Hi all...Per Gary's note the dish I'm using is similar, but slightly different...   and, was resurrected from the junk pile at W0AUS's...  It's aluminum and 81 x 86 cm (approx) & still in use.  Even with the smaller beam width, still reasonably easy to point. I'm using the W1GHZ dual freq feed horn.

Having a lot of uW fun in the desert down here....  monthly activity days (10 & some 24).....highlight is working Mt. Laguna in California from Apache Junction, AZ at 283 miles.   (I have come to better appreciate the flatlands of MN & WI as down here there is always a mountain in the way??)

See you in the spring....73s   Jim  K0KFC

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 12:53 PM Gary <wb0ljc@comcast.net> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have two STEEL 75 cm oblong dishes that I can't use. Too heavy for roving. They have most of the hardware and the feed arm. However, there are no feeds. Free for pick up.

I am looking for a 75 cm aluminum dish. This is the dish that Jon, KØFQA, sold many years ago. Many of us bought them from Jon. The dishes were made of thin aluminum so I don't know how many survived. Jim, KFC uses one on his dual band setup. There are many to be found on the internet from China. They are dirt cheap. Unfortunately, I don't need a thousand or more of them. The dish I had was left by the road side a number of years ago at the Kiester site. Very windy that morning. I was in a hurry to leave and forgot I had moved it to the right side of my car out of the wind and didn't put it back in the trunk when I left. I only realized it was gone a few sites later when I didn't see it in the trunk while setting up. I'm sure there was an aluminum UFO flying around the area that weekend. If I hadn't been roving alone another rover may have noticed.

Here are a couple of images from the internet to jog everyone's memory.

These look just like the dish I was using.

If anyone has one that has survived and is willing to part with it please let me know.

73, Gary WBØLJC

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