In Reply to: Re: DSS Dish antenna posted by gregz on February 17, 2001 at 16:15:13:
: there's a big diff between 800 MHz and 2Ghz, let alone upto 30Ghz. At those shorter freqs you can reflect and focus it like light. but when your focus dish has such a slight curve (compared to wave length of 850 Mhz (33cm)) you're doing nothing but bouncing trash around.
: For the amount of energy you're willing to put into it, you would be better off building a 3 segment yagi, which would get a forward to rear ratio of about 3:1. while your dish would probly not produce any desireable results because your focal length has not even taken into acount wave length.
: I too would love to find a use for my dorment mini sat dish. and i laugh everytime i see those cable TV commercials with the women serving a turkey dinner out of a sat dish.
: To The With The Cobra CB Why Bother Trashing Peoples Tv's ??