Paint Me Embarrassed! Well, I'll be a Son of a Gun! I'd been in the uplink business for 27 years and had always thought that all the domestic FSS satellites had linear antennas for their Ku transponders, and that only the DBS satellites operated circular. Ya learn something every day! Even...

Anik F3 - Circularly Polarized? Hold up. I don't think Anik F3 has any circularly polarized C-band or Ku-band antennas onboard. You can check out the info for the satellite at www . telesat.com/satellite-fleet/anik/anik-f3. Ooops. I just saw that they don't list the polaization info on...

Hi All, I was doing a Google search for the phone number for the Napa teleport so that I could contact an old friend, and I came across this old thread. If this thread is still active, I'll give some answers. The Napa satellite earth station teleport is owned by Intelsat. It was originally...

Hi, I work at a satellite uplink teleport in the San Francisco area. I thought the forum might want some further info regarding the Galaxy 15 issue. We have two services on Anik F3 C-band. One is for rural telephony to Alaska, and the other is extending a computer LAN from the Japanese...