[MAMS] 5.7 GHz rainscatter question

[Zack Widup]

Interesting. Does this dish come horizontally polarized?

If I had 100 watts on 5760 I'd probably be trying EME!
:-)

73, Zack W9SZ


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Dexter McIntyre W4DEX
<dexter.mc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Zack Widup wrote:
> > I'd say about 2 watts or more of power and a 2 ft or larger dish will get
> > you some RS QSO's.
> Yes it will.  I've made no 5.8 ghz rain scatter contacts so far but
> that's only due to the lack of stations to work.  But I have some
> experience by receiving a temporary beacon I can put on.  With the
> beacon running about 5 watts to a small homebrew horn with maybe 15 dbi
> gain I have received rain scatter reflections from storms several
> hundred miles away.  On receive I have used a larger horn, a 3 foot dish
> and a 2 foot wi-fi grid.   A good source for antennas if you can't find
> something surplus to use is 5.8 wi-fi antennas.  A grid works very well
> for portable tripod setups due to being lighter weight and much reduced
> wind load if you happen to be out on a windy day.
>
> I often buy from Baltic Networks and Streakwave.  Below is a link to a
> 26 dbi grid I recently received.  But don't burn out the feed, it's only
> rated for 100 watts :)
>
> http://www.balticnetworks.com/laird-26dbi-5-8ghz-parabolic-grid-nfi.html
>
> Dex
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