• • How to calculate your link budget.

Fill in the empty boxes and alter any of the other parameters to match your system requirements.
The default values are not representative of any particular satellite.

By clicking in a parameter box the original data will be cleared so that you can easily enter new values.

When you are ready, click on 'Calculate Link Budget'.

An estimate of modem lock is shown based on the overall link margin. This is a real world indication, such that it will lock with no margin at all. However, no satellite link should have no margin, just in case it rains.

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