Generally there aren't that many people who have their own transmitting gear and the pirates do not want to attract attention to themselves so they usually do their homework and behave themselves. Mine are, well even harder to find and notice. My signals are very different from the other pirates that are usually companies with VSAT's who turn on their earth station and send a burst of data, usually emails etc and then they shut down. I have my own transmitting gear and I have played around with satellite piracy. They're often in another country where there are no laws offering protection or if there are, they are very difficult to exercise. Though some of the data they send over the satellite it isn't too hard to work out who and where they are.Įven if the satellite owners wanted to prosecute them, they can't. It's not my satellite and not my job to find them. What can I say, there's some bad people in the world.Īs for catching them well it really isn't my problem. C band doesn't have the rain fade problem anything like Ku band.Ĭlick to expand.
Satellite frequency bands uplink and downlink tv#
There are still C band cable TV installations around. Now they use multiple Ku transponders with backup. Too much power by a single user can put the transponder into saturation region and pinch out the other users.Ī long time ago a renegade tech used an earth station in northern Florida to put HBO's C band transponder into saturation taking HBO off the air to all the cable TV companies across the U.S. I joking asked if they where turning the rain into steam.įor shared single carrier per subscriber dedicated transponders like used at branch banks, they are very strict about uplink power control. When I called them to find out what happen the guy said they have the PA pushed to 3 kW and can't burn through the rain storm. Carolina that had an 10 meter dish when their signal went out. I was working with an uplink vendor in N. You need the reserve power at Ku band because of the heavy attenuation due to rain. Normal clear sky power is usually only about 12-20 watts from PA.