[MLB-WIRELESS] Old Austar Antennas

[Nigel]

Will

I think you have one of these
http://holden.customer.netspace.net.au/antenna/

mod instructions here
http://apache.airnet.com.au/~fastinfo/wireless/PacMon/

antenna site
http://www.pacwireless.com/products/directional.shtml

I have made a number of these.

cutting the plastic is the hardest part (just use a hacksaw blade by hand)

Cheers

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Wil 
  To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Old Austar Antennas


    They are not the solid sat type dishes unfortunally, but look more like:
    http://host219.ipowerweb.com/~freenet-/oscommerce-2.2ms2/catalog/images/ANT-GRID19LN_small.jpg 

    Perhaps I should get a look at it and see if its got any markings. Just curious if anyone knew anything off hand. Thanks for the help so far.

    All I know is they were installed to get a direct connection to the antenna on the mountian, and look like the supplied pic. Now Hobart gets actual sat coverage, there are oodles of left over ones around. It would be great if they could be made to work! 

    Cheers

    melbwireless at wireless.org.au



    On 1/3/06, Steven Haigh < netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
      http://www.crc.id.au/galaxy.mpg

      > They work very nicely.  You may need to remove all the old electronics 
      > from the downconverter and just use the passive part of the 
      > antenna, if it is that model.....some models have just passive so they
      > are set to go.
      >
      > can someone on list  point wil to the movie on modifying the 18dbi
      > conifer for an example for him? 
      >
      >
      > Mark
      >
      >
      >
      > Wil wrote:
      >
      >> Does anyone know if its possible to make an old austar antenna work
      >> with wifi?
      >>
      >> They were used in Hobart for a few years because they couldn't get 
      >> satellite because it was out of the footprint, so if you could see the
      >> top of the mountian, you could use a wireless connection to get the TV.
      >>
      >> They look like parabolic antennas, but not sure if they will work. 
      >>
      >> Thanks for the help
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