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Old 11-30-2005, 09:28 AM
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Re: True south montreal

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Originally Posted by nalbouz
Thanks Alfi,
would you please tel me how you calculated it, why AMC5 the closest one ?,
Like Druze said there is no calculation how to find your true south sat.
There is the east and west part of longitude, 0 -180 degrees East and 0 - 180 degrees west. This gives you the full circle 360 degrees. North America is in the 0 -180 degrees west longitude. Montreal is at 73.4 degrees west longitude location. Now going from 0 degrees West (0 degrees is somewhere in Great Britain) you stop at 73.4 and that’s where Montreal is. Looking at the list of FTA satellitesm available, http://www.sadoun.com/Sat/Satellites/Satellite-List.htm you will find that AMC5 at 79 west is the closest one to your location (73.4).

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