Greg -

Many early satellite TVRO systems (cable head ends and early home users) - that used that used 10 foot BUD (Big Ugly Dish) used an IF of 70 MHz -- so reception of "S" band was fairly straight forward.

Problem with current commercial satellite transmit systems at your local gasoline station or car dealership (on their roof) -- is that these systems are largely at C or KU ----- and not S band. (I was hoping for an L/S transponder on Eagle -- sounds like that is not happening -- left with P3E system).

I have not recently looked at the DEM or SSB Electronics offerings - but 2 m and 70 cm were their preferred rig frequencies.

Greg w9gb

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Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:42:35 -0700 "Greg D.", KO6TH [amsat-bb] Re: S Band UP To: amsat-bb

Are there any upconverters from 6 meters to 13cm? Or, from 6m to 23cm?

My equipment for that band gets very little use (10w and a dipole is all I have, and there's not much Es out here in the west). That also solves the problem with the downlink IFs, with 6m being neither of the popular ones.

I did some browsing and Googling, and didn't find anything.

Greg KO6TH