Patent ID: 7012566

Claim:
A device for orienting a satellite antenna carried in a movable carrier, which receives an electromagnetic signal from at least one satellite and, in response thereto, provides a satellite signal comprised of a program component that is retrieved by a playing device to play a program contained therein and a coordinate component, the device comprising: a satellite tracking system comprising: a position processor that receives the satellite signal and retrieves at least one satellite coordinate contained in the coordinate component of the satellite signal, a channel setting/selection unit adapted to be used by a user to set/select at least one program channel having an associated target coordinate, a register that stores the target coordinate, a comparator that receives the satellite coordinate from the position processor and the target coordinate from the register and compares the satellite coordinate with the target coordinate to generate an error, and a microprocessor that receives the error and in response thereto issue a correction control signal; and an antenna adjusting device adapted to mechanically and operatively couple to the antenna, comprising an adjusting mechanism that receives the correction control signal and operates in accordance with the correction control signal to orient the antenna.