This chart may be used to compare the various features of the software products we offer. Some minor features are not listed. Note that Satmaster Pro is included with the Satmaster+ package and is no longer available separately.
| Satmaster Product Comparison Chart | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature Description | QA | Pro | Plus |
| Approximate download size, MB | 1 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| Context sensitive 'Help' | yes | yes | yes |
| Calculate look angles and pol.offset from lat/long. | yes | yes | yes |
| Tabulate look angles for multiple sites | yes | yes | yes |
| Tabulate polarization offset for multiple sites | yes | yes | yes |
| Calculate look angles from US Zip codes | yes | no | no |
| Calculates magnetically corrected compass bearings | yes | yes | yes |
| Fully user editable town/city data for 200+ countries | yes | yes | yes |
| Fully user editable satellite file (also downloadable) | yes | yes | yes |
| Show 'visible' satellites table for any site | yes | yes | yes |
| Generates look angle tables from any town/city files | yes | yes | yes |
| Calculate polar mount angles | yes | yes | yes |
| Calculate multi-feed positioning | yes | yes | yes |
| Print and save data to files | yes | yes | yes |
| Copy and paste reports to MS Excel for customisation | yes | yes | yes |
| Save reports and tables as HTML | yes | yes | yes |
| Calculates wind loading and required ballast | no | yes | yes |
| Produce, two site, 'visible' satellites table | no | yes | yes |
| Sun outage prediction tables | no | yes | yes |
| Solar outage batch processing (multiple sites) | no | yes | yes |
| Solar outage batch processing (multiple satellites) | no | yes | yes |
| Solar outage batch processing (all known satellites) | no | yes | yes |
| Solar transit times (finds due south) | no | yes | yes |
| Footprint map viewer | no | yes | yes |
| Calculate atmospheric absorption | no | yes | yes |
| Rain attenuation using ITU-R P.618-8 model | no | yes | yes |
| Automatic vapour density and surface temperature | no | yes | yes |
| Rain attenuation using Crane models | no | yes | yes |
| Plot various graphs and tables | no | yes | yes |
| Simple radio button selection of rain models | no | yes | yes |
| Supports rain-up AND rain down link scenarios | no | yes | yes |
| Supports fixed HPA capabilities in link budgets | no | yes | yes |
| Supports ALC modelling | no | yes | yes |
| FM Digital simplified TV downlink budgets | no | yes | no |
| Digital simplified TV downlink budgets | no | yes | yes |
| FM "bent pipe" link budgets (GEO) | no | yes | no |
| Digital "bent pipe" link budgets (GEO) | no | yes | yes |
| Regenerative digital link budgets (GEO) | no | yes | yes |
| Snapshot "Bent pipe" digital link budgets (NON-GEO) | no | yes | yes |
| Snapshot Regenerative digital link budgets (NON-GEO) | no | yes | yes |
| Digital Bandwidth Calculator | no | yes | yes |
| Non-reflector gains and effective apertures accepted | no | no | yes |
| Batch processing of GEO link budgets | no | no | yes |
| Automatic antenna noise calculation option | no | no | yes |
| Option to calculate ASI for up to 4 adjacent satellites | no | no | yes |
| Tabulation of R0.01 values for a selected country | no | no | yes |
| Decodes TLE files for real time satellite positions (SGP4/SDP4 model) | no | no | yes |
| Highlighting of key link budget results | no | no | yes |
| Polarization offset shown in 'Satellites above Horizon' listings. | no | no | yes |
| Batch calculation of magnetic variation | no | no | yes |
| Ionospheric scintillation estimator | no | no | yes |
| Power ratio addition calculator | no | no | yes |
| G/T calculator | no | no | yes |