satellite finder

[gozzy]

Anyone know of a satellite finder program for the Diamond ???

[Rudegar]

well of cause the phone can't receive signals from satellites as it's not
a sat receiver but you can get some guidance using programs like pocketsat+ and satCE

mobile phone never have contact with satellites apart from gps they communicate with local land-based antenna towers

[mjaxa]

If you mean the GPS satellites (you need to be more precise in your question) then search for Nadavi GPS tool. As well, a good one is Visual GPS.

[gozzy]

Sorry
Meant TV sallelite finder

Just bought a portable dish for the caravan and was wondering if there was a program that can give you the direction of the various sattelites (ie Astra/hotbird) using current GPS location

[adamwest]

There was a good website for this when I was looking into installing my own a while ago, you put your location in and it shows you what angle and direction to point your dish to on google maps I think, it looked pretty good anyway.
I can't remember what the site was called I'm afraid but there is lots of info out there.
I haven't yet got freesat tho

[adamwest]

http://www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk/

this looks like the sort of web site you need

[Rudegar]

the 2 programs i stated does that with gps and such
but mind you no gps can tell which direction you are standing
only where you are so it's not really that good as sat finder

[gozzy]

Well using HTC GPS tool to get current lat / long and this http://www.satsig.net/sf.htm should work

[Grajey]

If you have web access on your phone this might be useful

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Type in your address and it shows your location, Sat data and dish setup info.

HTH

[gozzy]

If you have web access on your phone this might be useful

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Type in your address and it shows your location, Sat data and dish setup info.

HTH

only prob is it says best with 1mb connection

[Rudegar]

I tried the 2 apps I wrote about
and I tried the various discpointer sites
but never could get a lock on astra2d before
I took the whole tv out to the disc and got
help from a guy who had more xp and a better
sat receiver which showed both signal lvl and signal quality
rather then mine which only showed signal %

[Sulten]

the only thing the phone can do is if you go to the website get the settings that you need set the dish setting and the only thing the phone could do is be a compass to kinda show you what direction to point the dish.

Im not sure if they have a application for a compass but it would be nice. well if they do im sure they have N, E W and etc but not all the other numbers that you may need to point a dish like 185 SE