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Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

craigm wrote:
Look at the size of the dishes to answer your question.

Why operate within Ku-band at all, if the C-band link is more reliable?

Well, not really, because our Ku-band dish is the same size as the C-band...

I have a 40cm plastic dish which receives our national services
very satisfactorily (except, perhaps, during deluges and solar
occultations). I doubt that it would have enough gain at C-band
to do anything useful here.

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Richard L.