[MAMS] 5.7 GHz antennas

[Zack Widup]

Danny, if you want to try to work on 5760 some time, let me know.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Danny Pease <dpease at adams.net> wrote:

> I have a  20 inch dish with 5.7 feed horn for portable operation and a
> couple of extras, if nothing bigger falls into my lap, I will use one of
> those. One of them will likely get used for 10 GHz once I get hardware for
> that band.
>
> Danny Pease
>
>
>
> --------------------
> From: "Dave Sublette" <k4to at arrl.net>
> Sent: Nov 11, 2013 1:46:47 PM
> To: Mid-America Microwave Society <mams at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [MAMS] 5.7 GHz antennas
>
>
> I have a couple of spare dish network truncated parabolas with offset
> feeds sitting around if you are interested.   You will have to build
> your own feed.
>
> Dave, K4TO
>
> On 11/11/2013 1:04 PM, Danny Pease wrote:
> > I suppose a triband feed would simplify a lot of things as once I put
> > something up from home I would likely want to use more than one band and
> it
> > would be really tough to put up more than one dish here.
> >
> > Danny NG9R
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mams-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mams-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On
> > Behalf Of Zack Widup
> > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:13 AM
> > To: Mid-America Microwave Society
> > Subject: Re: [MAMS] 5.7 GHz antennas
> >
> > Hi Danny,
> >
> > Not sure about preferred, but a dish 24 inches in diameter or bigger
> with a
> > decent feed should do well. I used an 18 inch dish with a WA3RMX tri-band
> > feed for some years and then went to a 24 inch dish. The WA3RMX feed
> works
> > well but isn't optimized for 5760. If you're going single band, a W2IMU
> or
> > Clavin feed should work very well.
> >
> > 73, Zack W9SZ
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Danny Pease <dpease at adams.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I am curious, what is the most preferred antenna for a fixed station
> >> on 5.7 GHz?
> >>
> >> Danny NG9R
> >>
> >>
> >>
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