[MLB-WIRELESS] AusStar Antenna?

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 10:39 AM 5/03/2004, Jamie Lovick wrote:


>Hi,
>
>It's a Satellite dish with LNBF by the sounds of it. Assuming it's a
>standard 65cm dish, probably worth around $0 to $50 second hand,
>depending on who's selling and who's buying.
>
>Great for Satellite TV, not much good for anything else. It is possible
>to swap the LNBF for something like a Bi-Quad or Di-Pole and use the
>reflector for wireless, but there are better solutions.

Yes, you can.  Look up some of the information on receiving AO-40 from the 
ham sites to get some ideas for feeds for these antennas.  Most of the 
AO-40 stuff is circularly polarised - they often feed the dishes with a 
small LHCP helix (3 or so turns).

73 de VK3JED
http://vkradio.com


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