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Your dish pointing angles (azimuth, elevation and polarisation/skew) for all Geo satellites

This web page produces a text file, on your device, comprising a list of your visible geostationary satellites, with dish pointing angles, azimuth, elevation and polarisation.

The page needs your location: latitude and longitude. If you click the button below, it will try to access your lat/long data, in your device, using your GPS receiver, or with less accuracy, the location of the nearest cell tower or your IP address.

This all depends on your type of OS, browser and privacy settings. If you get a message saying "Allow for this site" click yes. If you get no response or "Not allowed" message you might be able to fix it by changing your Privacy Settings. Different OS: Windows, Android, iOS and different browsers: Chrome, Edge and Safari all seem to have different default settings and adjusting these settings may solve the problem. If you can't get the automatic process to work I have made it possible to input your lat/long manually.

First try the automatic button method:

If successful, you will see lat/long and the accuracy above. If the accuracy range is more than +/- 25 km you might try some alternative method. Google Earth is one possibility to get something more accurate. In Google Earth: do Tools/Settings/Display settings/Lat-long format/Decimal. Write down your Lat-Long for future reference, e.g. +40.1234 north and -90.1234 west.

In the two Lat / Long boxes above you may optionally edit the figures manually, before proceeding.

Now decide if you want to include low elevation satellites and those with inclined orbits. Leave the radio buttons unchecked for default settings.

Include satellites lower than 5 deg elevation

Include satellites with inclination greater than 0.3 deg

The next step will download a list of geo satellites from my server, plus their orbit locations, then calculate your dish pointing angles for each satellite and then display the list.

Once you can see the list above you may highlight (typically right mouse click down and move mouse) the text on your browser screen and do Copy (typically Ctrl C) and save the text somewhere. There is also the possibility of saving the text direct to a file on your device, but this does not work on iPads and probably not on some other devices either. The local file saving process does works on my 13 year old PC with Windows 10 and Chrome browser.

You should (*) now see a pop up "Save As" window where you may edit your local destination folder and destination file name.

Note: Azimuth angles are relative to true North. ( North = 0 or 359.9 deg, East = 90. South=180, West=270).

This page is new June 2024. Please tell me if it works (and what device, operating system and browser) plus any problems or suggestions. eric@satsig.net The page works for me with Windows 10 and Chrome. Thanks.

(*) 7 June 2024 21:09 There are problems downloading the output text file to Apple iPad devices. Not resolved.

► Page created 1 Jun 2024, last amended 30 Jun 2024

14 Jun 2024: added inclination to output and optional exclusion of satellites with inclination greater that 0.3 deg
30 June 2024: added display of output data on screen for people with devices that wont save the data direct to a local file.

Privacy: This page does not upload your location to the server.