[NLRS] Dish for 10 GHz?

[KBONLY]

I got one or two dishes left here yet.  DirecTV and DISH I think.  Just not 
worth having either any more with digital cable for half the cost, not to 
mention that the satellite always seemed to go out at the hint of rain or 
snow.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Narveson" <knarveson at n0vek.net>
To: "Scott Lichtsinn ( KB0NLY )" <kb0nly at mchsi.com>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: FW: [NLRS] Dish for 10 GHz?


> I have an old Dish Network dish in garage. Maybe turn into something in
> Ghz. Point at each other and talk. Wait we have nothing to transmit with. 
> Oh
> well. Point any way and talk to 2mtr SSB. Hi Hi
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On
> Behalf Of Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:35 PM
> To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] Dish for 10 GHz?
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 16:12 -0600, Cathy James wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have a dish on my roof left over from the previous owners.  I'd like
>> to know if it can be readily modified for 10 GHz.
>>
>> I have a couple of pictures of it that I will be happy to send to
>> anyone willing to comment.  The list won't accept the images as
> attachments.
>>
>> 73,
>> Cathy
>> N5WVR
>
> Almost surely it can though if its too small (like under 10 inches
> diameter), its not worth the bother. The mount needs to tilt it to the
> horizon and the feed horn may need to be changed, depending on what's 
> there.
> Its probably an offset dish and the geometry isn't so obvious, but W1GHZ 
> has
> an online tutorial on offset fed dishes.
>
> Or is it a wire mesh or welded wire dish for 2.4 GHz data? Then it will
> probably be too open for 10 GHz...
> --
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ,
> All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
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