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Dave Typinski wrote:
Anyone have any ideas about what one might do with a television receive-only (TVRO) antenna? The thing is 10' diameter and it's mine for the price of dismantling it and hauling it out of the present owner's back yard. I'm thinking radio astronomy. Might be nice to make my own radio map of the galaxy. I'm guessing that this would work okay somewhere between 1 and 10 GHz... which means making a feed horn... which is easy enough to do. What else could I do with this antenna? Other than covering it in polyethylene sheet to make a really big bird bath... ================================== Possible usage: 1) EME amateur comms 2) WiFi low power experiments (provided there is line of sight freedom) I remember having seen a web site with reports (incl photographs) that some youngsters bridged a 125 km path using off the shelf equipment and dishes having a size like yours. Hopefully you don't have just the dish but also a mounting pedestal and perhaps even a motorised system . Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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