The Tellicast software is a very simple Windows Program that connects to the antenna and allows you to download the latest Satellite data. You will receive this program on a CD-rom from EUMETSat when you purchase the licence and EKU key.

These next images show you the install process.

Here you need your username and password. You will be given this from EUMETSat on registration

Next select if you want the downloaded files all in one directory or separated by channel

Select next to install all features

Select install

You will now see new icons appear on the desktop for the various broadcasts.

You will also notice a new icon in the system tray. This icon shows you the status of the tellicast client and whether it is connected and receiving files.

If you right click on the icon and select the HTML Shell you can launch a web browser and see the status of the program.

If your dish is aligned and tuned correctly you should now start to see the signal a signal on the overview screen.

If you now select the active Channels option on the menu you should also see you client connecting to the announcement Channel and various Data channels. This will look something like this.

At this stage it is worth checking the log files. Select the log File menu option. This will show any errors and let you know of any partially or failed data files.

By default the TelliCAst program will save it's data to

C:\EUMETCast\received\

This directory is created during the install process. In these two directories there will be two directories bas and arf-1. All the files from the African broadcast are put into afr-1 directory. The bas (basic) directory will remain empty.

We will cover later how to manage these files as you can receive up to 5 thousand files a day depending on what options you select. This will very quickly fill your disk so you need to put systems in place to manage the sheer amount of data coming in.