Sat Radio

[Ducati ST2]

Being a newby to this medium could someone please explain what I need to get
this stuff. Am a ham so have a tower so what else do I need, all help
appreciated.
I am located in Victoria Australia.
Lushy

[Tock]

"Ducati ST2" <showbag@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:418aa128$1@news.alphalink.com.au...
> Being a newby to this medium could someone please explain what I need to
> get
> this stuff. Am a ham so have a tower so what else do I need, all help
> appreciated.
> I am located in Victoria Australia.
> Lushy


If you want to listen to XMSR or Sirius satellite radio, you need to be
under where the satellite is broadcasting. From what I understand, they
put a satellite in geosynchronous orbit above the planet (so it stays in one
place relative to the earth's surface), then send a signal up from the
ground, then it gets rebroadcast from the satellite. So there's no
atmospheric skip you can take advantage of to listen to the US radio
companies. Dunno if there's anything similar in Australia . . .

[Fritz Wue]

>> Being a newby to this medium could someone please explain what I need to
>> get
>> this stuff. Am a ham so have a tower so what else do I need, all help
>> appreciated.
>> I am located in Victoria Australia.
>> Lushy

Hi OM,

first thing is to find if there is anything of interest on the air for you.
Check i.e. the Optus satellites here:
http://www.lyngsat.com/asia.html

There are crypted and non crypted tv and radio services.
( Check at the bottom, FTA= free to air )
The footprints are in the column "Beam".
You will find there are 4GHz and 12GHz signals
which need different dish sizes and downconverters.

Another source:
http://www.satcodx.com/

Basically the antenna receives the signal and feeds
a wideband if in the 1 to 2 GHz range to the satellite receiver.
The receiver does the channel selection and decoding.

A tower is not needed.
The satellite beam will reach down to the ground,
but there must be free sight to the satellite. ;o)

In this newsgroup you will mainly find discussions about
north american satellite radio which is a different satellite technique
and cannot be received in australia or here in europe.

We have something similar we can receive in europe,
but in Victoria no chance.
http://www.worldspace.com/coveragemaps/index.html

XM, Sirius and WorldSpace use a different technique.
WorldSpace transmits on L-Band just below 1.5GHz
as a Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) service
which again needs a different receiver and antenna.
http://www.worlddab.org/

I don't know if you have something similar in Australia.

You will also find a lot of infos here:
http://www.satdx.com/
http://www.drdish.com/features/

I know, a lot of stuff, but very interesting,
much more up there than on shortwave.

73 Fritz -.. -.- -.... --.- ..

[.]

> In this newsgroup you will mainly find discussions about
> north american satellite radio which is a different satellite technique
> and cannot be received in australia or here in europe.

Please, please do feel free to discuss satellite radio outside of North
America! Firebird who posted a couple of days ago is from Australia so
maybe he will give you some insight as well. If I knew enough about
satellite radio outside of North America, I'd post more stuff about it. The
group is still very new and I don't want to get into the habit of pushing
people from outside of North America away. The group is for everything
satellite radio related, not just XM and Sirius :)

While you can't get XM or Sirius in Australia, I've read that parts have had
luck picking up Worldspace. Besides that, there's the FTA radio stations
which can be received with a $200 receiver (or thereabouts) and a 80cm dish
for the Ku stuff and the C band stuff would probably require at the very
least 1.2m but more commonly 2 - 3m. The nice thing about FTA is, is that
there is no monthly cost. It's just the initial cost of the equipment and
then after that you're good to go.

[Fritz Wue]

> Please, please do feel free to discuss satellite radio outside of North
> America!

Hi "." <.@.> at Rogers Cable Inc.,

no problem, hope you did not misunderstand me,
I was just refering to what I read here most time.
Will stay here as I'm very interested in Sirius and XM etc.
although I only have a subscription for WorldSpace.

There is also a european equivalent to this group:
alt.satellite.radio.europe
but not much traffic there yet.

Fritz

[Firebird]

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"." <.@.> wrote in message
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> > In this newsgroup you will mainly find discussions about
> > north american satellite radio which is a different satellite technique
> > and cannot be received in australia or here in europe.
>
> Please, please do feel free to discuss satellite radio outside of North
> America! Firebird who posted a couple of days ago is from Australia so
> maybe he will give you some insight as well. If I knew enough about
> satellite radio outside of North America, I'd post more stuff about it.
The
> group is still very new and I don't want to get into the habit of pushing
> people from outside of North America away. The group is for everything
> satellite radio related, not just XM and Sirius :)
>
> While you can't get XM or Sirius in Australia, I've read that parts have
had
> luck picking up Worldspace. Besides that, there's the FTA radio stations
> which can be received with a $200 receiver (or thereabouts) and a 80cm
dish
> for the Ku stuff and the C band stuff would probably require at the very
> least 1.2m but more commonly 2 - 3m. The nice thing about FTA is, is that
> there is no monthly cost. It's just the initial cost of the equipment and
> then after that you're good to go.
>
>