Sport 24 at Sea @ 20 west

barney115

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2 Meter Prime Focus Dish .
Satellite is Inclined and only possible Reception in UK during daytime hours .
 

pedro2000uk

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2 Meter Prime Focus Dish .
Satellite is Inclined and only possible Reception in UK during daytime hours .

The size of the dish can actually go against you with it's much narrower beam width [& depth] so it goes quicker, it's pretty strong though but you might find it stays on longer on a smaller dish with it's much wider beam depth.

It was crossing the arc at about 7:30 O'clock [am or pm] & was furthest away at about 1:30 noon or midnight about 2 weeks ago, looks like it's rolling as it's crossing at nearer 6 now so 12 is furthest.

inclined_orbit_graph_20w_1aaa.jpg
 

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At the rate it's moving sideways, it could be moving as much as 1 hour every 10 days so would be at 3pms in a month and everyone should get it between 1200 noon and 6 for the football.

I don't know where the graph I posted's gone but it's easier to calculate where it's going to be by just shifting the sine wave on thay graph sideways.. although inclined orbit sats by nature aren't too predictable, a bit like a spinning top leaning then the lean starts to rotate round.
 

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It's just a question of moving the dish up and down as needed.See my post 18 and link given :)
Don't know if the video quality has improved over last couple of days but is was dreadful still on Friday.I won't be using unless desperate to see a game not covered elsewhere!
 
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Guys what are the correct details for MTN Sport 24 ?

I am getting different info from 2 well known sites.

I use to receive it up until about 13:00 on my little 80cm dish but I have just spent a hour moving my fixed dish to 20.0w and got nothing. Fixed dish is 125cm Gibby.
 

barney115

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20°West
12513 H 3320 DVB-S2 8PSK
BBC World NEWS
TFC
PRIME World
Sports 24 HD

20°West
12508 H 2081 DVB-S2 8PSK
MSNBC USA NEWS
BBC World NEWS

For me Signal appears around 18:45pm - 00:00am UK Times
but last night signals were very reduced due to the Live EPL Football match .
Good luck : )
 

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For me high gain signal after 8 pm.. and low signal during the day.. 90 cm dish in the centre of italy
 

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Seems like a pointless transmission now for Sport 24 at Sea being replaced by RTL Germany,

Not much good now for evening football either as it will be well off the satellite arc @ 8pm tonight :mad: assuming Sport 24 comes back later :confused:

NSS 7 going off the arc now

NORAD ID:
27414
LOCAL TIME:
16:15:42
UTC:
16:15:42
LATITUDE:
-0.97
LONGITUDE:
-19.99
ALTITUDE [km]:
35778.05
ALTITUDE [mi]:
22231.45
SPEED [km/s]:
3.07
SPEED [mi/s]:
1.91
AZIMUTH: 201.6 SSW
ELEVATION:
+27.5
RIGHT ASCENSION:
19h 02m 54s
DECLINATION:
-09° 28' 41''
Local Sidereal Time:
20h 20m 59s
The satellite is in day light
 
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