[Bruce in Alaska]

In article .com,
"Edoardo" wrote:

You wrote:
In article . com,
"Edoardo" wrote:

Hi,

I am searching for some good source of information about installing a
satellite internet connection on sailing boats.
What's the best solution?
Is there a website/forum/group that is specifically talking about this?

Thanks a lot for your help
Eddy


All it takes is MONEY, and lots of it, for either expensive hardware, or
expensive SAT Time, or BOTH......

This was the same kind of answer one would get 10 years ago asking for
a flat panel 19" display or for a car navigation system.
things that you can buy now for less than 500euro (maybe because
somebody started talking about?)
I am sorry for being polemic but I can't get an answer other than the
"wow, what you want to do it's really expensive!" one.
The reason I am asking this is because I really like sailing and at the
same time I would like to help a friend of mine that asked this - maybe
just as curiosity - or maybe just to know how it works.
Internet satellite systems are getting widely used for cars, caravans
and TV vans for example; I guess the most complicated thing to make
them work on a boat would be for the boat movements (tilting, etc) but
I can't find any good source of information about.
thanks anyway..


There are piles of SAT systems for cars, caravans, and TV Vans, but the
first two are not passing IP Traffic in the bidirectional mode at any
speed of consequence. SAT Tv Vans have all the hardware to pass just
about any type of traffic, BUT they don't do it while moving, only at
fixed locations, and all that gear is expensive, HEAVY, and Power-hungry.
You can't find the information you require, because you are looking at
trying to do it on the cheap, and Gyro-Stabilized Ka or Ku Band Antennas
are anything but cheap. They also require Directional Heading Inputs
from an external Gyro System, or Enertial Nav system, which is another
expense, which is why these are usually only fitted on Military, or
Large Ships that already have a platform, and required auxillary Input
Systems, fitted.
DBS TvSAT Receive/Only Systems are in the 3-5Kbuck range when fitted with
Gyro-Stabilized Antennas, and getting an Uplink going means that your
antenna tracking accuracy has to be increased by at least an order of
magnitude. Otherwise you would be interfering with numerous other users,
on multiple SAT's because your antenna can't track a point in the sky
at less than 300 ArcSeconds.

Bruce in alaska an old SAT/Comm's guy from way back......
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