On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:49:31 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
wrote:

1. What frequency
2. What is the dish diameter
3. What is the dish focal length to diameter ratio (F/D)

I am not avoiding questions, just those that appear irrelevant,

20 postings to get to the point (not unanticipated, however) which Art
calls "irrelevant."

As for those answers?
1 160 metres upto 2 metres, tunable

2 2 metres
Hence the wholesale disregard for first principles in size vs.
wavelength. Elementary analysis need not go any further when failure
is so obviously designed in.

3 Doesn't have a focal length, it is an end fed ( series connection)
helix antenna.
-Well, maybe not obvious to everyone.-

But why don't we chalk this design up to S U C C E S S and call it a
thread? If this bier gets anymore wreaths tossed onto it, it will
kill the pallbearers.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC