Thread: Sky Dropping out (No Signal Being Received)
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Old 05-01-2007, 23:24   #9
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Re: Sky Dropping out (No Signal Being Received)
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Originally Posted by Creative View Post
Its only 18000km each way! The satellite actually recieves, and remodulates onto a different frequency the signal sent to it., i.e. the uplink frequency is different to the downlink.
I've seen losses with Astra2/Eurobird 3m recieve dishes with very heavy rain. I've also seen the uplink power wound up in order to melt the snow forming on a heated Uplink dish!

The weather has no respect for man and his toys!

ok so i was only a few thousend km out
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