
    Noise Figure Temperature converter
    Offset antenna efficiency and offset angle
    Antenna Efficiency calculator
    Antenna gain and beamwidth
    Gainloss vs Antenna point error
    Loss of gain with antenna surface irregularities
    etc. etc. ...

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    The online edition of The Satellite Encyclopedia, devoted to unmanned artificial Earth satellites.

    The encyclopedia is subscription based.

    TSE (short name for "The Satellite Encyclopedia") is a hypertext document built around a dictionary of over 3600 satellites. Each satellite fact sheet contains basic information (launch date, official identification...) and extensive description of the payload. TSE is updated every 3 months.

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    The Global standard for Digital Television

    The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 250 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are available on every continent with more than 500 million DVB receivers deployed.

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    ETSI produces globally applicable standards for Information & Communications Technologies including fixed, mobile, radio, broadcast, internet, aeronautical and other areas.

    ETSI is recognised as an official European Standards Organisation by the European Union.

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    This should almost be a sticky....but who reads those! Nice write up.

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    Very good and helpful links.
    Thanks.

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    well put together and will help alot of people even those of us that keep losing the links

    Leroys idea sounds good

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