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Seems you could take advantage of all the old Ku & C band
receivers,lnbs and other big dish stuff that people are throwing away,
i
remember the reciever tunes a 950-1400 mhz input span or somewhere
close, from the lnb. Should be alot easier to convert one of
these yardsale items than start from scratch. Ive got a bunch of these
setting around & wanted to put one on the 33cm 902-928mhz
amateur tv band, but the satellite starts alittle higher than that so i
put it on hold for now.
Cool, how much are these cheap receivers?
Can you use them for a radio telescope @1420MHz?
These would need to recieve AM mode.

JJ