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bartender
04-12-2007, 11:37 AM
Found this great site and thought I would forward it on for others to use:

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Has a great Google Maps API interface so you plug in your address, select which satellite you want to point towards and it draws a pretty blue line in the direction that you should be pointing your dish in.
MrElectricity
05-12-2007, 04:13 AM
Excellent site, also may I suggest Satlex Digital a very good site for any type of dish at all give ya a great start in peaking a dish.
Injuised
10-12-2007, 10:49 PM
what a great idea, very good site , thanks for that
nickrout
11-12-2007, 10:39 AM
very cool!
MrElectricity
12-12-2007, 04:56 AM
Found something fun on the DishPointer site, go in and load your house address then zoom right out, you will see the blue line indicating the direction to the bird, now click on different birds and see the line go from sat to sat the Clarke belt is so easily indicated in this way. Great fun, love it.
bartender
12-12-2007, 10:24 AM
Found something fun on the DishPointer site, go in and load your house address then zoom right out, you will see the blue line indicating the direction to the bird, now click on different birds and see the line go from sat to sat the Clarke belt is so easily indicated in this way. Great fun, love it.

They also had a bug in the code when he first released it so when you pointed to NSS5 being a Westing not Easting bird, it would go the "long" way around to get to the sat, seems like he fixed the bug after I contacted him about it. But it was funny to see a "sine" style wave going from NZ via Antarctica -> ME -> Northern Europe -> NA to the correct point... too funny. But it's fixed now. A excellent use of Google Maps IMHO.
MrElectricity
13-12-2007, 12:41 AM
They also had a bug in the code when he first released it so when you pointed to NSS5 being a Westing not Easting bird, it would go the "long" way around to get to the sat, seems like he fixed the bug after I contacted him about it. But it was funny to see a "sine" style wave going from NZ via Antarctica -> ME -> Northern Europe -> NA to the correct point... too funny. But it's fixed now. A excellent use of Google Maps IMHO.

Yes I read your post about the line going South that would have been an, "OH Bugger" moment.:o