I am new at this and would like to find the plans to build a simple homebrew antenna to be able to use satellites. I know there are probably several so can you direct me to some of the simple and easiest and best? THANKS
--- On Mon, 3/29/10, Larry Lucas lawrencelucas@verizon.net wrote:
From: Larry Lucas lawrencelucas@verizon.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Antenna To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Received: Monday, March 29, 2010, 12:27 AM I am new at this and would like to find the plans to build a simple homebrew antenna to be able to use satellites. I know there are probably several so can you direct me to some of the simple and easiest and best? THANKS
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ARRL's Antenna Book provide some ideas. I've got a copy of an early edition and I found instructions for one satellite antenna that I might try to build.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 02:27 -0400, Larry Lucas wrote:
I am new at this and would like to find the plans to build a simple homebrew antenna to be able to use satellites. I know there are probably several so can you direct me to some of the simple and easiest and best? THANKS
Simple. Go and find a page on WA5VJB "Cheap Yagi" designs, and build a 2m and 70cm one sharing a boom, 90 degrees apart. Build a wee diplexer (HB9ABX's design is good) if you want to feed both aerials to the same radio, or just work split.
Dead easy. A good, fun weekend project that you can make out of stuff you have lying around (or maybe a quick trip to the local DIY store).
Gordon MM0YEQ
Look for the design from DK7ZB they are easy to build and perform great.
Look at the following URL: http://www.qsl.net/dk7zb/start1.htm
73 Jan PE0SAT
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