[AReU] Fw: Fw: 18 "Dish Network" Dish

Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:09:30 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan L. Sanders, Jr. <[email protected]>
To: w4tas <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: 18 "Dish Network" Dish

Tony,

It sounds great to me and I think the members would greatly enjoy it too.
In my humble opinion, I think we need to do more things like this.  I know
everybody is exceedingly busy and weekends are at a premium, but I'd
certainly be willing to sneak a weekend in every now and then for an
opportunity to participate in something like this.  Let me know when, where
and how I can help.

Al

w4tas wrote:

Definitely don't get rid of it. I have been wondering how one of those would
do on AO40.I am building up a test oscillator for 2.4 GHz. We could install
a feed antenna on it and check the gain. Maybe we ought to get together one
Saturday at Davis Park and do some dish antenna testing. We could put the
oscillator about 100 yds away from the test site and run some pretty good
tests on my 30 turn helix, R Myers BBQ grill, Ed's BBQ grill, Ed's small
reflector, my Primestar dish, your Dish Network dish and others that we
could skull up. We can make the polarization of the source linear RHCP or
LHCP. The satellite is RHCP and I would have to wind a RHCP helix but that
is not a problem at all. I already have a LHCP helix I am using now for my
downlink.The polarity changes from RHCP to LHCP when the signal reflects off
of the dish. If you were testing the 30 turn helix you would need RHCP at
the trans
mitter whereas if you were testing a feed antenna without the dish you would
need a LHCP transmitting antenna. I wonder what the members would think
about this?Does anyone have suggestions?BTW the AREU meeting has been
changed to next Tuesday because of problems getting the meeting room opened
up. 73Tony-----Original Message-----From: Alan L. Sanders, Jr.
<[email protected]>To: [email protected] <[email protected]>Date: Monday,
December 31, 2001 4:38 PMSubject: 18 "Dish Network" Dish
Tony,I just remembered that I have a junk 18" Dish Network antenna in the
garage.  Is this any good for AO-40?Al