WCPE has added a "free to air" unscrambled DVB Ku-Band (mini-dish)
service for easier access!
You or your local public radio station or cable system can now use a small dish to receive WCPE Radio. The smaller Ku-Band dishes
are easier to install than the larger
C-Band dishes, especially in situations with limited roof or yard space.
Such a system may be purchased for around $200 from vendors such as http://www.satcruiser.com. The 30" dish may be placed among shrubbery. The receiver connects to your stereo amplifier just like a CD player.
Reception Information:
WCPE's Ku-Band signal is on the AMC-1
Satellite, 103° West, Transponder 12K, vertical polarization.
The digital tuning information is: Downlink 11942 MHz; IF 1192
MHz; FEC 3/4; Symbol Rate 20 ms/s; Audio PID 5417 decimal, or
1529 hex; ch 81.
The coverage is the Fifty States, western and
southern Canada, and northern Mexico.
View the AMC-1 coverage map.
Look angle calculator for AMC-1 satellite:
- Go to ses-americom.com
- Follow instructions to initialize the online tool.
- Select satellite "AMC-1".
- Enter zip code of downlink location, "xxxxx".
- Click the "?" box.
- See downlink city name appear beside the "?" box and coordinates appear in their boxes.
- Click "CALCULATE".
- See AZ and EL numbers appear in their boxes section.
- Go to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
seg/geomag/jsp/Declination.jsp
- Enter zip code. Click "get location".
- See calculation of latitude and longitude. Click "Compute Declination".
- See Declination.
- Add this to the Azimuth figure. This is the new Azimuth for compass reading
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