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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/IPKESKJPYZIDI4II2LBYFWCVVGTSYRY3/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "IPKESKJPYZIDI4II2LBYFWCVVGTSYRY3", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/IPKESKJPYZIDI4II2LBYFWCVVGTSYRY3/", "sender": { "address": "oh2aue (a) sral.fi", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Michael Fletcher", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: [Mw] Dish reflector density (and Kaguya)", "date": "2007-12-15T15:30:46Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Loren Moline WA7SKT wrote:\n\n> Hello,\n\nHi,\n\nCC:ing AMSAT-BB in case somebody wants to quit\nthe keyboard and do something cool for a change ;-)\n\n> Is there anything that says what the maximum space or hole size in a not solid dish should be.\n\nDepends on the thickness and hence fringe effects (the cutoff\nis half a wavelength, but for all practical reasons (the\n\"thinness\" of the material), you can take 10 - 20 % of the\nfreespace wavelength.\n\n> I have been told that a barbque grill antenna works better if you cover with 1/4\" or smaller hardware cloth adhering to the curvature of the original dish shape.\n\nWell, the grill design is linearly polarised, so for\ncircular polarisation (with a suitable feed also),\nmaking the reflector more complete can give you up to\n3 dB gain (circular over linear).\n\nTonight I used a +- 45 degree linearily polarised\nW-LAN patch, outer dimensions 8 * 10 cm, with a\ncommercial preamp specified at 1.2 dB NF; solid\ncopy with the naked ear, even through double glazing\n(i.e. the antenna is seeing a lot of ambient noise\ntemperature too).\n\nThis thing is extremely difficult to make non-audible\nby the ear. I just did pretty much the ultimate test\nand used a QBFH omnidirectional: no problem hearing\nKaguya by the ear.\n\nWhat this means is you can hear the 2.2 GHz carrier\nfrom the moon whilst mobile, no DSP, SDR, nothing...\n\n> Loren \n\nMichael, OH2AUE\n\n-- \n\"Life is too short for Sudoku\"\n\n", "attachments": [] }