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23/5/2016 at 11:11am
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Yep Vin Blanc, the Solarsat Dish was marketed by Solarsat.com, back in 1999, at the time I was working at Sky and Solarsat shipped me a sample for evaluation.
I was impressed, the Dish found the satellite first time every time, a Google for Solarsat Antenna will bring up some images.
A very simple idea, a std ofset 60cm Dish, that had a scale marked on the dish face in Deg East to West and from the LNB to the top of the Dish was a Plastic rod with numbers 1 to 5 molded in for setting of the correct elevation.
Think of a sun dial that was the basic principal.
Once you had located the satellite, the Plastic rod from the LNB could be simply unclipped of.
The Dish came with a CD which you ran on your laptop, all you had to do was enter your address, location and the satellite you want.
The program would give you the Deg, and Number to read of the Dish.
The system was 100% accurate, the only down side was that it needed a clear sunny sky, and the window for set up was from around 11am to 4pm.
Apart from that it was superb, in fact I am surprised that no one else is doing a similar set up for campers, as it could be added to almost any Dish, and the program could be used as an app in this modern age.
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Yep, I think that ship has sailed, I still have the CD though, and I can't see why a std Dish could not me modified to work in the same way, just a case of getting the markings in the correct place I guess.
The CD obviously works out the positioning from the date and time of year, along with your location, a very clever bit of software.
The Dish went into a skip when we moved and downsized house back in 2013, a bit of a waste but hey ho.
When we get to the campsite, the Dish is the last bit to be set up, a nice easy job, with glass of vin rouge in hand, and the job is usually done early evening, when it gets a bit cooler, being the Cote d Azur in July.
I don't even think Solarsat.com exists as a Chinese company any more, I still have a business card from them, so will see if the email address on that still works, but we are going back almost 17 years!
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