Re: [amsat-bb] TVRO dishes and AO-40...

[K5OE@xxxxxxx]

Al,
They are more popular than you might think.  Without naming names, I talked, just last night on AO-40, to two W stations using 10 foot dishes and one DL station using a 6 meter dish.  Two of the three were also using the dish for L-band feed.  The latter one says he was using milli-Watts.  I noted on his webpage it looks like he converted a 3 m one by extending the dish and he also had a KW available on L-band if he needed it.  Clearly, some of us are mere runts by comparison :-)
73,
Jerry, K5OE


In a message dated Tue, 28 Aug 2001  8:25:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Al Lawler <alawler@us.oracle.com> writes:

> 
>   Is anybody out there successfully using
> an 8 or 10' TVRO dish with AO-40?   
> (And/or does anybody know much about how
> the TVRO positioning systems work?  I
> see lots of 1-axis "actuators" on ebay
> (presumably for a Polar mounting scheme),
> but nothing that looks like a control
> box.   Is the dish movement done automatically
> within the TVRO satellite reciever?
> 
>   -al
>   WB1BQE (With delusions of grandeur... :^)
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