Hello All, E 10-B still not at geostationary orbit. Given its unhelpful changed launch location, it's still taking a long time? But hopefully saving station keeping thruster fuel in the meantime. Rega

Hi guys not sure if this is the right site for this post, apologies if not, but looking for a supplier of a new satellite dish 1mtr or 1.2mtr whichever is available, does anyone know a good supplier p

Good afternoon, Does anyone on the list have a view (in 2023 land) of a current spec for the reception pc in a two computer system? I’ve read through David Taylor’s page on this (as well as all the ad

Could some one point me to the addtap.bat script that should, apparently, come with CrazyCat's BDAData software, please. I'm setting up a TBS 6903 card on a Windows 10 machine, to receive both Basic a

Hi, I published a maintenance version of EUMETCastView (+ EUMETCastVideo) (version 1.5.7) where the country overlays of the generated videos are correct. You can find the latest version at https://git

Dear All, we all get older and cannot climb ladders and roofs at some point. The happy ones have their dishes on a flat roof accessible by a door or even better at GND level. Last night I looked again

Hello Hugo, I assume you will have to make some internal changes to the program to accommodate the Meteosat 10/11 swap. Meteosat 10 now FES sat from this morning. It still thinks Meteosat 10 (MSG3 in

Just want to report my findings with the new Inverto LNB. I was running a twin HGLN Inverto LNB (excellent results) but wanting an additional output I opted to upgrade to a quad LNB and decided to onc

The CTH and MPE pictures disappeared from my system. Can anybody help please. Kobus Botha- South Africa

I am using the SR1 bought through GEO some years ago mostly through the day time only. Until recently when switched on the lock 1 led would change from red to green within a minute or so. Now after th

I understand that for EUMETCast EUMETSAT recommend adding route command like: route -p -4 ADD 224.0.0.0 mask 240.0.0.0 192.168.238.238 I'm thinking that if you have multiple network adapters, would it

For those those using the MSG Data Manager, I am hoping that the procedure used before will be all that is needed: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On your Rapid Scanning instance, March 13, 15:00

Dear All, while tracking iceberg A-76 with Sentinel-3X I found a major bug in SPS4.1. In LEOstuff.py the Sentinel-3A/B/X file per pass gathering code has a line dt += timedelta(minutes = dMin) which a

Hi Ernst With the upcoming mission swap between Meteosats 10 and 11 I assume that your GEO scripts will need changing Am I right in thinking that all we need to do is just swap the MSG3 and MSG4 scrip

Treated myself to a TBS 5927 (to join my SR1, TBS 5925 and TBS 6903 !). Can anyone confirm that they no longer come with an internal fan. I know when they first appeared that they had a very noisy fan

I'm trying to get SPS working with the MTG-I1 sample data currently being sent on HVS-2, but I'm having problems. Perhaps someone who has this working can advise? I have a GOES-16-Carribean Python scr

Dear All, years back I had a Triax TD80 and later a Triax TD110. At that time Triax antenna mounts were close to unusable regarding elevation adjustments. Therefore I machined some extras to improve/b

Hello Nigel, Well it was your turn today to end up in the 'centre cone.' And, Cyprus was almost on the line of 'total sun/satellite/dish co-linearity.' Regards, John

For those of you using the MSG Data Manager there is an update to the locations of the new Telespazio uplink stations for EUMETCast. Simply copy the file Cities_EUMETSAT.dat over the existing one in y

Hi, I am thinking about testing reception of EUMETCAST Basic service at the Azores, island, Portugal. Going to look into a availability and cost of a 90 cm to 1.2m KU antenna/LNB while here on island.