[MLB-WIRELESS] Galaxy Antennas & the "black box"

[Shane Chubb]

Andy
you mention "dish" - do you have a Black dish approximately 80-90 cm
across (at widest point).  if so I suspect you may have an Austar dish,
which are still in use.  I also have one, however it has a box which is
an 11Ghz convertor for their TV service.  These can be modified to
opperate on 2.4Ghz also  Although the entire unit is discarded and only
the dish and it's support arm are used.

Or did you not mean a "dish" as such and simply used that word to
describe the grid?

Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Freeman [mailto:Andy.Freeman at jc.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 12:00 PM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Galaxy Antennas & the "black box"


I scrounged a galaxy setup from a friend and it is marked as follows...

"dish"
Pacific Monolithics
Sunnyvale California
Integrated Down Converter
US Patent 5,015,968

"the black box"
Jerrold 
General Instrument
Addressable Baseband Converter
Model 5508w

Now this dish looks different to the "how to modify" pictures that I've
seen on the melbwireless web site links.  Did Geelong get a different
type to Canberra and Perth?

What is the "dBi" of this model and/or is it worth modifying for my
wireless deployment?

Is there something "cool & geeky" I can do with the "black box"?
(be polite please!) 
 


Andy.

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