Re: [amsat-bb] AIDC 3731AA & 3 foot Dish for AO-40 question.

[Bob Bruninga <bruninga@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:

> I think I've decided on a 3 foot solid dish with circular feed connected to
> a Transystems AIDC 3731AA downconverter for AO-40 receive.
> Is anyone out there using a setup like this and are you happy with it?

I use a 3+ foot portable dish and stock ADIC converter with its built in
linear dipole (not circular) and with no mods other than snipping out the
coax stub filter, and I think I hear just about everything... using a
substandard scanner at 123 MHz...

Photos at  http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ao40ant.html..

The added 3dB of a 3 footer over a 2 footer covers over a lot of sins..
make it circular and pick up anotehr 3dB and wow..

de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob

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