Specification

To receive the African broadcast, you will require a fairly large antenna with a C band low-noise block downconverter (LNB). The size of the antenna will determine the area of service that can be received.

The minimum size antenna for the African broadcast is 1.8 meters. The following plot gives an indication of what can be received with this size antenna.

For alignment of the dish we used the dishpointer website. https://www.dishpointer.com/

On this website you to enter your location and your desired satellite and it will tell you the elevation and azimuth that the dish needs to be aligned to.

A document from EUMETSAT on antenna installation might also be of use (https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/DataDelivery/EUMETCast/ReceptionStationSetup/index.html).

For help with aligning the antenna EUMETCast have made a very informative video.

Dielectric plate

You will also need to insert the dielectric plate into your LNB for the correct polarization signal to be received by the antenna. This will come as part of your dish setup and is a small square piece that needs to be inserted into the LNB.

To do this remove the round cover on the LNB and you will see some slots inside to accommodate the plate.

Once all these steps have been completed you should now be ready to move onto installing the DVB S2 receiver card into the computer