RE: [amsat-bb] "Trash Can" or steel drum dish antennas

[Jean-Louis.RAULT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Such a huge hog-horn coupled to a maser amplifier was used in France during
the sixties to perform the first USA/Europe TV direct-live satellite
transmissions.
The antenna and its radome are still there in Britanny (west part of France)
and have been converted into a telecommunications museum.

73 de Jean-Louis F6AGR

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Alfred Green [mailto:nu8i@home.com]
> Date: mardi 4 décembre 2001 16:28
> À: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
> Objet: Re: [amsat-bb] "Trash Can" or steel drum dish antennas
> 
> 
> Scott Townley wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > As an aside, anyone ever heard of a "cornucopia" antenna?  
> Some of the
> > old long-haul analog microwave sites run by the old AT&T 
> still have some
> > up.  They are generally a cone pointing up with an "elbow" 
> opening that
> > opens to the horizon.  Those have even better sidelobe/backlobe
> > performance.  I have some pictures in old textbooks; they 
> appear to be
> > one of the original radio astronomy antennas.  And now 
> they're all dark;
> > someone needs to pull one down and fire it up!!
> 
> I dont recall the term "cornucopia", but from the name and description
> it sounds like what we used to refer to as a hog-horn. If I ever knew
> the derivation of that term it is long lost in the shower of discarded
> brain cells.
> 
> As I recall, it was essentially a parabolic section with a horn feed.
> The sides of the horn carried on to provide side walls for 
> the parabola,
> reducing the sidelobes. It had a reputation for being a 
> 'quiet' antenna,
> hence the radio astronomy connection.
> 
> PA0AVS has built one for use on 432 & 1296 EME; there's a 
> picture in the
> antenna gallery on Rein's site, http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/
> 
> An S-band version would be fairly compact, and give a good G/T ratio.
> 
> Definately food for thought.
> 
> 73  Alf  NU8I
> Scottsdale AZ DM43an
> 
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