The dishes are popular with the microwave folks here in Minnesota but the LNA is replaced with say a 3,5,10,24 ghz "stuff". The Direcwav does have uplink and that I could not speak to. For me it would be worth saving. I found a wide band DTV dish for free at a garage sale. Hope to put the wide band up (I use DirectTV) and pull down the single feed. Then I would have another dish to convert, hope fully to 10 GHZ.
Not a direct answer the P3E but the dishes are useable where I here the sat will be.
Dave WB7DRU Burnsville, MN
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Greg D. Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 10:25 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] DirecWav satellite internet useful?
Hi folks,
My neighbor appears to be tossing their Hughes "DirecWav" satellite internet dish and associated dish-mounted electronics. By any stroke of luck, is this stuff reasonably convertable for use with any of the the proposed P3E up or downlinks? I have no idea what frequency it runs. It appears to have both transmit and receive capabilities (based on the warnings posted). There are no model numbers that I can find on the electronics.
I've got my AO-40 S-band receive setup, but nothing for the higher bands.
Thanks,
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