[NLRS] 23GHz 2 foot MaComm dishes available again

[aa9il at sbcglobal.net]

Hi all

I picked up a couple of the dishes/white boxes years ago - sold
off the dishes but kept the white box and their guts.  The 'guts'
were two MACOM gun sources - one for RX and one for TX.  The
RX could transmit as well by modulating the PSU line.
Anyway, I have thought of using these for short range
Q's during contests.  Also have picked up some Alpha
sources with a rx diode, gunn, and varactor - a cheap
way to get on the air - just add psu and a 30mhz wbfm IF.
Anyway, if there is work on these, please include me in
the email as I am going to be working on getting these
up and running.  Got my start in wbfm and its still a
quick/easy way to add a band.

73 de AA9IL
Mike


--- On Sat, 8/1/09, WBØLJC <wb0ljc at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: WBØLJC <wb0ljc at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] 23GHz 2 foot MaComm dishes available again
> To: n0nas at amsat.org, "NLRS List" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 11:46 PM
> 
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I am interested in having some more people get on 24 G
> WBFM. I have two woeking systems, although after today
> one of them seems to working much better than the other.
> 
> I know there are a number of 24 G Gunn sources sitting in
> junk boxes. It would be fun to have them on the air. Just
> think
> of all the 10 G WBFM equipment that is also sitting in our
> junk boxes.
> With the dishes you have and the gunn sources it is easy to
> get
> 24 G WBFM going.  I hope it happens. I am willing to
> help.
> 
> 73, Gary  WBØLJC
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Reed" <n0nas at amsat.org>
> To: "NLRS List" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:07 PM
> Subject: [NLRS] 23GHz 2 foot MaComm dishes available again
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > A friend of mine has a dozen of these dishes
> available. These are a 2
> > foot prime focus dish with button-hook waveguide feed
> for 23-24GHz. I
> > haven't seen this batch but previous dishes mostly
> came with the
> > radomes. They are basically free for the hauling, FOB
> North St Paul, MN.
> > If I have to ship them, I expect the cost to be in the
> $30-$50 range due
> > to the 30" or larger box that would be needed. Let me
> know if you are
> > interested.
> >
> > John W0ZQ suggested early this year that maybe NLRS
> could kick-start
> > more activity on 24GHz by starting with 24GHz
> Gunnplexers and seeing
> > what we could do with them, sort of by recycling some
> of the old 10GHz
> > Gunnplexer systems still in NLRS-land. If we want to
> try it, these
> > dishes would be way more than the minimum needed. I
> also have some
> > others that have gunnplexers and maybe they could be
> used for the
> > project. I think there are a number of our members who
> have 24GHz
> > Gunnplexers squirreled away in a drawer somewhere.
> Should we do
> > something with them?
> > 73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.
> 
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