WHAT PROBLEMS OCCUR IN Ku BAND RECEPTION WITH A PERFECT ALIGNED SYSTEM ?
The major problem with Ku-band reception with a perfect aligned system is rain fade and what I call “snow fade”. Snow fade” is what I call the situation when snow accumulates on a dish and changes the focal point of the dish. The focal point affects Ku-band much more than C-band (since you have some tolerance in reception of C-band signals). Another problem is the wind — you can be right on a Ku-band satellite and a gust of wind can come and move your dish off of the satellite. Horizon-to-horizon mounts are better fighters of wind gusts than polar mount systems are. Another problem is spot-beaming, that is, concentrating a signal in a certain geographic region. A prime example of this phenomena is the NBC Pacific Time Zone feed on Satcom K2. While the western U.S. can get that NBC feed perfectly, if you are in the Eastern United States (east of a line roughly north and south going through Dallas, Texas), you won’t get the NBC Pacific Time Zone feed. If you have any suggestions, commen
