[MLB-WIRELESS] AusStar Antenna?

[Steven Haigh]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Langdon, VK3JED" <vk3jed at optushome.com.au>
To: "Jamie Lovick" <jalovick at doof.org>; "Grant McHerron" 
<grant at mcherron.com>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] AusStar Antenna?


> At 10:39 AM 5/03/2004, Jamie Lovick wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>It's a Satellite dish with LNBF by the sounds of it. Assuming it's a
>>standard 65cm dish, probably worth around $0 to $50 second hand,
>>depending on who's selling and who's buying.
>>
>>Great for Satellite TV, not much good for anything else. It is possible
>>to swap the LNBF for something like a Bi-Quad or Di-Pole and use the
>>reflector for wireless, but there are better solutions.
>
> Yes, you can.  Look up some of the information on receiving AO-40 from the 
> ham sites to get some ideas for feeds for these antennas.  Most of the 
> AO-40 stuff is circularly polarised - they often feed the dishes with a 
> small LHCP helix (3 or so turns).
>
> 73 de VK3JED
> http://vkradio.com
>
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