Seems like Arecibo might have around 36dB gain at 28MHz where it is a
28 wavelength dish, at least according to scaling numbers I found on a
random webpage.

Not bad. Seems that a 3.5 wavelength dish (3.5MHz Arecibo) still has a
bit of gain too. 15dB?

I wish I had 15dBd gain on 3.5MHz... don't exactly want it straight up,
though.

73,
Dan
N3OX

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wrote:

Seems like Arecibo might have around 36dB gain at 28MHz where it is a
28 wavelength dish, at least according to scaling numbers I found on a
random webpage.

Not bad. Seems that a 3.5 wavelength dish (3.5MHz Arecibo) still has a
bit of gain too. 15dB?

I wish I had 15dBd gain on 3.5MHz... don't exactly want it straight up,
though.

That's OK. Just hoist up one mountain, lower the other, and rotate
the whole dish/valley onto its side. Paul Bunyan would have thought
nothing of it.

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On 22 May 2006 12:46:08 -0700, "
wrote:

Seems like Arecibo might have around 36dB gain at 28MHz where it is a
28 wavelength dish, at least according to scaling numbers I found on a
random webpage.

Not bad. Seems that a 3.5 wavelength dish (3.5MHz Arecibo) still has a
bit of gain too. 15dB?

I wish I had 15dBd gain on 3.5MHz... don't exactly want it straight up,
though.

Not to mention the blockage from the feed horn. [g]