Sirius Satellite Radio
Welcome to VO1ONE's page of Sirius coverage maps. The repeater maps are calculated by using elevation data from the Space Shuttle's Remote Sensing mission of 2000, and using building height data gathered from skyscrapers.com and the FCC's TOWAIR database. Plots assume the receiver's antenna is about 2 meters above the ground and do not take trees into consideration, so take these all with a grain of salt. In the visual coverage plots, knife edge diffraction and fresnel zones are not taken into consideration, these are only dealt with in radio coverage plots (of which I did make a couple).
Here's what I've made so far:
Akron, OH with road map overlay
Akron, OH with road map overlayed with topo contours
Cleveland and Akron, OH together showing overlapping coverage
Denver, CO Visual Coverage
Denver, CO Radio Coverage
Phoenix, AZ Visual Coverage
Satellite Footprint Maps:
Sirius footprint taken from ITU filings
Sirius direction antenna footprint taken from CRTC filings
Sirius standard antenna footprint taken from CRTC filings
XM 115 east antenna footprint
XM 115 west antenna footprint
XM 85 east antenna footprint
XM 85 west antenna footprint
Position of Sirius' satellites when two are crossing the equator
Canada Satellite Radio stuff:
XM Canada Flyer
Ham radio operators build, launch and operate their very own satellites in space. Most are in a Low Earth Orbit, although some High Earth Orbit sats are on the way such as P3E.
Hear what an amateur satellite sounds like:
EB4DEH David in QSO with GI0KOV Patrick in N. Ireland, 2E0BAT Angus putting out his call, and myself VO1ONE in Newfoundland working GI0KOV. Patrick gets cut off by the AO-27 telemetry (1200 baud packet sounds) at the end of the pass.
A picture of my Arrow handheld satellite antenna outfitted with an S band downconverter. I take a gel cell in a backpack to power the downconverter and the 2m HT. For just 2m and 70cm, the backpack doesn't accompany me.
A trip to GN36 coming up April 4, 2006 to work /p on the satellites
It has only been recently that a newsgroup dedicated to satellite radio has been formed. The group is now pretty active with many discussions on both Sirius and XM. Most usenet servers should have the group already, but if they don't, please ask them to add it. If they won't, you may view the group with Google Groups instead.
alt.radio.satellite
alt.radio.satellite on Google Groups Beta
alt.radio.satellite on the old Google Groups
Sirius Backstage
XM Fan
VO1ONE's ham radio homepage
Sarah Martin's memorial webpage
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