Re: [amsat-bb] BBQ Dish Sanity - more info

["Rick Fletcher, KG6IAL" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Perforated dishes are overrated as alternatives.  If you keep
> the perforations as small as wire mesh then above
> a few miles per hour of wind, cavitation and turbulence
> near the holes makes it appear as solid to the wind!
>

Stand behind a wire mesh dish in 40 MPH winds and feel the amount of wind
coming through the dish and then tell me it behaves as essentially a solid
dish.

Rick
KG6IAL


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