I was in Kugaaruk NU a couple of years ago to visit my daughter. I took this picture. It shows the problem when you see how low the dish is pointed. Resolute is considerably north of this so it will be worse.

http://fleming0.flemingc.on.ca/~rwalker/north.jpg

 

Great photo - surprising to see that small a dish. I'm pretty sure that standard issue Ku-band dishes in the High Arctic are 36" diameter or more, and yes one for each satellite would be needed up there.

 

Try this:

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Fiddle with it a bit and it's showing an elevation of around 7 degrees for that latitude, i.e. pretty much horizontal. Good thing there's no trees up there

BTW, if you don't care about SD, all Bell's HD programming is on one satellite - 82.

 

Are the guide data and software updates transmitted from both satellite locations, or do you at least need 91 for those?

 

That Dish looks like a standard 90cm Bell Dish to me.

Guide data is on both birds. I only know this because I have a customer that only gets 82 and he has a guide.

 

Good to know. Thanks, Pinza.

 

What? Not one comment about the animal head in the picture!

 

Just curios what the fan is for. Surely it can't be for the animal?

 

Hugh, I thought it was the last Bell Installer sent up to that area....... Looks like the one I saw recently.

 

Pointing Angle

At least at that pointing angle, your dish won’t hold much snow

 

i'm in Yellowknife and we use 60cm dishes (2) to ensure SD and HD. I travel to inuvik regularily and they use 90cm and 1.2m dishes. I'm sure you might get away with 1.2m but probably have to go larger.

 

I too am in Nunavut, Kugluktuk to be exact and just got an HDTV recently but haven't made the switch to bell hd yet. Been thinking about it the past month but since no installers way up here wouldn't know what I would all need and what I am getting myself into. A second dish, or the hd dish with 2 lnbf's, switches, etc. Was looking at Starchoice also but don't know how good there programming and hd receivers are. Just have the basic sd 4100 receiver right now and can't remember how big the dish is but it is the plastic? one with the lightning symbol and fairly big size. which holds only one lnbf.

 

Your dish is probably a 75 or 90cm one.

You would need another 75cm Dish for 82 degrees for the HD Channels, then you can use an SW21 to connect a feed from each Dish to the HD receiver.

 

Would suggest making some calls into the community to see what other are using so you can gear up ahead of time. It's not like you can go down the street to FutureShop to quickly pick up that part your missing.

btw I'll be up in July doing a polar orbiting earth station install.

 

Thanks Pinza for the info, and checked my dish it is a 90cm so I will need another 90cm one also with the switch. Now I know what I need to get next time I go south.

And to the original poster, I agree with das75. Make sure you get all that you need before you go up there as the airlines charge alot for shipping freight. I have the 90cm dish and need another 90cm for the other satellite, a sw21 switch so you would only need to run one length of cable into the house. Shouldn't be to different then the setup I need as I am in Nunavut also and coordinates are N67'49'00 W115'08'38. Just a bit lower pointed dish I suppose but not sure how much.

Now to convince the wife we need Bell HD