Difference between revisions of "Using ex-satellite dishes"
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==Feeds for dishes== | ==Feeds for dishes== | ||
Revision as of 07:56, 23 April 2018
Your local household waste disposal area (tip) is a great source of parabolic dishes which are very usable on the microwave amateur bands - and it's environmentally friendly to re-cycle them!
The picture shows a recycled Sky mini dish being used on 5.6GHz - the feed is a WA5VJB log-periodic PCB feed http://www.wa5vjb.com/products1.html – these are available in the UK from G4DDK. http://www.g4ddk.com/Prices.html
Finding the feed point
The easiest way to find the feed point is just carefully replace the LNB with the feed or replacement LNB in exactly the same position. However this is not always possible - but luckily there are a great number of pages on the web showing how to find the point:
Online calculator to find the feed point of an offset dish: http://www.satsig.net/pointing/finding-dish-offset-angle.htm
http://www.satsig.net/22-deg-offset-dish.htm
http://www.john-legon.co.uk/offsetdish.htm
http://www.ntms.org/files/Nov2015/Fun_with_Off-set_dish.pdf
This page has a calculator for parabolic dishes (not many of those at your local tip): http://www.qsl.net/pa2ohh/jsparabolic.htm
Feeds for dishes
Excellent design for 3.4 and 5.6GHz by Brian G4NNS: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g4nns/FeedHorn.html