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[August 07, 2008]

Satfinder - Satellite Database & Calculation Software

DUBLIN, Ireland --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c05bc8/satfinder_satell) has announced the addition of the "Satfinder - Satellite Database & Calculation Software" directory to their offering.
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THE DATABASE SECTION

Has information on over 500 satellites (orbital location, frequencies, EIRP, G/T, SFD, bandwidth, programming etc.) and 9,000 companies (address, tel, fax, web, products, services and contact names etc.) and 19,000 executives in the commercial satellite industry. Containing a very fast search ability plus over 800 hundred EIRP, G/T & SFD maps in color not published anywhere else.

THE CALCULATION SECTION

Has full up-down digital link budget calculators with input provision for uplink power control (UPC), ALC, various interferences and multiple carriers. Finds HPA size, uplink power requirements, bandwidth and power usage per carrier. Calculates atmospheric losses and rain fade margins for any desired availability on uplink and downlink. Handles BPSK, QPSK, M-PSK or M-QAM with any FEC code rate. Determines power or bandwidth limited modes and calculates the power equivalent bandwidth, if appropriate. Provision for RS codes or 'Turbo' modems. Option for rain up AND rain down scenarios where uplink and downlink are from/to the same city.

Used by Broadcasters, SNG operators, VSAT designers, dish installation companies and dealers serving the satellite TV industry. Calculation capacity including dish aiming, link budget analysis and solar outage prediction provide the backbone of the package. The link budget facilities employ rain attenuation and atmospheric absorption prediction modeling even for low elevations. These and other useful features, such as an integral magnetic variation calculation and over 30,000 stored town/city coordinates, combine to enable a system to be either designed for any global location. Designed to be very simple to use, it works just like any other Windows application with pull-down menus, toolbar for shortcuts, dialog boxes, text and graphics windows, a status bar and a comprehensive help system.

You can calculate the following:

Full up-down digital link budget calculators with input provision for uplink power control (UPC), ALC, various interferences and multiple carriers. Finds HPA size, uplink power requirements, bandwidth and power usage per carrier. Calculates atmospheric losses and rain fade margins for any desired availability on uplink and downlink. Handles BPSK, QPSK, M-PSK or M-QAM with any FEC code rate. Determines power or bandwidth limited modes and calculates the power equivalent bandwidth, if appropriate. Provision for RS codes or 'Turbo' modems. Option for rain up AND rain down scenarios where uplink and downlink are from/to the same city.

Features included:
- Digital link budgets for Satellite TV, SNG, radio and data
- FM link budgets
- Sun outage prediction (single site and satellite)
- Sun outage batch file handling (multiple sites or multiple
 satellites)
- Antenna aiming
- Dual/multi feed positioning
- Dish sizing
- Polar mount alignment
- EIRP, SFD and G/T map viewer
- Automatic magnetic variation calculation
- Solar transit times
- Off-axis gains
- Rain attenuation model (ITU-R P.618-8 or Crane)
- Calculates atmospheric absorption and tropospheric scintillation
 losses
- Loads and displays decoded two line element (TLE) files (SGP4/SDP4
 model)
- Fast batch processing of up to 500 GEO link budgets
- Ionospheric scintillation estimator
- Four satellite, ASI calculator within GEO 'bent pipe' link budget
 modules
- Automatic 'Antenna Noise' calculation option
- Tabulation of R0.01 values and rain attenuation for a selected
 country
- Highlighting of key link budget results
- Non-reflector gains and effective apertures accepted
- Polarization offset shown in 'Satellites above Horizon' listings
- Generates numerous graphs and tables
- Numerous satellite based calculation tools such as G/T and off axis
 antenna gains



The software can calculate digital link budgets for GEO satellite 'bent-pipe' and regenerative transponders as well as snapshot digital link budgets for some NON GEO varieties. Minimum system requirements are Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (Intel) with at least 800*600 display resolution and any i586 (Pentium) or later. Will run on older processors.

Your order includes:

-- 4 CD's - one every 3 months (a new database is created every quarter)

-- A free current edition of the International Satellite Directory

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c05bc8/satfinder_satell

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