Aim your antenna
in seconds.
Point your phone at the sky. Move until the dot locks. Mount your external antenna right where you ended up.
Ready to aim?
We'll request location, motion sensors, and camera access. Best used outdoors on a phone.
Requires HTTPS, modern iOS or Android, and a clear view of the southern sky.
Open this on your phone.
The aimer needs camera, GPS, and motion sensors. Visit canaro.ca/antenna-aimer on your iPhone or Android to use it.
Tip: scan the QR code or share the URL via Messages / WhatsApp / email.
Calibrate the compass
Move your phone in a figure-8 a few times to calibrate the magnetometer. Stay away from metal walls and large electronics.
Tips for a clean lock.
Get outside
Trees, walls, and metal roofs all block satellite line-of-sight. Test where the antenna will live.
Calibrate often
Phone compasses drift near anything metallic or magnetic. Recalibrate with a figure-8 motion if the heading feels off.
Weather is fine
Echostar T1 punches through cloud and rain at Canadian latitudes. A thick cap of snow or ice on the antenna itself is the only real interrupter, so brush it off after a storm.
Aim once, mount firmly
The Canaro external antenna is a flat, self-adhesive bar. Stick it to a surface that already faces the way the phone locked, or print a mount shaped for your wall, and check the lock before the adhesive sets.
Echostar T1 (NORAD 35496) is in a slightly inclined geostationary orbit; look-angles change slowly through the day. This tool propagates fresh TLEs from CelesTrak and updates 1×/sec on your device. Nothing leaves your phone.