Govdeals is a good place to watch sometimes. They have lots of radio and test equipment go through the site. Usually none of it close enough to me though:-(
I agree it looks like a receive setup but I wasn't sure and was taking their word for it.
73's
RoD KD0XX
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@AMSAT.Org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@AMSAT.Org]On Behalf Of Bruce Bostwick Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 5:10 PM To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Interesting Microwave transceiver and dish
They look like residential grade C-band and Ku-band dishes with LNB- type feeds to me, am I missing something?
*Transceivers* typically have a lot stouter cable or waveguide going to the feed, might have radiation symbols on the feed housing along with printed warnings not to get between the feed and the dish, and often a fence around the dish to keep people out of the near field. Those dishes are on GEO-style mounts, without az/el servos as far as I can tell, and C-band and Ku-band GEO sat uplinks tend to require pretty respectable amounts of power, and usually rather noticeable precautions are required for safety on those. (The mobile uplink truck a friend of mine used to operate used a stack of two 600W TWT amps to get to sat uplinks on Ku-band analog.)
Nice KTI mesh C-band dish, though, wouldn't mind getting hold of that if I had room in the backyard .. :D
On May 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Stargate wrote:
I wish I was in a position to buy these but I thought someone on here might be.
http://www.govdeals.com/eas/itmdisplay.cfm?itemid=330&acctid=345
I have no connection to this site or the item, I just thought it might make someone a good uplink/downlink system.
Heck, I don't even know what frequency their for:-)
73's
RoD KD0XX
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