Tv Sattelite For Antenna Question..

[jonny290]

One of the nice things about 2.4 is that amateur is a primary user and I can run more ERP than an ISM user.

Make sure that if you're operating under amateur frequency allocations and ERP rules that you are only passing amateur traffic. Don't run your bittorrents or porn over it.

Granted, that sort of careful differentiation happens about as much as people remembering not to use GMRS channels on FRS radios, but I thought I"d mention it for legality, at any rate.

 

[VernM]

1. Your dish (whatever size) represents a lens, just like in optics. It serves only to gather and focus radio waves.
2. Moon bounce is doable at 10 meters and above but very inneficient since the moon scatters the signals, being a convex reflector. What you hear back on earth is a very small part of what you send, or someone else sends. You can tell if it is your signal you are hearing, if using EME, by measuring the delay. Three seconds up and back.
3. As a listner, about all the satellite dish would be good for is focusing on some signals somewhere within the range of its feed point receiver/amplifer, which wouild have to be designed for a specific frequency range and optimized for a specific modulation type. Then there is polarity. And weak signal technology.

All this is available to you on line or in books. Search for key words from the above. Look into Free To Air reception (FTE) as a place to start listening.

Did I say the mount for the antenna will have to be well engineered too? The mast on which it mounts will have to be 100 percent vertical to make it easier to capture signals from various satellites in polar orbit without the hunt up and down as well as and hunt east to west problem. And it will have to have an unobstructed view of the sky from east to west and, depending on your location in the US, around 40-50 degrees above the horizon.

You got the parts, but there is a long way to go after that, you see.

Good luck!

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[kb2vxa]

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BONG!

N_Jay, yer laces are untied and you forgot to start brain before engaging mouth. Take that ARRL Handbook out of your pants and smack him with it! Ali you're not, you float like a fart and stink like a pee!

Don, you're ahead on points, you've got him on the ropes. He's all confused but we need a knockout here if you want to take the championship title. "This space for rent." is your clue, his head's like microwave cavity magnetron so a good whack should set his electrons spinning. Go get him boy, George Forman sells waffle irons, when you retire you can sell soldering irons.

BONG!

Now where is Howard Goatsmell when we need him?

 

[N_Jay]

In THIS cawnah, N_Jay the popinjay, heavyweight champeen of useless information. In THIS cawnah, Don "The Mon" Martin, uh BURKE, next contendah fer da MAD toitle ah da woild. Gentlemen, shake hands and come out fightin'.

BONG!

N_Jay, yer laces are untied and you forgot to start brain before engaging mouth. Take that ARRL Handbook out of your pants and smack him with it! Ali you're not, you float like a fart and stink like a pee!

Don, you're ahead on points, you've got him on the ropes. He's all confused but we need a knockout here if you want to take the championship title. "This space for rent." is your clue, his head's like microwave cavity magnetron so a good whack should set his electrons spinning. Go get him boy, George Forman sells waffle irons, when you retire you can sell soldering irons.

BONG!

Now where is Howard Goatsmell when we need him?

What the "F" are you spouting about?

 

[N_Jay]

Let me fix that;


" . . In THIS cawnah, N_Jay the popinjay, heavyweight champeen of useless information. In THIS cawnah, Don "The Mon" Martin, uh BURKE, next contendah fer da MAD toitle ah da woild. Gentlemen, shake hands and come out fightin'.

BONG!

N_Jay, yer laces are untied and you forgot to start brain before engaging mouth. Take that ARRL Handbook out of your pants and smack him with it! Ali you're not, you float like a fart and stink like a pee!

Don, you're ahead on points, you've got him on the ropes. He's all confused but we need a knockout here if you want to take the championship title. "This space for rent." is your clue, his head's like microwave cavity magnetron so a good whack should set his electrons spinning. Go get him boy, George Forman sells waffle irons, when you retire you can sell soldering irons.

BONG!

Now where is Howard Goatsmell when we need him? . . . "

Now, is that better?

What the "F" are you talking about?

 

[zz0468]

It's a shame a perfectly good thread on uses for an old satellite dish is turning into a pissing match.

Anyway, there is a tremendous amount of activity across the country on 10 GHz, and the KU dishes work fine. In fact, I have one that I use that's completely unmodified.

The Dish Network and DirectTV dishes are useful with some mods to the feed assembly - about an hour's worth of work.

The old C band dishes are useful for SETI work, and for EME (7' ands larger) for the bands above 1296. I could go on....