On Jun 18, 2008, at 2:46 AM, i8cvs wrote:
A 3 to 4 foot dish with a 2400/144 MHz downconverter in the focal point and connected to any old 144 MHz CW/SSB receiver mounted on the balcony was sufficient to receive a nice downlink from all over the world by many users
Yeah, and most of us, especially new hams, just happen to have a 3 to 4 foot dish laying around.
73s John AA5JG
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At 21:02 18/06/2008, you wrote:
On Jun 18, 2008, at 2:46 AM, i8cvs wrote:
A 3 to 4 foot dish with a 2400/144 MHz downconverter in the focal point and connected to any old 144 MHz CW/SSB receiver mounted on the balcony was sufficient to receive a nice downlink from all over the world by many users
Yeah, and most of us, especially new hams, just happen to have a 3 to 4 foot dish laying around.
73s John AA5JG
HEO KIT...
60 cm offset dish... FREE at local refuse site, thousands of them being thrown away every year in most non third-world countries
Down convertor was about $25 off ebay,.. OK may be a bit more now 144 Mhz radio you already have
total cost to receive AO40.. probably $50 ( about £25 UK )
RIP AO-40... one day... in another era... it may do an AO-7 "resurrection"..... You can only hope!
http://www.g4dmf.co.uk/dish/60cm_1.jpg
60cm dish on work-mate... John G4DMF
I think this is a silly argument, there is a time and place for both HEOs and LEOs, and each has it's good and bad points. However, I love antenna pictures, so I'll see your junkyard dish with http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/DSC00377.jpg and raise you an Arrow on a tripod http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/DSC00379.jpg . These are from my VP2EAG operation in 2003.
73, Drew KO4MA
Ahh, I think I'm gonna have to trump you with my Bike Mobile setup (not satellite related, but it did make September, 08 in the CQ calendar). http://www.qrz.com/callsign/KE5GDB
Also, my old satellite setup worked pretty well. I had to do a little photoshopping so you can see the antenna very well. http://log.thathamkid.com/pics/FMSetup.jpg
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner < glasbrenner@mindspring.com> wrote:
I think this is a silly argument, there is a time and place for both HEOs and LEOs, and each has it's good and bad points. However, I love antenna pictures, so I'll see your junkyard dish with http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/DSC00377.jpg and raise you an Arrow on a tripod http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/DSC00379.jpg . These are from my VP2EAG operation in 2003.
73, Drew KO4MA
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