Short: Satellite Finder for TV Author: David Haigh Uploader: dave haigh1 demon co uk Type: misc/sci Architecture: m68k-amigaos Long: Description:- This piece of software will determine for the the user the positioning of a satellite dish to pick up the most common TV satellites in the clarke belt. These include Astra(SKY), Thor, Intelsat and Eutelsat. This program is of most use to someone who either does not have a current satellite tv system installed and would like to install their own, or someone who would like to install a motorised dish so as to pick up the many varied programs and satellites in orbit around us. Certain programs may require extra decoders the most common being D2MAC. These are available from a wide variety of sources as well s decoder cards for the same. Many channels are in the clear and so an old SKY satellite system will suffice with really a minimum 80cm dish here in the UK. The software requires you to know the latitude and longitude of your home. If you live in the UK then you have it lucky as I have installed a selection of major cities on the pull down menu. Simply select the city nearest to your latitude and longitude, or type in your latitude and longitude into the boxes. Next click on the scroll bar to select which satellite you wish to view. Then click on run. You will then get two results from the program. The azimuth or the bearing from south (a +ve figure means degrees to the east, a -ve figure means degrees to the west) and an elevation angle for the dish figure. Simply set your dish up using these figures and you should hit the satellite first time. This software is still in its infancy but should give you a taste of what is to come. To do:- 1 Incorporate a map to select your home site on. 2 fully debug the program and tidy the interface 3 Incorporate a save feature 4 Add more satellites 5 Add major world cities to menu Copyright Oh dear the boring bit. Well this program is cardware that means I require no payment if this program is used soley for personal private use only. All I require is a letter saying what you thought of the program and your geographical location (to see how far round the world this program gets). You could if you prefer send me an EMail to:- dave@haigh1.demon.co.uk Surface mail to:- D. Haigh Automotive Solutions 14 St Hildas View Audenshaw Manchester M34 5JJ England You may distribute this program to anyone you meet as much as you like. But you may not charge for this software above the cost of reasonable duplication and mailing i.e. not more than £2 UK sterling. You may not put this on a cover disk of a magazine without first contacting me and asking for PRIOR permission. You may not distribute this software with a software bundle without first contacting me. The only software collection that may place this software on its CD's is Aminet. This software is still in it's beta raw stage and I cannot be held responsible for any errors or ommisions to the software or any damage or losses incurred whilst using this software. I cannot be held responsible for any loss of data or accountable for the softwares suitability for any purpose. In other words you use this software entirely at YOUR OWN RISK. If this program is used by a company then I will require payment for its use current rates are available at the above addresses. You may not dissassemble this software or alter it in any way. But if you ask me nicely I may release the source to you. You must also only distribute the full archive contents which inlude:- 1 Satellite.txt - this file 2 Satsearch - the executeable