COMPLETELY UPDATED IN 2008 - Database and Calculation Software for the Satellite Industry
THE DATABASE SECTION
has information on over 500 satellites (orbital location, frequencies, EIRP, G/T, SFD, bandwidth, programming etc.) and 9,000 companies (address, tel, fax, web, products, services and contact names etc.) and 19,000 executives in the commercial satellite industry. Containing a very fast search ability plus over 800 hundred EIRP, G/T & SFD maps in color not published anywhere else. |
THE CALCULATION SECTION
Has full up-down digital link budget calculators with input provision for uplink power control (UPC), ALC, various interferences and multiple carriers. Finds HPA size, uplink power requirements, bandwidth and power usage per carrier. Calculates atmospheric losses and rain fade margins for any desired availability on uplink and downlink. Handles BPSK, QPSK, M-PSK or M-QAM with any FEC code rate. Determines power or bandwidth limited modes and calculates the power equivalent bandwidth, if appropriate. Provision for RS codes or 'Turbo' modems. Option for rain up AND rain down scenarios where uplink and downlink are from/to the same city. |
Database Section
Users can search from amongst Company Information, Satellite Details, What's On Satellite, Uplink Providers, Country Standards and a full List of Executives.
COMPANY INFORMATION
This section includes information on:
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES - Government Regulators & Administrators with contact names and addresses for domestic and international public network services; Information on each country's TV & electrical standards, Cabled Household Numbers etc.; State, Provincial & Local Authorities.
SPACECRAFT - Launch Vehicle capabilities and a four year international analysis of planned launch schedules; Manufacturers of Propulsion Systems, Spacecraft, Satellites and Satellite Components.
MANUFACTURERS OF SATELLITE GROUND EQUIPMENT - Amplifiers; Antennas; Baseband Equipment; Cable; Converters; Complete Earth Stations; Feed Systems; Filters; Modems; Modulators; Multiplexers; Positioners; Power Supplies; Processors; Software; Teleconferencing Products; Test & Diagnostic Equipment; Transmitters; VSATĀs and many other products. Includes descriptive details on the fast growing DBS market
NETWORK SYSTEMS - System Integrators; Corporate & Business Networks; VSAT Systems & Management; Videoconferencing. Global Positioning System; Mobile Telephones, Video & Voice Systems; Transportable Equipment.
USERS AND PROVIDERS OF SATELLITE SERVICES - Satellite Programmers; Broadcasters; Major Cable Systems; Educational & Religious Programmers; Distributors of Hardware; Transmission Services; Transponder Brokers; Common Carriers - all the providers of satellite-delivered video voice and data transmission services.
GENERAL SERVICES - Comprehensive contact and descriptive information on Technical and Consulting Services; Installation and Mainenance Companies, Associations; Legal Services; Insurance Brokers and Underwriters; Research Centers; Financial Institutions; Publishers.
SATELLITE DETAILS
This section includes information on:
SATELLITE OPERATORS - System Operators including Intelsat, PanAmSat, Inmarsat, Intersputnik Telesat Canada, Eutelsat, Arabsat, Palapa, Optus and many others; Complete details on planned satellite systems with full details on their complex operations.
GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES - Complete information on over 500 satellites including their mass, dimension, location, date of launch, number & type of transponders, users, operators, and many other relevant facts.
EIRP MAPS - Invaluable EIRP, SFD & G/T color maps giving essential engineering & technical information for all operational and most planned satellite systems.
WHAT’S ON SATELLITE
This is a complete guide to all operating satellites. You get the operating frequencies; video, voice or data activity; format used; transponder allocations and FEC.
UPLINK FACILITIES
This is a complete guide to all the companies that provide uplink and transmission services. Includes the location; operator name & address; satellite orientation; capabilities & services provided.
COUNTRY STANDARDS
Information on the standars of satellite and broadcasting which are used worldwide. Also includes general telecommunications and other useful information.
LIST OF EXECUTIVES
Want to create a mailing list? Here are the contact details (which includes what the companies do) on over 19,000 executives. Create a marketing and sales campaign exactly designed for your products or services.
Database Section
Used by Broadcasters, SNG operators, VSAT designers, dish installation companies and dealers serving the satellite TV industry. Calculation capacity including dish aiming, link budget analysis and solar outage prediction provide the backbone of the package. The link budget facilities employ rain attenuation and atmospheric absorption prediction modeling even for low elevations. These and other useful features, such as an integral magnetic variation calculation and over 30,000 stored town/city coordinates, combine to enable a system to be either designed for any global location. Designed to be very simple to use, it works just like any other Windows application with pull-down menus, toolbar for shortcuts, dialog boxes, text and graphics windows, a status bar and a comprehensive help system.
You can calculate the following:
Digital Link Budgets: To view the output of a typical Digital Link Budget
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Full up-down digital link budget calculators with input provision for uplink power control (UPC), ALC, various interferences and multiple carriers. Finds HPA size, uplink power requirements, bandwidth and power usage per carrier. Calculates atmospheric losses and rain fade margins for any desired availability on uplink and downlink. Handles BPSK, QPSK, M-PSK or M-QAM with any FEC code rate. Determines power or bandwidth limited modes and calculates the power equivalent bandwidth, if appropriate. Provision for RS codes or 'Turbo' modems. Option for rain up AND rain down scenarios where uplink and downlink are from/to the same city.
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Features included:
- Digital link budgets for Satellite TV, SNG, radio and data
- FM link budgets
- Sun outage prediction (single site and satellite)
- Sun outage batch file handling (multiple sites or multiple satellites)
- Antenna aiming
- Dual/multi feed positioning
- Dish sizing
- Polar mount alignment
- EIRP, SFD and G/T map viewer
- Automatic magnetic variation calculation
- Solar transit times
- Off-axis gains
- Rain attenuation model (ITU-R P.618-8 or Crane)
- Calculates atmospheric absorption and tropospheric scintillation losses
- Loads and displays decoded two line element (TLE) files (SGP4/SDP4 model)
- Fast batch processing of up to 500 GEO link budgets
- Ionospheric scintillation estimator
- Four satellite, ASI calculator within GEO 'bent pipe' link budget modules
- Automatic 'Antenna Noise' calculation option
- Tabulation of R0.01 values and rain attenuation for a selected country
- Highlighting of key link budget results
- Non-reflector gains and effective apertures accepted
- Polarization offset shown in 'Satellites above Horizon' listings
- Generates numerous graphs and tables
- Numerous satellite based calculation tools such as G/T and off axis antenna gains.
The software can calculate digital link budgets for GEO satellite 'bent-pipe' and regenerative transponders as well as snapshot digital link budgets for some NON GEO varieties. Minimum system requirements are Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (Intel) with at least 800*600 display resolution and any i586 (Pentium) or later. Will run on older processors.
Link Budget Calculators
Full up-down digital link budget calculators with provision for interference input, uplink power control (UPC), ALC, E.S. intermodulation. interference and multiple carriers per HPA. Finds HPA size, uplink power requirements, bandwidth and power usage per carrier. Calculates atmospheric losses and rain fade margins for any desired availability on uplink and downlink. Optional auto-estimation of output back off and transponder intermodulation interference. Handles BPSK, QPSK, M-PSK or M-QAM with any FEC code rate. Determines if transponder is power or bandwidth limited and calculates the power equivalent bandwidth if appropriate. Provision for RS codes or 'Turbo' modems. Option for rain up AND rain down scenarios where uplink and downlink are from/to the same city.
Rain Attenuation Models
ITU-R P.618-8, Crane global or Crane revised two component models are supported without any requirement to consult maps. These models are used for link budgets, graphs and tables and have simple radio button selection. For the ITU-R model it is also possible to enter locally obtained R0.01 values in mm/h.
Atmospheric Losses
For low elevation paths, atmospheric absorption and tropospheric scintillation losses are significant. The program calculates these parameters as standard but there is also an option to zero these parameters for comparison with other link budget tools that neglect them.
Tabulate Availability v Rain Attenuation
Generates tables of availability, rain attenuation, XPD and expected downtimes.
Separate Rain Attenuation Module
Quickly calculate XPD, rain attenuation and noise increase due to rain for use with other software and spreadsheets. Tabulate rate tables for any selected country.
Antenna Aiming
Calculates elevation, true azimuth, compass bearing and polarization offset for any geostationary satellite from any location. No need to know magnetic variation values, it's all automated. Finds minimum and maximum antenna elevation for satellites in inclined orbits.
Quick Dish Sizing
Short form downlink budgets digital TV broadcasts using GEO satellites with minimum dish size optimizer.
Sun Outage Prediction
Presents accurate annual lists of date and time windows for geostationary satellite/ground station combinations worldwide. All time zones supported. Output in Local Civil Time or GMT. Please note, this module is not suitable for elderly satellites placed in inclined orbits. There is also a batch file processes to produce listings for either multiple sites, or multiple satellites, ready for pasting into MS Excel or a similar spreadsheet program.
Dual / Multi Feed Calculations
Finds relative satellite and feed spacing relative to boresight. Calculates antenna "squinting" efficiency for link budget. Execute any number of times for multiple feeds. Tabulate dual feed calculations for major towns and cities in a country with average value.
Footprint Maps
Over 500 colour G/T, SFD and EIRP footprint maps included in BMP, GIF, PCX, TIFF and JPEG formats. More can be added. Maps can be exported to paste into reports etc.
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Flexible Output Options
Prints reports with your company name at the top or output may be copied and pasted into MS Excel or similar as tab delimited text for unlimited customisation. Reports and tables may also be saved in HTML for uses such as emailing, uploading to web sites or importing into other applications.
Reference Maps
Displays world and regional maps of ITU and Crane rain-climatic zones, seasonal water vapour density and mean surface temperatures.
Modified Polar Mounts
Locate true north/south anywhere in the world using the sun's position as your guide. Calculates modified polar mount angles for any latitude with notes on installation.
Wind Loading
Calculates overturning moment (OTM) and ballast required for a given wind speed. Assumes antenna is pole mounted using a base frame weighted with concrete blocks.
Overcome Local Magnetic Anomalies
Select monthly tabulations of the local time when the sun and a selected satellite have the same azimuth. Useful where local magnetic anomalies may affect compass readings.
Tabulate Availability v Rain Attenuation
Generates tables of availability, rain attenuation, XPD and expected downtimes.
Data Files
Supplied with a satellite data file and over 30,000 town and city records arranged in over 200 separate country data files. Easy browse transfer of data to input forms. All databases may be user edited. The satellite data is also updated and may be downloaded at any time. Easy browse transfer of data from database section to input forms. All databases may be user edited.
Table Generator
Tabulates modified polar mount angles, antenna look angles to any geostationary satellite from multiple town/city locations in a selected country, 'visible' satellites from either a single location or two sites.
Graph Plots
Plots graphs relating to digital modulation, ITU-R or Crane rain attenuation models, BER v Eb/No, atmospheric absorption, dish parabolas, lobe patterns and much more. There is also a BER v Eb/No reference chart for Reed Solomon concatenated Viterbi codes and 'turbo' codecs at various FEC rates.
Calculations and Conversions
Performs often used calculations and conversions, including antenna focal distances, rain attenuation with noise increase, off-axis gains and power spectral densities. Includes an editable mathematical expression evaluator.
Tool Bar
Includes convenient toolbar with speed buttons for most often used menu selections. Menu option for quick opening of the six most recently used files.
Multiple Document Interface
Allows mixes of link budgets, maps, graphs and tables within a single application window. Ideal for comparing link budgets.
Persistent Input Data
Input forms under the Graph, Table and Calculate menus have persistence of input data by default but can be turned off.
Batch Link Budget Calculator
Calculates a full set of GEO digital link budget output parameters. It's like running a standard link budget program up to 500 times with different data. Can save hours of tedious link budget work compared to using point-to-point link budget programs.
Large Help File
40,000 word technical help file packed with easy-to-understand theory and practice. Ideal as a staff training or self learning aid for those new to the industry. Help file is fully context sensitive by using the F1 key or selecting the button on any active input field. Option to call up any other third party help file, directly from the application's menu.
Total cost of a single user SatFinder licence with four database updates thoroughout the year is $1,250. For Information on multiple site licenses -
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YOUR SITE LICENSE INCLUDES:
- YOU GET 4 CD's - one every 3 months (a new database is created every quarter)
- YOU ALSO GET a free current edition of the International Satellite Directory (Value $495.00)
- PLUS YOU ALSO GET free access to our OnLine database maintained on a monthly update basis.(Value $425.00)
All output can be directly pasted into common Windows packages, as either common delimited text or tiff images for editing, customization or to be included in other documents.
For more information call SatNews Publishers at: Tel: (707) 939-9306 Fax: (707) 939-9235 or you can also reach us by e-mail at orders@satnews.com
