I once was a assistant to a Satellite Dish repairman.
PS Depending on your latitude and longitude the aiming point over the
horizen is differant.
Billy M. Williams
"It was once thought that a million monkeys at a million
keyboards would eventually produce the complete works
of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know
this to be false."
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kingsbury <kingsbry@gte.net>
To: KeelyNet Discussion List <KeelyNet@DallasTexas.net>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 1998 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Gravity....Push vs. Pull / Geostationary
>
> At 11:30 PM 7-29-98 -0500, Garrett wrote:
> >
> > there is a file listed under some of the old KeelyNet files
> > that described an experiment with two deep holes and hung masses
> > and that if gravity was a pull they should have been pulled to a
> > common center, but the were not, I think that the common center
> > was quite a ways beyond earth in space somewhere, this was an
> > argument against the pull theory.
>
>
> Garrett,
>
> Alternately, the above 'common center quite a ways beyond earth'
> may be an argument that we live in an illusion, like a Star Trek
> Holo-deck, where we sometimes get a glimpse of clues we weren't
> intended to spot. That is, your recollection (above) of the
> 'KeelyNet files', combined with a separate puzzlement of my own,
> leads me to the following.....
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this has boggled me
> for decades. Why do the common satellite TV antennas that point
> towards geostationary satellites always seem to be inclined at
> about 25 degrees up from the horizon -- at least here in
> Southern California (your latitude may vary) ?
>
> There shouldn't be any geosynchronous satellites out in that
> direction -- they should be about 50 degrees from the horizon,
> or ABOVE the half way point to true vertical. This is easy to
> prove if you can do, or imagine, ordinary technical drafting.
>
> The earth's radius is 4,000 miles, and the geostationary altitude
> is an additional 22,307 miles (use a radius of 26,000 miles),
> always directly above the equator, regardless of the mass of the
> orbiting mass (assuming we use Newtonian physics applying to a
> geosynchronous earth orbit).
>
> Yet all these satellite antennas pointing towards empty space have
> been pushing mass media at us for decades. Who's 'out there'
> and what are they flying their antennas on, if they aren't in a
> true geostationary orbit ??
>
>
> Do the technicians who install them just aim the antenna
> 'empirically' at the point of 'maximum signal strength',
> regardless of the actual angle (which they never check) ?
>
>
> To put this to rest, can someone point me to instructions for
> aiming these antennas, or directions for calculating the exact
> angle at which to point a synchronous satellite antenna
> (depending upon latitude) ? I'm wondering if such instructions
> exist..... or if I've inadvertantly spotted another 'clue'.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
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