RE: [amsat-bb] Re: DirectTV Dish and 1.2 Patch

[Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

VE3NPC had a really good homebrew 1.2 helix article not too long ago in the AMSAT Symposium proceedings...

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Angelo Glorioso <n5uxt@hotmail.com>
Sent: Feb 17, 2005 10:56 PM
To: K5OE@aol.com
Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: DirectTV Dish and 1.2 Patch

   Hi Jerry,

   I do have a BBQ Dish by K5GNA for 2.4 right now on a Yaesu G-5500
   rotor system. . It works farly good. I was hoping for a light weight
   dish for the other side of the boom for 1.2. I do have a IC-910 with a
   1.2 module coming Monday.

   Most of the replies I have received stated that the DirectTV dish
   would work fine with 2.4, but not very well on 1.2.  Oh well, I guess
   I will have to look at buying another antenna.

   I would like to thank all who replied. This is a great forum.

   73 de Angelo
   ---------------------------------------------------------
   If you don't ask, you will never know!!
   >From: K5OE@aol.com
   >To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
   >Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: DirectTV Dish and 1.2 Patch
   >Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:23:47 -0500
   >
   >Angelo,
   >The small dish will not be efficient at 1.2 GHz, but it will work
   just fine with a patch feed for AO-51 and just a few Watts--if you
   have a rotor to put it on, and preferably with automatic tracking
   capability.  If you are planning to point it manually for AO-51,
   however, I suggest you use something with a lot less gain and
   something easier to handle, like a 1/4 wl vertical if you have 10
   Watts or a 3-el beam if you have only a Watt or two of power.
   >
   >BTW, you did not say if you were also looking for 2.4 GHz on the same
   dish, but that is easy to accomplish with a dual patch or dual
   helices.  I used an 18" DirectTV dish with 10 W on AO-40 and made
   contacts at apogee (> 50,000 km).
   >73,
   >Jerry, VK8OE
   >
   >---------------------------------------------------------
   >H Folks,
   >
   >   I am looking for some advise when it come to a 1.2G antenna. I
   have a
   >   extra DirectTV dish
   >
   >   around the house and was wondering how good this type of dish
   would
   >   work for an uplink for AO-51 with a 1.2 G Patch???
   >
   >    I am a newbie when it come to dish construction and patch
   >   construction and what would work good with a 1.2 G Patch. Is this
   >dish
   >   to smaill???
   >
   >   73 de Angelo
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