1.3M Primesat Satellite Dish for Eumetcast Reception
EUMETCast is a multi-service dissemination system based on standard Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) technology. It uses commercial telecommunication geostationary satellites to multi-cast files (data and products) to a wide user community. EUMETCast also delivers a range of third-party products.
We currently use the following hardware and software to receive data from EUMETCast:
- 1.3M Primesat Dish, Twin LNB
- Ayecka SR1 Professional Satellite Receiver – more info
- Custom Built PC to run the Eumetcast Tellicast Software (Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Samsung NVME M.2 Drive)
- Dell PowerEdge Server for various data processing tasks (8 x 2.5GHz, 12GB RAM, 8 x 500GB SSD)