Title :
Look angle contours of small transportable satellite earth stations for Arab Gulf countries
Author :
Samarkandy, Mohammad K. ; Bakry, Saad H. ; Zawawi, Naim B. ; Nasser, Ali A.
Author_Institution :
King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
The authors present look angle contours over Arab Gulf countries to enable engineers and technicians to point any earth station directly (without any calculations) towards a given satellite in the geostationary orbit. Contours over Arab Gulf countries have been presented for ARABSAT and SABS satellite systems. These contour plots could be used efficiently for transportable and television receive-only earth stations to be deployed anywhere in rural and isolated areas. The proposed method could generally be applied to any area served by a given satellite
Keywords :
mobile radio systems; satellite ground stations; ARABSAT; Arab Gulf countries; SABS; geostationary orbit; isolated areas; look angle contours; rural areas; satellite earth stations; television receive-only earth stations; transportable earth stations; Artificial satellites; Azimuth; Cities and towns; Distributed computing; Earth; Orbital calculations; Satellite antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite ground stations; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1989, IEEE 39th
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1989.40129
