Dish sizes recommended for PAS-1R LinkStar Africa service

The coverage map shows the dish sizes recommended for PAS-1R service.

Look carefully at the map and consider your location.

If you are in the extreme outer contour you will need a larger dish compared with the smaller sizes required nearer the centre.
Beam contours are 43, 45, 47, 48, 49 dBW downlink eirp.

Provisional VSAT dish sizes:    Inner area 1.2m,  outer area 1.8m diameter.

Service using the business quality ViaSat Linkstar modem using 42 Mbits/s DVB outlink and RCS return link.  Ku band.

Dish size must meet two requirements:
1. Dish size be able to receive the outlink with an adequate rain margin.  
2. Dish size and BUC power must be sufficient for the uplink bit rate required.

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► Page created 6 Nov 2004, amended 20 Aug 2005